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The Employee Related Expense (ERE) rates used by the University must be negotiated through the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Cost Allocation Services; this negotiation has been successfully completed.
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Effective immediately, the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) is asking all government finance professionals and industry affiliates to stop using the common four-letter acronym most often associated with the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
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Accounts Payable, in collaboration with Purchasing and University Information Technology Services (UITS), is pleased to announce that USA Scientific, an Arizona BuyWays vendor, will provide electronic invoicing effective June 21, 2021.
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Effective July 1, 2021, the Financial Services Property Management team will discontinue issuing N-tags for all University-owned non-capital computers and computer peripherals costing less than $5,000 with no sponsor funding.
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The University of Arizona receives Automated Clearing House (ACH) and wire payments that post in the UAccess Financials Electronic Payment Claim area. There are 40 payments dating back to August of 2018 that remain unclaimed and require immediate review before they are sent back to its origination.
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Effective Wednesday, May 26, 2021, the FedEx EDI weekly shipping invoice files will now contain late fees for invoices that are not paid by the due date.
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Financial Services and Sponsored Projects & Contracting Services have updated policy 9.15 Operational Advances. Additionally, related forms have been created to utilize Adobe Sign for a paperless electronic routing and approval process.
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The duplicate transactions and the offsetting transactions with a Create Date of 5/4/2021 and 5/5/2021 should be reconciled and approved. It is not necessary to attach copies of receipts or documentation for the duplicate transactions and offsetting transactions. Unfortunately, there is no way to approve or reconcile these in an automated way. We recognize that this creates additional work for departments, we apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience. Questions can be directed to the main PCard Customer Service at 520-626-9091.
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