financial services news

Financial Services is offering its annual Advantage Year End Training Class.  The class will cover important year-end deadline dates, tips and resources for departments.  The class will be offered on Tempe Campus on May 24, 2012 from 2:30 - 4:00 in the Computing Commons Auditorium.  You may enroll in the Advantage Year End Training Class (Course Code ASUOPS2640) on the LMS website.

*** UPDATE - DASHBOARD DATA NOW CORRECT ***

Between 2:00 PM on Friday, May 11th and noon on Monday, May 14th there was a data discrepancy between the ASU Dashboards and the Data Warehouse.  Any Dashboard information viewed during that timeframe may not be accurate and should be reviewed.  Again, as of noon on Monday, May 14th Dashboard data is again synchronized with the Data Warehouse.

If you have any questions please contact dashboards@asu.edu.

The Advantage fiscal year-end calendars for FY2012 are now posted on the Financial Services website. A condensed version of the calendar with critical departmental deadlines has been posted in addition to the traditional year-end calendar.

If you have any questions, please contact your Financial Services accountant.

The April Advantage month closed on the evening of May 7th.
If you have any questions, please contact Advantage-Q.

Payroll and ERE distribution for the pay period ended April 29th were processed in PeopleSoft on Friday, May 4th.  It is expected that the transactions will interface into Advantage during the overnight process Friday evening and will be available for review on Saturday, May 5th.

If you have any questions, please contact Advantage-Q.

*** UPDATE - DISTRIBUTION COMPLETE ON FRIDAY, MAY 4TH ***

Payroll and ERE distribution for the pay period ended April 29th will not be processed in PeopleSoft until Friday, May 4th.  An update will be posted here once distribution is complete on Friday. 

As a result of this delay, the April Advantage month-end close will be postponed to the evening of Monday, May 7th to allow payroll for PPE 4.29 to post in April.

If you have any questions, please contact Advantage-Q.

Financial Services is offering training sessions on the University’s processes for paying employee moving expenses, including which expenses require reporting to Payroll as taxable compensation to the employee.  The information presented at the two sessions will be the same.

The ASU fiscal year 2011 audited financial report is available at http://cfo.asu.edu/fs-annual-financial-reports.  

*** UPDATE - LOAD NOW COMPLETE ***

The RPT_OPEN_ITEMS table in the Financial Data Warehouse (Enterprise 1) did not fully refresh on the evening of April 24th.  The load is complete as of 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 25th.

If you have any questions, please contact Advantage-Q.