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Agenda for the Core-CT Project Financials User Group Meeting covering various topics such as GL, AR/Billing, Year-End Preparation, and SP-2 impacts. Includes FAQ's and issues.
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STATE OF CONNECTICUTCore-CT Project Financials User Group MeetingAR / GL / Billing February 2005
Agenda • GL • SP-2 Impacts • Reviewing PO Encumbrances • GL Reporting • Year End Preparation • AR/Billing • SP-2 Impacts • Transition from AR to Billing • Closing Periods Update • Housekeeping BREAK • Billing FAQ's and Issues • EPM Impacts - SP-2
Acknowledgements • SP2 User Acceptance Testing Participants • SP2 User Validation • Billing User Acceptance Testing Participants • Billing User Validation
Agenda GL • SP-2 Impacts • New Run Controls • GL Reporting/Inquiry • Grants: Tying Revenues and Expenditures • Commitment Control vs. General Ledger • Encumbrance Accounting Entries • Budget Reference vs. Budget Period • PO Accounting Entries • Year End Preparation
SP2 Impacts • Budget Transaction Detail Report • GL Trial Balance Report • GL Activity Report • Budgets Overview
Budget Transaction Detail Report Do not Select
Trial Balance Report Inactive Chartfields Available
GL Activity Report Blank From To Values OK
Budgets Overview Wildcards OK
GL Reporting / Inquiry • Grants: Linking Revenue and Appropriation Budgets • Commitment Control vs. General Ledger
Grants • Revenue Budget Inquiry • Recognized Revenue • Collected Revenue • Appropriation Budget Inquiry • Budgeted Amount • Expenditures
Commitment Control vs. General Ledger • Ledger Characteristics • Reports • Balances
General Ledger Ledgers: MOD_ACCRL, MOD_CASH, ACCRUAL Balances by Period (Periods 1-12) No Encumbrances Posting Journal Entries update Ledgers Detail Account and Department Values SSJs, ONLs, DCs, PCs Accounting Date / Fiscal Year Commitment Control Ledgers: KK_APPROP, ALLOT, AGY, PRJ Balances YTD (Budget Period 2005) Encumbrances Budget Check updates Ledgers Roll-up Account and Department Values Budget Journals Budget Date / Budget Period Ledger Characteristics
Reports / Inquiries Commitment Control> Review Budget Activities> Budget Reports • Trial Balance of Appropriations • Budget Status Report Commitment Control> Review Budget Activities> Budget Inquiries • Budget Transaction Details EPM Reporting Tools> PS nVision> Define Report Request • CFSR
Reports / Inquiries General Ledger> General Reports • Trial Balance • Expenditure Detail Report • Journal Entry Detail • GL Activity General Ledger> Journals> Process Journals • Detail and Summary Revenue • Cash Trial Balance Report General Ledger> Review Journal Ledger Data • Journal • Ledger
Encumbrance Accounting Entries • Budget Reference vs. Budget Period • PO Accounting Entries
Budget Reference Chartfield Value Entered Online Determines which pool of funds are being used for this transaction. Where is the money coming from? Budget Period Calculated based on Budget Date 7/01/2004-6/30/2005 = Budget Period 2005 Determines which Budget Year the transaction will be posted to. When is the transaction recorded? Bud Ref vs. Bud Period
PO Accounting Entries Q: Is this PO Encumbering Funds in the Current Budget Period?
PO Accounting Entries Q: Is this PO Encumbering Funds in the Current Budget Period? A: Yes. See entry for Budget Period 2005.
PO Accounting Entries Q: Is this PO Encumbering Funds in the Current Budget Period?
PO Accounting Entries Q: Is this PO Encumbering Funds in the Current Budget Period? A: No. Budget Period for all transactions is 2004.
PO Accounting Entries Q: Is this PO Encumbering Funds in the Current Budget Period?
PO Accounting Entries Q: Is this PO Encumbering Funds in the Current Budget Period? A: No. Encumbrances for Budget Period 2005 have been fully reversed.
Year-End Preparation • Review Agency Budgets Budgets Overview Inquiry
Budgets Overview ABC10000 ABC10000
Budgets Overview Look for potential issues that may require attention, prior to year-end.
Budgets Overview Payroll?
Budgets Overview What type of transaction would cause this? Drill down.
Year-End Preparation • Review UnMatched POs • Review UnSourced Reqs • Review Transactions in Budget Error
Year-End Preparation • Review Trial Balance Reports • Confirm all General Ledger journal entries have been edited and posted to the General Ledger. • EPM> CT_CORE_FIN_GL_JRNL_ERRORS • EPM> CT_CORE_FIN_GL_VALID_JRNLS
AR/Billing • SP-2 Impacts • Transition from AR to Billing • Closing Periods Update • Housekeeping • Open Items • OA Payments • Auto-Matching • Maintenance Worksheets • Billing FAQ's and Issues
Critical Reminders • Check your open items before direct journaling deposits • Don’t unpost an item if the payment has been applied • Keep your deposit processing current SP-2 Impacts • Payment Worksheets
AR/Billing Transition Agencies can no longer Direct Journal payments from: External Customers GIRO payments Federal Receivables ONLY miscellaneous cash deposits can be Direct Journaled Agencies should no longer issue or accept pre-printed CO-608 State Transfer Invoice forms, except from DOIT and DAS Fleet Operations Agencies should issue or accept only system-generated invoices, with the exception of DOIT and DAS Fleet Operations own system-generated invoices
AR/Billing Transition Users won’t have to separate payments according to type. A portion of a Deposit can be applied to an open Item The remainder can be Direct Journaled, if it is miscellaneous cash Agencies will create Bills for: External Customers Expenditure Transfer Invoices Service Transfer Invoices Grant Transfers Federal Receivables Agencies can use Payment Predictor for: State Customers External Customers Federal Customers
AR/Billing Transition If you need to credit an Item that was created in AR prior to Billing go live, users should Credit and then enter a New Bill. If you need to credit an Item that was created in Billing, users can Adjust Bill Lines or the Entire Bill using the Credit/Rebill function. Users should not use Spreadsheet Journals or Online Journals to correct accounting errors for Items or Bills. Users should use Spreadsheet Journals or Online Journals to correct accounting errors for Direct Journals.
AR • Collections • Maintenance • Payment Predictor (Auto Maintenance) • Auto Maintenance matches debits and credits under a Customer ID in AR so users do not have to manually match them up on a Payment or Maintenance worksheet • Auto Maintenance will not match items if there is more than one item for the same amount under one Customer ID for a Business Unit
AR> Collections • Before Issuing Customer Statements, Dunning Letters or Overdue Charges • Research Outstanding Balances • Online • Aging Report
AR> Collections> Reports> Aging Reports> Aging Detail by Unit