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2011 Meeting Schedule and Tasks

The following is the schedule of meetings for the financial transaction and business service center directors, with additional dates for the KFS Campus Liaison monthly meetings.

Meeting Type
Date and Time Agenda Location
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting
Tuesday,
January 4, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Announcements (FTC/BSC definitions; meeting attendance, agendas, preparation and notes); Metrics; Procurement Cards; Future agenda items
225 ILR Conference Center
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
January 18, 2011
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Procurement Cards (requests, commodity codes, closures); Kuali; Confidential data to NARs; Local restaurants that direct-bill; Remote deposit; 1099s for corporations; Next meeting tasks
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting
Thursday
February 3, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Phase 2 milestones; Prerequisites for March quality assurance testing; Manual testing update; Kuali Day presentations
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Friday,
February 4, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Remote deposit after July 1, 2011; Out-of-state tax certificates; New Procurement Card application review and approval process; Questions for Supply Management Services B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Friday,
February 11, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Update on first FTC change management training; KFS delegations (fiscal officers, delegate assignment, set up and maintenance, transaction and payment approval authority update)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
March 1, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Group travel (including mention of contracts); Update on questions for SMS from February 4 meeting (content reviewer, matrix for recurring orders, etc.); KFS vendor set up (FTC/BSC/SMS roles and responsibilities)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting
Thursday
March 3, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Prerequisites for March QA testing; Phase 2 milestones; Project next steps; Org. consistency principles; Testing update; Training engagement; New translation tool

FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Monday,
March 14, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Procurement Card documentation scanning (receipts after KFS go-live, best practice); KFS roles (e-doc translation and delegation)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Wednesday,
March 23, 2011
KFS Roles (continuation from previous meeting - e-doc translation)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Friday,
March 25, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Remote Capture; PCI compliance (annual training, noncompliance); Catering project; Cellphone pooling project; Roles and responsibilities in vendor set up; Procurement Countdown to KFS news; KFS authority levels
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Thursday,
March 31, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
KFS training (training for extended groups, University Budget Group members list); KFS Roles (Disbursement Voucher and Travel System, requisitions, KFS roles in/out, Disbursement Voucher Vendor Setup best practice document, KFS fiscal officer delegations)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting
Thursday
April 7, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
KFS transaction initiation; training engagement update; KFS go-live access; ID&R tutorial review; standard operating procedures; chart cut-off dates

FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
April 12, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
2011 SOX Questionnaire; KFS roles (Initiator/out role for Edit Vendor, Disbursement Voucher Vendor Setup, other bank accounts); KFS fiscal officer delegations; Final Procurement Card feed and e-SHOP transactions
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Wednesday,
April 20, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
KFS training (review individuals to be trained); KFS roles (e-docs in FTCs and BSCs), Org reviewer functionality, transmitting requisition information); Fiscal officer delegations (draft delegation setups); Go-live access (security access worksheets)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
April 26, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Payroll accruals (FY11 year-end nonexempt payroll for June 30, 2011); KFS training; Disbursement voucher (vendor input, employees as vendors, petty cash recipients, Travel System use after go-live, processing prizes and awards); Asset/liability accounts (object codes, independent student organizations); Procedures for small-dollar payments with ultimate use for human subject fees
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
May 4, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
KFS roles (for go-live); KFS delegations (methodology for KFS delegations, Account Delegation Setup worksheet); Payments for next fiscal year; Hard-copy documents after KFS go-live; e-SHOP "Business Expense" field
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Thursday
May 5, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
KFS project update; Cutover update; Reminder for go-live access worksheets; Training reminder
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
May 10, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Prepaid expense accounts (solution for 2011-12 charges that must be prepaid before July 1, 2011); Supply Management Services updates (discussion, procurement card rebates, status of KFS vendor database, purchase order conversion plans; e-SHOP in KFS: Shop Catalog); FYI e-mails from Anne Shapiro
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Wednesday,
May 18, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Cash and credit card e-doc "back office" (DFA) processing in KFS (reconciliations - credit card receipt and advance deposit e-docs, cash operations my.cornell portlet, departments using remote capture); KFS (travel reimbursement process until travel module is implemented, book purchases)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
May 24, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
University Policy electronic mailing list; Tax identification numbers; Review of SFG concerns; Salary Expense Transfer class registration; Group communications (ideas for communicating between groups); Fiscal officer delegation (for Shop Catalog orders less than $500); Purchasing standard operating procedures; Miscellaneous updates
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
May 31 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Independent student organizations and the use of liability accounts (use of External Organization accounts for "agency" accounts in KFS); Disbursement Voucher vendor setup and edit best practice; Small-dollar and human subject fee processing update; FY11 Payroll accrual object code change
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Thursday
June 2, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
ID&R update; KFS support model; KFS project update; Stakeholder sign-off

FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Monday,
June 6, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Interim travel procedure (pre-KFS Travel module); Prizes and awards processing; Miscellany updates and information (enhanced template to replace WebReq, instructions on BSC procurement cards >$250K, access to phone billing information after KFS go-live, W-9 exceptions, Org Reviewer role clarification
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Thursday,
June 16, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
"Check Pick-up" and "Enclosure" options (proposed best practice); KFS support model; ID&R deliverables and training; APPS year-end and conversion update; Miscellany notes and updates (labor adjustment form, SME updates); Next meeting agenda items
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Monday,
June 20, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
CBS accepting new credit card customers; Visiting scientists (reimbursements, per diems); Enhanced Web template (WebReq replacement will be done in stages); Shop Catalogs (Requisition e-docs without account numbers, preparer notification of orders not submitted); Procurement card training; Travel reimbursement procedures; KFS support
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Thursday
July 7, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
KFS support review, KFS status report, ID&R status report
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Wednesday,
June 29, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Disbursement Voucher payment reasons to object levels worksheet; KFS go-live; Independent student organizations (solutions for processing separate transactions from Cornell internal organization accounts); Miscellaneous updates (KFS training environment, SMS training labs)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
July 12, 2011
9:00 a.m. –10:30 a.m.
Post-go-live KFS question and answer session (accounts payable, contracts and grants, financial processing, general ledger, reporting, purchasing, and support)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Monday,
July 18, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
KFS-related updates (requisition initiator permissions in e-SHOP, emergency status communications, procurement card issues, Kuali Identity Management issues, disbursement voucher issue, delegations, vendor set up); Supply Management Services updates (communications, quality issues, post-transaction audit on procurement cards, Staples Convenience Card, cellphone pooling and policy)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
August 2, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Introductions; Staples convenience card followup; one-time travel exception; W-9s; Auxiliary Vouchers; ad hoc approvals; delegations; bank account reconciliations; ACH payments; miscellany updates and information (country list, DV bug, student reimbursements, taxable payments, procurement card, system stability and performance, finding check numbers, restricted use payment reason)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Thursday
August 4, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
KFS production "Big Board," Year-end and fiscal year 2012 update, ID&R status report, Phase III update
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Monday,
August 15, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Announcements; Critical issues discussed (Vendor setup process from Purchase Orders and Disbursement Vouchers, issues with Receiving, Purchase Order issues, Payment Requests, available sponsored fund balances, Distribution of Income and Expense e-docs, general dashboard data, Fiscal Officer queue, delegations, W-9s, Requisitions vs. Payment Requests, training and standard operating procedures, travel, independent student organizations and external organizations, human participant fees, miscellaneous)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
August 30, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Announcements (Accounting Certificate Program, Purchase Orders awaiting receiving, KFS issues); Delegations; Ad hoc routing; Current status B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Monday
September 12, 2011
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
KFS Update communications; KFS production "Big Board"; KFS documentation needs; KFS/HR Org mapping; Phase III cutover details


FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
September 13, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Housekeeping (communications, temps); Advance Deposit and Credit Card Receipt e-doc back-office processing in KFS; In/Out discussions (Effort Certification, Capital Assets); Delegations; Miscellany (special handling checks)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
September 27, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Effort certification; In/Out discussion for Capital Assets (Capital Assets Document Summary, In/Out document, org reviewer role); Disbursement Voucher initiator role; "Signature Authority"; Sponsored Financial Services (payments to human participants, Salary Expense Transfer e-docs, business purpose, federally unallowable object codes, reporting research activity in KFS, "sub awards" to Weill Cornell Medical College)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
October 11, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Brainstorming billing - processes and steps (types of entries, differences between entry types, Service Billing e-docs, followups); Disbursement Voucher vendor setup best practice; procurement card receipt scanning at the unit level best practice; best practice for incoming wires; IT solution for rerouting documents; local security; Accounts Payable invoice backup update; pain points
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Thursday
October 13, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Phase 3 updates; KFS production status; project feedback
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
November 8, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Backlog; brown-bag lunch (purchase order vendors, document scanning); metrics; Spend Viz; discussion (invoice backlog, temporary staff, W-9 exceptions, check delivery, eInvoicing, meetings)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
November 22, 2011
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Travel (who is doing what?, KFS Travel module); KFS units of measure; sponsored and non-sponsored updates (non-sponsored contracts, W-9s, foreign travel on sponsored agreements, sponsored account setup, quality assurance); Cynergy/metrics; tax-exempt certificates
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
KFS Campus Liaisons Monthly Meeting Thursday
December 1, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Phase 3 updates; KFS production status; project feedback
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
December 6, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Credit Card Receipt (CCR) processing suspension; non-sponsored Procurement Card Document (PCDO) backlog and supporting documentation; document management volunteers; Supply Management Services (specifications and feedback for requested KFS enhancements); Corporate Travel Card Program
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room
FTC/BSC Directors' Meeting Tuesday,
December 20, 2011
10:30 a.m. – Noon
KFS over holiday break; Converted capital assets (Capital Assets module go-live for DFA, physical inventories); External Organizations (testing, new account setup, security, standard operating procedures); Supply Management Services response regarding KFS enhancements; Gifts for employees for the holidays (tax implications); Miscellany information and updates (nightly accounting updates, effort certification, processing issues, "moving" payment reason)
B12 Day Hall, Planning & Budget Conference Room

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