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Clarification were made on how to manage flight cancelations and exchanges and conference hotels. Key Travel was added.

Clarified when to use Ground Transportation vs. fly; clarified how to allocate an expense for airfare classes above economy.

Updated to include more instructions for travel arranger and to align visitor letter with updated policies/procedures

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.

Enhanced the Adding New Gifts to Existing Awards section and best practices for handling gifts.

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.

Updated OSA sweep deadline for transactions posted through 8/31/23.

Minor update to General Policy/Transportation Options section.

Added link to Local Hotel Program page; created separate section for hotels that exceed policy, with reimbursement guidance.

Financial Management Services (FMS) and University IT (UIT) have partnered to create a new self-service inquiry tool in Oracle Financials that allows users to look up an organization’s suspense account PTAs. If they are a budget officer, they can also create and send a request to change the suspense... On July 1, Stanford employees will have access to a new self-service inquiry tool that allows all Oracle Financials users to look up their organization’s suspense account PTAs and allows budget officers to request updates to them.