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In accordance with the 2024-25 winter closure schedule , Stanford University will be officially closed for regular business from Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 through Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. Normal business hours will resume Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. All hours listed are in Pacific Time (PT) unless noted. This...

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.

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.

Stanford University’s financial account structure identifies each organization by a four-character alphabetical organization (org) code. The Organization Code Hierarchy Tool enables effective governance of this structure by defining parent-child organizational relationships and group information... Stanford UBO and FMS are building a new, robust organizational hierarchy management system to more effectively and efficiently support a broader set of the university's needs, launching July 1, 2023.

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.

Stanford Financial Management Services has partnered with University IT to update Labor Schedules (LS) email notification functionality and distribution to improve user experience and reduce administrative burden for LS system users, which comprise labor schedulers, labor distribution adjusters, and... The Labor Schedules (LS) system's email notification functionality and distribution will be enhanced to improve user experience and reduce administrative burden.

Developed in response to 2021 OBI Financial Reporting survey feedback, a new report is now available in the OBI PLM dashboard that provides better answers to payroll reporting questions. The new report shows salary, fringe benefits, and indirect costs attributable by employee for both actuals and...

The Labor Distribution Adjustments (LDA) Enhancement project launched a completely updated user interface in February 2022.