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CLA NOW

CLA NOW -- August 8, 2007


CLA EFS Project Team Open Sessions:

Breeze Open Sessions:

We wanted to give financial system users, who were unable to attend one or more of the recent EFS Sneak Peeks presentations, an opportunity to view them at one of the following open sessions in a group setting with others from CLA:

Date:  Wednesday, August 15
Time:  2:00-4:00 pm
Location:  101 Walter Library
Session:  (1) Workflow and Approvals, and (2) Reporting

Date:  Monday, August 20
Time:  2:45-4:45 pm
Location:  101 Walter Library
Session:  (3) Grants, and (4) Chart of Accounts and Budgets Expenses,

Date:  Tuesday, August 28
Time:  10:00 am-12:30 pm
Location:  101 Walter Library
Session:  (5) Expenses, (6) Requisitions and Receiving, and (7) Training and Competencies

If one of the above sessions doesn’t work with your schedule, or you missed one of the topics, you still have an opportunity to view the information on line at http://www.finsys.umn.edu/Meetings.html.

Cluster Update and Financial Service Team Recommendations Open Sessions:

The team is also holding open sessions to all interested parties for, in part, a follow-up to the July discussions surrounding financial processes.  We would like to share with you what we propose to be final clustered and non-clustered activities.  In addition, we would like to use these sessions to share with you service team recommendations, including number of service teams, unit groupings within the service teams, dealing with departmental designated financial activities, etc.

Please come to one of the following sessions:

Date:  Monday, August 27
Time:  1:00-2:30 pm
Location:  50 Willey Hall (West bank)

Date:  Thursday, August 30
Time:  9:00-10:30 am
Location:  101 Walter Library (East bank)

IRIS Entry Deadline

The summer session 2007 IRIS entry deadline is Monday, August 20th.  Please make sure to update data for both May session (intersession in IRIS) and Summer session courses, and to review your Outstanding Issues report.  Please contact Pandora Aaron (4-9370, aaron012@umn.edu) if you have any questions. 

Position Management:

Position Management conversion was completed last week.  CLA HR and Fiscal Administration are working on the next steps and data cleanup.  Please watch for further information on new requirements related to Position Management.  Due to new PeopleAdmin requirements related to Position Management, there may be slight delays in posting new requisitions in the PeopleAdmin system.

CLA Effort Coordinators

Statements for FY07 Period 4 are now available at https://ecrt.eresearch.umn.edu/

The Due Date for this Effort Period is Friday, August 24, 2007, to compensate for the change in the statement availability date.

For upcoming Effort Schedule, important dates, best practices and further information please refer to the Effort Homepage: http://www.ospa.umn.edu/effort/

FY07 Q2 and previous periods are locked.


Upcoming Deadlines / Important Dates

Aug. 10

  • 08/06-08/19/07 CLA Payroll cut off 4:30 p.m. for the 8/29/07 pay date.

Aug. 15

  • Breeze Open Session, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., 101 Walter Library

Aug. 20

  • IRIS entry deadline for summer session 2007
  • Breeze Open Session, 2:45 – 4:45 p.m., 101 Walter Library

Aug. 23

  • CLA Financial/HR meeting, 8:30 a.m., MN Population Ctr., 50 Willey Hall

Aug. 24

  • Effort Certification Due Date

Aug. 27

  • EFS Open Session, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m., 50 Willey Hall

Aug. 28

  • Breeze Open Session, 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 101 Walter Library

Aug. 30

  • EFS Open Session, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m., 101 Walter Library

You can find past issues of CLA NOW at: http://www2.cla.umn.edu/admin/now_archive/default.html.
Submit items for CLA NOW to ludow006@umn.edu

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