Creating Opportunities through the Supplier Diversity Initiative
2023-09-22
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Suppliers play a critical role in enabling the university to realize its mission and live its values. Given the critical role of the supplier and Stanford's decentralized purchasing approach which allows individual departments to make purchasing decisions that are tailored to their specific needs...
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PTA Manager Enhancement: Capital Projects Closeout and Cancellation
2023-09-20
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Financial Management Services (FMS) has partnered with University IT (UIT) on an enhancement project to streamline, standardize, and automate the capital projects closeout and cancellation process by adding new functionality to PTA Manager. PTA Manager is a system in Oracle Financials that enables...
Announcing the new PTAC Closeout functionality to PTA Manager.
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July Enhancements to the PCard Module
2023-07-14
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In an ongoing effort to improve and streamline the Stanford Purchasing Card (PCard) experience, several enhancements to the Purchasing Card module within Oracle Financials will launch on July 17. Additionally, to continually improve and support purchasing practices and policies that are compliant...
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OBI News: Summer 2023open_in_new
2023-06-28
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In this issue: Updated P2P Dashboard At a Glance Report, July 14 drop-in OBI Open Lab, July 31 aging transactions reminder, and more.
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Excellence in Financial Stewardship | Issue 8open_in_new
2023-06-22
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This newsletter, covers the risks and best practices with stewarding gifts using scenarios such as spending in accordance with the gift terms, when a donor’s gift is unspent, and navigating difficult and uncertain situations.
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New Course Now Required to Access iProcurement
2023-06-22
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The purchase of goods and services plays a big part in helping to achieve the university’s mission. Faculty and staff who make purchases have a key role in stewarding the university’s resources. Stanford Financial Management Services (FMS) recently launched FIN-0420: Preferred Purchasing Methods to...
New FIN-0420: Preferred Purchasing Methods course now required to access iProcurement
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Year-End Close: 2023 Reminders and Deadlines
2023-05-31
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It's that time of year again! The year-end close (YEC) process of recording and reporting expenses from September through August gives a snapshot of the university's transactional activity each fiscal year. For an in-depth look at the process, review Topic Overview: Year-End Close. Schedules and...
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Year-in-Review: Resources Supporting Financial Stewardship
2023-05-02
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Over the past year, Stanford Financial Management Services (FMS) focused on providing the financial community with the tools and knowledge needed to support financial stewardship of all our university resources. The efforts also built a common understanding of the key requirements around all our...
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Excellence in Financial Stewardship | Issue 7open_in_new
2023-03-23
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This issue covers the various benefits that Stanford enjoys as a tax-exempt organization, risks and compliance requirements associated with these benefits, and the roles and responsibilities of employees and key members of the financial ecosystem.
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Turning Feedback Into Action
2023-02-01
FMS uses the Client Satisfaction Survey to gather feedback from faculty and staff that fuels action plans for continuous improvements. This article covers the latest on those projects.
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