Bank Closure/Takeover Impacts and Resources
2023-05-02
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This article provides a summary of guidance for suppliers and employees who are impacted by recent bank closures, for example Silicon Valley Bank.
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Organization Code Hierarchy Tool Project
2023-02-21
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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.
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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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Maintain Approval Authority: Take the Approving Financial Transactions Course
2022-10-01
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Beginning October 2022, the FIN-PROG-103 course will be required for all existing requisition, expense journal and labor distribution approvers, and will require a refresh every two years.
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Excellence in Financial Stewardship | Issue 5open_in_new
2022-06-28
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This issue focuses on the role of financial approvers, features real stories of approvers who made significant impact, and offers a new toolkit of resources to support approvers.
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PTA Maintenance Enhancement Project
2022-04-25
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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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Excellence in Financial Stewardship | Issue 4open_in_new
2022-02-10
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This newsletter focuses on balancing risk and benefit considerations in determining the appropriate purchasing method.
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FMS Client Satisfaction Survey
2021-09-22
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The Client Satisfaction Survey is an ongoing conversation with the Stanford community to learn about their experiences with the financial tools, systems and services that FMS provides and uses that feedback to inform strategic initiatives and continuous improvements.
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Merchant Services Fall 2021open_in_new
2021-09-15
Topics include MS Project Updates, Operational Reminders, and Trainings
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