Current
Usability Task Force
Projects
FUSS (Financial
Usability & System
Solutions) Group
• Focus
on Reports:
Three new Focus on Reports
Sessions have been published
and are available
for
viewing on the IS Reports
web site:
o Session 11: BU_Budget
vs Actual by Revenue
Project
o Session 12: LD_Labor Suspense Detail Report
o Session 13: LD_Labor Schedule Hierarchy Report
• FUSS Initiatives
o The Award and Cash
Management class has
been handed over by FUSS
to central offices for
final review and roll-out.
The class is built on
the
ground work laid by the
recent redesign of the
Processing
Funds web
page, and will help employees
understand what their
responsibilities are
in this area and how
to carry out those responsibilities,
from receipt of funds
through reporting.
o A new report tab “Revenue Project Managers” is currently
being developed for the GL_Revenue Project Relationships report that
will list Revenue Projects and their managers.
PI Reporting
Usability Group
The issues that affect
PI accurate reporting were
identified by the PI Reporting
Usability Group, and have
been taken to Oracle, who
is working with a multi-university
group, spear-headed by
the University of Virginia,
to resolve the major issues.
We are cautiously optimistic
that the following issues
will be resolved when encumbrances
are generated for the fiscal
year 2006-07 budget period:
• correcting non-12-month
encumbrances
• correctly encumbering Graduate Teaching and Graduate Research Assistant
salaries
• generating labor encumbrances that are consistent with the sponsor’s
budget
period
In anticipation of these
changes, the PI Reporting
Usability Group has designed
a series of executive level
reports that provide PIs
with more easily understandable
data to aid in evaluation,
analysis, and decision
making. A new Funding Summary
report will roll up budget,
actual, and encumbrances
to categories that more
closely resemble the way
the PI submits/relates
to their budgets. A more
streamlined PI Expenditure
Detail report will provide
detailed expenses, with
references to tie to the
PI budget categories. A prototype of
these two reports has been
developed and is currently
being piloted by the team.
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