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 – [...]
KFS Fiscal Officer Delegations
Expertise on sponsored, financial management and budget issues often resides outside of an FTC/BSC and may therefore require delegation of authority outside of an FTC/BSC, carrying with it the administrative burden of maintaining “delegations” within the KFS application. We call this “Extended” delegation. To reduce the administrative burden of maintaining “delegations” within the application, the [...]
Effort Certification and Routing
As I mentioned in my last post, effort certifications will be routed to the project director associated with each account on the award. Where a particular award has several accounts, it can be routed to the project director associated with each account, not the overall project director (principal investigator). In addition, effort reports will also [...]
Better Compliance for Effort Certification
Effort certification is one of the highest compliance risks for the university; both internal and external auditors audit it routinely. The KFS Effort module will provide tools to assist with this type of compliance. One of the most important is that the report will display 100 percent of an individual’s effort. In our current environment, [...]
Purchasing, Routing, and Approvals
Similar to today’s purchasing web form, a casual user will be able to create requisitions in KFS with basic information and without knowing the account number. But she won’t select the person to approve it, as our current system allows. The requisition e-doc will automatically route to a content reviewer, who will have been assigned by [...]
You’ve got KFS mail.
You’ve heard that workflow will be the core of the new KFS world, and that it will be predefined. But have you heard that you—yes, you—will be able to add new individuals into the standard workflow? How about sending your requisition for approval to your principal investigator (PI)? Or sending an FYI to the customer [...]
Predefined Workflow
One of the things you won’t need to do in KFS is pick an approver. Each specialized e-doc comes with predefined workflow. You can trust that each fiscal officer has defined delegates for when they are out, and central review will be performed by a group of people who have been given access. You will [...]
Getting Things Done the Kuali Workflow Way!
Imagine your world without papers everywhere, forms to fill out, forms to approve, forms to file, forms to lose! Imagine a world without constant telephone interruptions, full Audix mailboxes, and “Where is the form I asked you to approve?” Do you feel a smile coming to your face? Are you thinking this is Barb’s fantasy [...]
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