DFL weekly update - November 19, 2021

Action Items

Queue commitments for Q2 requests by Monday, November 29 (updated deadline)

Please complete the applicable form (linked below) to queue commitments by Monday, November 29 for commitments to be funded in the second quarter of FY2021-22. Please note that the following commitments do not need to be queued: Budget Decisions; EVCP TAS; Star Awards; Bear Grants; Productivity Suite withdrawals and now endowment payouts for rotating chairs. Commitments are processed on a quarterly basis.

Please note that while we're working remotely you must log in through VPN for these forms to work.

Please email dfl_concierge@berkeley.edu with questions.

• To queue non-faculty commitments, complete the non-faculty commitments form on the DFL Knowledge and Resource Portal.
• To queue faculty commitments, complete the faculty commitments form on the DFL Knowledge and Resource Portal. Faculty commitments are defined for this purpose as Start-up; Retention; ASMD; and Chancellor's Professorships. Chancellor’s Professorships are those that are offered via start-up or retention in lieu of an actual chair - until one can be found, and are funded by central resources.
  • New this year: Please provide screenshots of UCPath entries for ASMD leave begin dates and ASMD end dates when you queue ASMD funding through the faculty queue.

FY23 recharge budget process

Sign up for recharge training on December 3 and December 10

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 will post the self-certification form to the recharge page of the CFO website by Friday, November 12. In preparation for the upcoming deadline, we are offering two recharge workshops. Please follow the links below to register for a session. If you have any questions, please contact the Budget and Financial Operations team at recharge_certification@berkeley.edu.

• Friday, December 3 from 10 am to 12 pm
• Friday, December 10 from 10 am to 12 pm

Submit PermBudg journals to retire the PermBudg for recharges by Friday, January 21

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 CalpPlan. 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.

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.

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 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.