DFL weekly update - June 9, 2023

Action Items

Provide feedback on PeopleSoft Expenses: Upcoming demos on June 14 and 15

As part of our effort to provide easy-to-use, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for the campus, we’re currently evaluating our legacy reimbursement system with our existing enterprise solution, BFS Financials. We invite DFLs and folks with relevant knowledge of the reimbursement system to a live demonstration of how PeopleSoft Expenses works. We will demonstrate how to log and submit expenses for hotel, airline, meals, entertainment expenses, and more. Your feedback will help us understand if PeopleSoft Expenses is better, the same, or worse than the functionality of our long-standing legacy reimbursement system.

Please have faculty and staff, payees, approvers, and preparers who currently enter or approve reimbursement requests in the Reimbursement System attend one of the available demo session times. Complete this registration form to attend a session. If you have any questions contact us at controller@berkeley.edu.

Complete External Audit Certification for Q4 by Friday, June 16

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, June 16, 2023, please submit the materials below to gao@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, please contact gao@berkeley.edu.

Submit permanent budget transfers by Friday, June 16

Complete the Permanent Budget Journal Approval Request form to submit permanent budget transfers within your division by Friday, June 16. This includes any rebudgets to your revenue to fulfill these transfers. If you have questions, contact centralresourcemanagement@berkeley.edu with "permanent budget journal approval" in the subject line of your email.

2022-23 Fiscal year close - gift and pledge guidelines

We are reaching out to share this year's fiscal close deadlines, submission guidelines, and contact information published by UDAR's Gift Services and Fund Stewardship & Compliance teams. Please review the flyer on Eureka. Below is a summary of key deadlines for submitting gifts and pledges that are to be included in FY23 totals:

• Wednesday, June 14, is the deadline to submit via Fiat Docx draft agreements for pledges or outright gifts that establish new funds. Questions about gift agreements may be addressed to Fund Stewardship & Compliance at Fundhelp@berkeley.edu.
• Monday, June 26, is the deadline to submit adjustment requests for FY23 gifts, payments and pledges using the Adjustment Request Portal.
• Friday, June 30, is the deadline for:
  • delivery of mailed gifts to Gift Services.
  • executed and signed gift agreements to Fund Stewardship & Compliance.
  • gifts of securities or Wires/ACH to be received in the UC Berkeley brokerage or bank accounts, respectively. Notify GiveSecurities@berkeley.edu of any pending securities gifts. Notify GiftHelp@berkeley.edu of any pending wire/ACH gifts.

Approve direct retros for posting in FY23 by Friday, June 30

The cut-off to approve direct retros for posting in FY23 is Friday, June 30. Direct retros processed and/or approved after that point will be posted in the general ledger to the month of July.

Submit final C&G deficit clearing waivers in BFS by Friday, June 30

Research Administrators (RAs) or other BFS departmental users should submit FY23 Contracts & Grants deficit clearing waiver request forms, for a waiver of deficit clearing on open awards, via the RA Grants WorkCenter no later than Friday, June 30, 2023. For the Year-End Deficit Clearing Process on open awards, BFS users can submit the C&G deficit-clearing waiver request form through the RA Grants WorkCenter as of June 1. Refer to the action dots in the blue header row at the top of the screen in BFS for instructions. Access to the RA Grants WorkCenter is obtained by submitting a request via the SARA system. You can read more about the year-end deficit clearing process on the Deficit Clearing Process page.

Approve FY23 C&G deficit clearing waiver request forms by Friday, July 7

The deadline for Divisional Finance Leaders (DFLs) to approve the C&G deficit clearing waiver requests in BFS is Friday, July 7. DFLs should navigate to the following page in BFS in order to approve waivers: Enterprise Components > Forms > Approve/Review a Form. Enter “CGADFCWVR” in the “Form” field.

As a reminder, the following are exempt from the Year-End C&G Deficit Clearing Process related to open awards. Please do not submit a waiver under these circumstances:

• Awards that have a final Financial Report due date after May 31 and before January 1.
• Awards with an Anticipated Funding Amount recorded in BFS that exceeds the total actual expenses as of June 30. The Anticipated Funding Amount for awards is found in the BFS fund panel on the "Award Info" page.

If you have further questions regarding the Contracts & Grants deficit clearing processes, please contact the Controller’s Office at cgahelp@berkeley.edu.

Process and approve Online Recharge Financial Journals by Friday, July 7

Recharge units should process and approve all June online recharge entries by the deadline of July 7. No recharge transaction for June should be posted after the deadline. If your department receives recharges posted after the deadline, contact the unit responsible for the posting to request reversal and posting in the next fiscal year.

Submit completed and approved org tree change requests by Friday, August 18

If you would like to submit changes to the Org Tree, please submit your completed, Budget and Financial Operations (BFO) Committee approved request by August 18. 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. As a reminder, the May 16 submission date was the last day that approved change requests could be submitted for entry to the May Master Org Tree. Allowable changes through May 31 included New DeptIDs, New Org Nodes, and Description Changes. Important: The Org Tree is now closed to all changes through fiscal close.

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. Important: Please review the update on the estimated processing time for journal source configuration of new L4 org node codes. As a reminder, journal source configuration for new L4’s is required if there is a need to prepare and approve journals.
• Please review the Org Tree Calendar for the timeline of allowable org tree changes throughout the year.
• Please review the new Org Tree Lookup Tool This new tool replaces the monthly manually produced Master Org Tree and will provide the most current org tree data as of one business day before. Training materials and Job Aids are located on the CFO website.
• There are updates coming soon to the Department Prefixes, and How to Create Visio files job aids located in the Tools and job aids section of the Organizational Tree web page.
• 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.