1. Grant Brown Bag Session May 20, 2014

2.  CCRI’s Year End vs. Grant’s Year end  Review your grant before & after June 30 th  Review Open Commitments  Forward Receiving/Signed Invoices to A/P  Review negative account lines  Do all your expenses look like they’re there?  Review expenditures you do not recognize  Submit all travel & other expenses by July 11 th  Review who is being paid on your grant  Complete all T&E reports  Forward any Funding Source communications to the Controller’s Office 2

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4.  The Controller’s Office recommends that you review your grant in Banner before AND after June 30 th  Although time consuming, a review before year end can help us clean up your grant and avoid year end issues  Post year end review is also important to ensure that any changes needed were successfully completed and to make sure that nothing has hit your grant in error in the meantime  Use a checklist to ensure you’ve done it all 4

5.  Go to FGIBDST, enter the Fiscal Year (currently 14) enter your Fund #, tab to the next field, then click Next Block Once the data populates, go up to Options, select Organization Encumbrances [FGIOENC] 5

6.  This will show the list of Open Purchase Orders (PO’s) on your grant  Go to FPIPURR & enter the PO# for more detail PO # Account # the PO is on Amount remaining on the PO These are ZEROs 6

7.  For each of the Open PO’s on your grant:  If the good isn’t here yet, contact vendor to expedite  Is the PO still good? If it’s no longer going to be purchased, contact Purchasing & have them cancel the PO (liquidate blanket PO’s if not using them)  If you believe you have already received the item(s)/service on the PO, check with Accounts Payable (A/P) to see if they are missing any documentation  If you don’t recognize the Vendor Name and/or amount, look up the PO in FPIPURR for more information Mistakes can happen & you don’t want to foot the bill for someone else’s grant! 7

8.  Cutoff Dates: See Memo from Purchasing  FY14 vs. FY15 Requisitions/Purchase Orders  FY14 Purchase Orders Rolling to FY15  Grant Director is responsible for ensuring that PO balances are correct and roll properly from one year to the next Purchasing & Accounting don’t know what the balance should be – please notify us of potential errors  Communicate with Purchasing  Phone: 401-825-2196 8

9.  Make sure that all receiving documents get forwarded to A/P as soon as possible  If you receive an invoice: review it, sign if approving, forward to A/P – ASAP  If A/P sends you receiving doc’s/invoices, please review, sign & return immediately Accounts Payable 9

10.  Check with A/P if invoices you have received haven’t hit Banner yet  Watch out for invoices sent from A/P needing signatures  Communicate with A/P  Sandy Sokoll x1074; ssokoll@ccri.edussokoll@ccri.edu  Kay Fagnant x2445; kfagnant1@ccri.edukfagnant1@ccri.edu 10

11.  Go to FRIGITD, enter your Fund#, tab to the next field, then click Next Block Next Block You do not need to specify dates, they auto-populate 11

12.  If you see that there is a negative balance, then make sure all the expenses on that line look “ok”  To view the “Activity”, click inside the column for the specific account, then go to Options, select Grant Detail Information 12

13.  Review the amounts in the Activity column and Available Balance  Do these amounts look about right? If something seems high or low, look at the detail in the Activity column (see Slide # 12) If expenses hit the wrong line (or you don’t think they’re yours), contact the Chief Accountant for Grants (Tracy tamorkunas@ccri.edu or x2244) tamorkunas@ccri.edu  For any negative Available Balances, budget modifications should be made Email Tracy (tamorkunas@ccri.edu) and indicate which accounts you need to move budget dollars between & specify whether Funding Source approval is necessary for the change to be madetamorkunas@ccri.edu 13

14.  For Operating Expenses (Non-Payroll), review the detail – especially accounts with larger activity  If there is a vendor you do not immediately recognize, look up the invoice to make sure it belongs on your grant  If in FGIBDST, Click in the YTD Activity column - Click Options, Transaction Detail Info 14

15.  Example: During review of Educational Expense, you don’t recognize Advanced Educational Tech. Click on the Account number part of the line, then go to Options, Query Document [By Type] 15 This will bring you to the Invoice Query screen.

16.  The Query Screen will appear, click Next Block until to you see the description  Usually after clicking Next Block 2x, the Commodity Info. will appear 16

17. 17  If your Invoice/PO is broken down into multiple lines, you will have to hit the down button on your keyboard to view them This means there are 15 lines to view

18.  For all expenses that are incurred on or before June 30, 2014, submit all expenditures to the appropriate office by July 11, 2014  Travel (in-state mileage & out-of-state) should be submitted to Jo Anne Robitaille (Controller Off.)  Receiving documents/Approved Invoices Submit to Accounts Payable IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOUR GRANT ENDS AFTER JUNE – ALL JUNE EXPENSES MUST BE SUBMITTED BY JULY 11 TH 18 Jo Anne: x2150 jrobitaille@ccri.edu

19. When your grant’s term is ending, you must ensure ALL expenditures are processed BEFORE the final billing/drawdown is processed For Example: If your grant ends June 30 th and the final bill is due to the funding source by July 31 st, you must submit all travel & expenses BEFORE July 31 st – even though the travel policy says you have longer.  Otherwise, you need to find someone else to fund it! 19

20. Ensure that only your employees are being paid on your grant  Go to: NHIDIST – enter the From Date & To Date (dates are based on the pay date), enter your Fund#, click Next Block, click Execute Query 20 Next Execute Block Query

21.  Check to see all of your employees are listed  To export the data into excel, go up to: Help, select: Extract Data No Key Hold down the Control button until the screen appears 21

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23.  If you receive any communication or documents from your Funding Source, forward to the Controller’s Office  In FY13, RIDE announced that Adult Basic Education grants ending June 30, 2013 must remit the final invoice to RIDE by July 2, 2013!  The communication also stated that RIDE grants ending June 30 th must pay all invoices/expenses related to FY13 before the end of July 23 Funding Source Document Controller’s Office

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