Grants Accounting has engaged with Point Consulting Group to complete the university’s next F&A rate agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Cost Allocation Services.
Business Matters
When making purchases, it is important to be aware if any portion of the purchase meets the criteria to be considered capital equipment. If the purchase meets our capitalization criteria, we need to follow OU Equipment Inventory policy 19.054 Equipment Inventory Control.
For proper management of your unit’s sponsored funds, it is imperative that budget to actuals are reconciled on a regular basis to ensure that expenditures are charged correctly and within appropriate federal guidelines (Uniform Guidance). Why is it important that you do this on a regular basis?
The Financial Approvers and Related Metadata (FARM) system is used by planning units to maintain their approvers for finance and human resource transactions. If these approvers are not set up properly, it results in errors that delay the processing of these transactions. We would like to share a few FARM setup reminders t
During the month of August, we mave the following OBI dashboard enhancements:
At this time, all JP Morgan payment cards have been closed. If you still have your old card linked to your Concur profile, please delete the information before scheduling any future travel. Using your old card information will cause the transaction to be declined.
When using your new BofA Payment card online or adding the card into your Concur Profile you will be asked to enter the billing address that is associated with your card. All cards under the BofA program have a billing address of 1 ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú Dr. Athens, OH 45701.
If you look at your new BofA payment card, you will notice that all of the cards say Purchasing along the left-hand side. This is because BofA considers all cards in ÌìÌÃÄñÏÈÉú’s program purchasing cards.
As travel has picked back up, the PCard office has been seeing some issues with the Corporate Travel Card (CTA) being used to hold hotel rooms booked through Concur.
Now that travel has opened back up and faculty/staff are traveling domestically and internationally we wanted to remind everyone that meals are reimbursed by per diem and are not allowed to be charged to a university credit card (except when hosting an allowable business meal).