Tips for Month End
As we’ve discussed here before, in KFS, month end is month end, even if it occurs on a Saturday or Sunday! When a month ends on a weekend, we will make every effort to keep the system available. Please note, however, that the KFS Help Desk operates from 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday – [...]
Long-Term Investment Pool (LTIP) Transaction Cutoff Dates for KFS
In legacy, a full three days were allowed after the actual end of the month to post LTIP transactions back to the previous month’s general ledger. But, as month end is now month end in KFS, the LTIP cutoff date will be the 25th of each month. The purpose of choosing the 25th of the [...]
Month End is Month End!
In our legacy financial system, a full three days are allowed after the actual end of a month to post transactions to the previous month. In KFS, the month-end time frame for posting data means, literally, just that—data must post by month end—i.e., by the very last day of the month—to be included in that [...]
Nightly KDW Updates
KDW (the KFS Data Warehouse) loads data from dozens of tables in KFS (i.e., pulls set-up as well as transactional data), Monday through Friday, after the normal weeknight batch processes. KDW updates have a load schedule similar to all other production data mart loads. (Note: at Cornell we are somewhat imprecise with terminology; for this [...]
Nightly Unavailability of KFS during Batch Jobs
Accounting transactions can be entered into KFS seven days a week, 365 days a year. Those transactions will be shown as “Pending Entries” in the application until the nightly batch jobs run and post the entries to the General Ledger (G/L). To keep the application and the G/L in sync, it will be necessary to [...]
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