DFL weekly update - December 10, 2021

Action Items

Complete External Audit Certification for Q2 by Friday, December 10

To ensure the completeness and accuracy of the quarterly Controller's report on the campus' external audit activities, please help us identify the campus' external audit activities. The Controller's Office is sending a separate email with additional information to DFLs with known external audit activity. By Friday, December 10, 2021, please submit the materials below to Yohei Azuma at yazuma@berkeley.edu:

• All DFLs: External Audit Confirmation Form (You must return the completed External Audit Confirmation Form even if you do not have any external audit activities so we can certify campus responses.)
• DFLs with external audit activities: External Audit Confirmation Template (Include any related documentation with the template, i.e. notification of the commencement of the audit, audit report, etc.)

If you have questions, contact Yohei by email at yazuma@berkeley.edu.

Validate your chartstring for FY2021-22 Productivity Suite assessment by Friday, December 17

IST will process the FY2021-22 Productivity Suite assessment earlier in the fiscal year and prior to the FY23 annual campus budget submission. By Friday, December 17, please validate the chartstring to be debited for your division by reviewing the "PS Funding Model" tab in the PS Assessment Census Data excel file to find your division’s chartstring used in the prior fiscal year. Whether you require an update or keep the same chartstring used last year, please email productivitysuite@berkeley.edu with your division name and confirm your DeptID and Fund by Friday, December 17. If we don’t hear back from you by the deadline, your division will be assessed on the same chartstring used last year. Please direct questions to productivitysuite@berkeley.edu and visit the Productivity Suite Assessment page on the CFO website for more information.

Ensure schedulers check final fall CSIR data by Friday, December 17

Friday, December 17 is the last day schedulers can make changes to their Class Schedule and Instructor Record (CSIR) data for the fall 2021 semester and have data reflected in Cal Answers. Please ensure your schedulers have made all corrections in Student Information Systems (SIS) by then. We recommend that throughout the year, you ask your department schedulers to review their CSIR data in SIS and Cal Answers as it becomes available, in order to ensure that it is as accurate as possible. This data is used by the UC Office of the President and the State Legislature, as well as internally for space and instructional planning, the Faculty FTE Call, and TAS allocations. If your schedulers need guidance on how to best enter the data, please have them contact Office of Planning & Analysis Research Analyst Kira Blaisdell-Sloan or Beatriz Brando with questions at opa-csir@berkeley.edu.

Report year-end gift recording and receipting by Monday, January 10

The deadline for gifts to be received in the Gift Services office to be counted for the calendar year 2021 is Monday, January 10, 2022. Information and instructions are available on the 2021 Calendar Year End flyer or on Berkeley’s advancement intranet Eureka; to review it log into Eureka and visit the Calendar Year End page or the frequently asked questions.

The key changes include:

• Hand delivery of gifts to UDAR 4th floor reception is available but discouraged. Please use USPS or Loomis armored service instead. If you plan to hand-deliver, please call (510) 642-1212 in advance to ensure someone can provide you access to the drop-safe.
• Retain and forward those postmarked envelopes, FedEx/UPS mailing envelopes or waybills!
• Do not accept credit card information by phone with intent to transmit to Gift Services for charging. Please have donors call (510) 643-9789 to give by phone.
• Please contact the Gift Services Securities Desk at givesecurities@berkeley.edu before a stock transfer happens to ensure the gift is identified and credited to the donor in a timely manner.

Please contact Gift Services with questions at (510) 643-9789 or gifthelp@berkeley.edu.

Submit SSGPDP fee proposals for 2022-23 by Monday, January 10

UCOP has released the call for SSGPDP fee proposals for the 2022-23 academic year. All new and existing approved SSGPDPs are required to submit an annual fee proposal for review and approval by the President. Proposals are due to the Financial Planning & Analysis team at studentfees@berkeley.edu by Monday, January 10, 2022. The call for proposals, submission documents, and instructions are available on the Make annual fee submission for existing SSGPDP page on the CFO website. Please direct questions to studentfees@berkeley.edu as early as possible prior to the submission deadline.

Submit DeptIDs for inactivation and CF1 changes by Friday, January 14

If you have DeptIDs that you would like inactivated in CalPlan or Chartfield 1 members you would like removed from or added to CalPlan and HCP, please submit requests by 5pm on Friday, January 14. For DeptIDs, please complete the DeptID Planned Inactivation Form. For Chartfield 1 members, please submit a simple list in excel in the format “C1_xxxxxx”. The changes will be implemented in CalPlan and HCP. Please email completed forms to dfl_concierge@berkeley.edu by 5pm on Friday, January 14 and include “DeptID/Chart1 Inactivation” as the subject line.

