Stanford Travel Welcomes Mosaic Global Transportation as New Ground Transportation Partner
2025-05-20
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The Stanford Travel team is pleased to announce the addition of Mosaic Global Transportation to the Stanford Travel Program. As a recognized leader in international ground transportation, Mosaic brings decades of experience in delivering seamless, high-quality service — now available to support...
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Change Roadmap: Upcoming Projects and Enhancements
2025-02-28
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This page serves as a one-stop shop for departments and stakeholders across Stanford to stay up to date with projects and enhancements, as well as associated resources to support them.
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Business Expense Updates and Hot Topics
2025-02-26
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The university pays directly or reimburses individuals for expenses that are necessary and appropriate to conduct university business. Expenditures must be consistent with the university’s purchasing policies and guidelines as well as the guiding principles and IRS regulations with regard to...
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Year-End Close: Reminders and Deadlines
2024-07-22
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The following information is for FY24. Please check back in June 2025 for highlighted FY25 YEC dates. 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...
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Continuous Improvements to Fingate
2024-02-22
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FMS is continuously working to improve the Fingate user experience. Planned and completed changes range from search improvements, navigation updates and content revisions. Learn more about recent and upcoming changes on this news page.
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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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PTA Manager Enhancement: Closing Non-Sponsored PTAs Using Bulk Uploads
2023-07-28
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In January 2023, Stanford Financial Management Services (FMS) partnered with University IT (UIT) to launch the PTA Manager close request feature for non-sponsored PTA segments, which improved efficiency, internal controls, and data quality/accuracy. On July 31, new functionality was added that...
Recent PTA Manager enhancements have added functionality to close non-sponsored PTAs and PTA segments, giving users a more convenient and streamlined user experience.
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Turning Feedback Into Action
2023-02-01
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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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International Lodging Maximums Change on April 8
2022-09-27
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Starting April 8, 2022, Stanford will align its international lodging reimbursement maximums for actual expenses to the federal per diem rates, meaning that the same maximum applies for international lodging whether the traveler uses the per diem or actual expenses reimbursement method. In some...
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PTA Maintenance Enhancement Project
2022-04-25
The PTA Maintenance Enhancement is a Financial Systems Governance (FSG) strategic project initiated with University IT (UIT) in early 2022 to improve the PTA Maintenance system’s* controls, data quality, and accuracy by solving for current issues with two enhancements. The enhancements went live on...
The PTA Maintenance Enhancement is a Financial Systems Governance (FSG) strategic project initiated with University IT (UIT) in early 2022 to improve the PTA Maintenance system’s controls, data quality, and accuracy by by implementing two new slu
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