Accounting Services

Effective Saturday, July 1, 2023, the University will discontinue the use of object codes 5750 (Materials Fabrication - UA Owned) and 5751 (Materials Fabrication - Non-UA Owned).

The proposed Employee Related Expense (ERE) rates for FY 2024 have been approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Financial Services has created a new Reasonable Expense Guide to support campus in understanding our standards and responsibilities when spending University funds.

Financial Services Manual policy 9.11 Employee Recognition and Convocation and Award Events – Best Practices have been updated to reflect an increase in the benchmark amount for reasonable costs for food and refreshments from $25 to $40 per person, including tax and tip.

The updated Financials Modernization Chart of Accounts training is now available in EDGE Learning. This updated training expands on the previous Chart of Accounts training and introduces information about our upcoming new financial system, Oracle Cloud ERP.

The following communication is sent on behalf of University Information Technology Services (UITS) regarding the upcoming DocuWare transition that will take place starting at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 3, 2023, through Sunday, February 5, 2023.

The DocuWare rollback has been completed and the previous version was restored. All systems and Accounts Payable services are now available.

Due to unforeseen user sync issues with Amazon Web Services, the implementation team has made the decision to roll back to the previous version of DocuWare.

DocuWare will be transitioned to Amazon Web Services starting at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, January 20, 2023, through Sunday, January 22, 2023. Users may experience degraded performance in UAccess Financials during this transition.

The University of Arizona is committed to providing employees with important benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, worker’s compensation, liability insurance, and more. These benefits enable us to maintain a competitive position in the workforce and among higher education institutions. Maintaining stable rates for these expenses is challenging, given increased costs and employment changes.