Submit completed and approved org tree change requests by Tuesday, January 18

We are currently processing approved org changes to the November 1 master org tree for requests submitted by the November 16 deadline. Allowable changes for November include Org Node and DeptID movements within the same division, New DeptIDs, and Org Nodes as well as Description Changes. To avoid the possibility of any data integrity issues during the load of data to CalPlan an exception is in place to process changes requiring moves across divisions already submitted by the November deadline to be completed by January. Org tree change requests can be submitted for review and approval anytime prior to the January 18 deadline, as the Budget and Financial Operations (BFO) team will review requests to approve in advance of when the tree will open. We recommend that you submit your change request form for review as soon as possible to allow time for the BFO team to review your request, follow up with you for any necessary clarification, approve your request, and allow you time to obtain all required signatures before the submission deadline. The time needed to review change requests will vary, depending on the complexity of the request. For more information:

• A high-level summary of the process to approve org tree changes is available on the DFL concierge webpage.
• An overview of the org tree change submission deadlines is available in the Org Tree Submission and Processing Timeline.
• Please review the Org Tree Calendar for the timeline of allowable org tree changes throughout the year.
• Please submit questions and requests for changes to the Org Tree to dfl_concierge@berkeley.edu. Note: If you plan to request an Org Node change or Entity Hierarchy redesign, please contact dfl_concierge@berkeley.edu and explain what you would like to change before completing the request form because these changes are typically more complex and involve longer consultations.

Submit FY23 recharge self-certifications and submit your recharge Permbudg retirement journals by Friday, January 21

• Self-certification recharge forms will be due on Friday, January 21. Divisions will need to submit a recharge self-certification form if they support a recharge unit and the unit charges Contracts and Grants or if the unit plans for a recharge income greater than $500,000 a year. We posted the self-certification form to the recharge section of the CFO website. If you have any questions, please contact the Budget and Financial Operations team at recharge_certification@berkeley.edu.
• As part of the FY23 recharge budget process, we are retiring the PermBudg for recharges because we no longer use it to budget for recharge activities. This is now done in CalPlan. A list of the current PermBudg balances by division are available in the file at the bottom of the recharge section of the CFO website. Please review the balances and create PermBudg journals to net your current PermBudg to zero for each account. Once this is done, email your PermBudg journals identification names to recharge_certification@berkeley.edu to be posted. If you have any questions, please contact the Budget and Financial Operations team at recharge_certification@berkeley.edu.

Submit Course Materials and Services Fee Proposals by Friday, January 28

The call for proposals for Course Materials and Services Fees (CMSF) for FY2022-23 has been released. The proposal form to establish a new CMSF or to increase an existing CMSF, relevant campus policy, and guidance on completing the form, is available on the Course Materials and Services Fees page. Completed proposals are due to studentfees@berkeley.edu by Friday, January 29. Final recommendations and approvals will be made in the spring. Please share this call widely with department leaders in your units. Contact studentfees@berkeley.edu with any questions.

Submit Miscellaneous Student Fee Proposals by Friday, January 28

The call for proposals for Miscellaneous Student Fees (MSF) for FY2022-23 has been released. The proposal form to establish a new MSF, increase an existing MSF, or consolidate multiple fees into one MSF, as well as additional information on MSF policies and procedures, is available on the Miscellaneous Student Fees page. Completed proposals are due to studentfees@berkeley.edu by Friday, January 28. Final recommendations and approvals will be made in late spring. Please share this call widely with department leaders in your units. Contact studentfees@berkeley.edu with any questions.

Submit Reserve Analysis templates by Friday, February 11, 2022

The reserve analysis templates are in your division folder, in a folder called "Reserve Analysis Template" under the FY2022-23 Budget Process folder. A copy of your completed template from last year is also included, for reference. We’ve scheduled two reserve analysis workshops, one on Friday, December 17, 2021, and one on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. We invited DFLs through bCal, so please accept one of the invites if you plan to attend. The same material will be covered in both sessions. Our office will also be offering six office hours every week starting on January 5, 2022, so there will be a chance to ask questions. Please sign-up for the office hours ahead of time. More information, including the template guidelines, is available on the Reserve Analysis page. Your completed reserve analysis template is due to the Financial Planning and Analysis team at dfl_concierge@berkeley.edu on Friday, February 11, 2022.