THE BOTTOM LINE Volume 12, Issue 2 Year End 2010 Dear Colleagues, As we approach June, it is a good time to reflect on the academic year that has just been completed. It was a successful year. Last fall, the largest incoming class ever was enrolled, reflecting the strong admission profile of the University of Richmond. And there were many academic accomplishments of the senior class highlighted during commencement. We are all reminded at what a great place the University of Richmond is to work and teach. While the summer can be a period for rejuvenation and special projects, it can also be an extremely busy time of year for many departments around campus. For the Controller’s Office and Business & Finance Office, we are entering some of the busiest months of the year. This issue of The Bottom Line newsletter is packed with information to help you navigate the financial requirements of closing out the fiscal year. Pay special attention to the deadlines and year end dates listed in this issue. Please take the time during the next few weeks to review your budgets for accuracy. Adjustments and transfers may be requested anytime between now and early July, but the sooner the better. THE NEWSLETTER STAFF Harlean Owens x1523 Val Cemprola x8151 Nancy Crowgey X6363 Sharon Condrey x8828 Susan Galvin x8537 Tammy Hicks x8752 Jean Hines x8181 Suzanne Kallighan x6562 Nancy Colón x6007 Robert Plymale x8178 Shelle Flowers X8171 The FY11 budgets are now loaded in Banner. You will be able to confirm the approved budget for your index, by using either FGIBDST or BannerWeb. See the section that provides information on how to do this. The global economy continues to be unpredictable, but the University’s resources remain strong. While we have taken a hard look at operating budgets, and made reallocations as necessary, we are also in a position to continue forward momentum on our capital projects and the strategic plan. Watching the Carole Weinstein International Center, Queally Hall, and the Robins Football Stadium near completion is very exciting. Jenni Sauer Associate Vice President for Business & Finance jsauer@richmond.edu Did You Know……………… Due to the fiscal year end, purchasing card documentation for the June 25 th statement is due to Accounts Payable by Tuesday, July 6th. Detailed receipts must be provided for business meal reimbursements. There is a new budget carry forward policy. Please see http://controller.richmond.edu/guidelines/YEBudgetMemo2010.pdf ACCOUNTING FY 11 Beginning Balances The budgets for funds 20xxx and 26xxx, as well as the balances for indices 8xxx and 9xxx, will not be rolled until the end of July. The Accounting Office runs a process each year end to roll these budgets/balances and the process cannot be run until all the final entries have been keyed for the fiscal year that is closing. If you need current balances for these funds and indices for FY11 before the end of July, please add the remaining balance for FY10 to the FY11 activity to get your correct balance. Year End Information Budget Reports & Journal Entries Preliminary 6/30/10 budget reports will be emailed after 5:00 pm on 07/01/10. The campus will have until 3:00 pm on July 1 to enter journal entries for the 06/30/10 preliminary budget report. Please keep in mind that this is a preliminary budget report for June, the final budget report will not be sent until we close the year at the end of July, which is tentatively scheduled for 7/28/10. June is the only month in which you will receive two budget reports. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE and CORPORATE ACCOUNTS Once you receive your preliminary report, please review it carefully for any errors. If you find an error or need to make any final entries to your budget, those entries must be in the Accounting Office or keyed into Banner no later than July 12, 2010. Changes Within Accounts Payable & Corporate Accounts We are rearranging job duties within the Accounts Payable & Corporate Accounts Office. Effective June 1, Corporate Accounts will become a separate area within Accounts Payable. The Corporate Accounts Office will be responsible for the University’s purchasing card program, our corporate Sam’s Club account, and our corporate AAA membership account. The Accounts Payable Office will be responsible for vendor payments and expense reimbursements. Two Fiscal Years Are Open in July Please keep in mind that there are two fiscal years open in the month of July. During the month of July we ask that you write FY10 or FY11 on the top of your journal entries when you send them to the Accounting Office for processing. By indicating which fiscal year you want your entry keyed into, there is less of a chance of your entry being entered into the wrong year. If your entry does not have FY10 or FY11 listed on it, and we aren’t 100% sure which year the entry should be keyed into, someone from the Accounting Office will call you to confirm. Please do us the favor of writing it on your entry to save us time during this very busy time of year. Remember, we will only be accepting FY10 entries until 7/12/10. With this restructure of the department, staff responsibilities will change. Francheska Williams will become part of the Corporate Accounts Office and will assist with the card programs. Jim Sager will process vendor payments and expense reimbursements as part of the Accounts Payable Office. Jim will also have a University ghost travel card which departments may use to make travel arrangements. Lynn Gibbons will be responsible for setting up new vendors in the Banner system for payment and will also handle stop payments of Accounts Payable issued checks, cancellations of Accounts Payable checks, and inquiries on whether or not a check has cleared the bank. FGIBDST After you receive your June preliminary monthly budget reports the evening of July 1st, and you have reviewed them for any errors, please be sure to continue to check your budgets on Banner using FGIBDST or by querying your budget on Web for Finance. By reviewing your budgets on Banner during the month of July, especially between 07/01/10 and 07/12/10, you will be able to see any last minute corrections or additions to your budget that you are expecting and at the same time ensuring your budget is not in a deficit. Accounts Payable Payment Processing Time As is common for this time of year, Accounts Payable has been inundated with payment requests. Because so many requests were submitted prior to the end of the academic year, it is currently taking us up to 15 business days from the time of receipt to get payments 2 ACCOUNTS PAYABLE and CORPORATE ACCOUNTS continued issued. Please know that we are processing requests as quickly as we can, but our turnaround time has increased due to the volume of work currently in the office. We hope to be back to having your requests processed within 10 business days of receipt by midJuly. Business Meals When seeking reimbursement for a business meal, please remember the following must be included in order for your request to be processed: Detailed restaurant receipt which includes the name of the restaurant, the number of people served, and the date and time of the meal. If the meal is for more than one person, the names and business relationship of each person who was included in the meal must be provided. For example, if the meal was for your department, list the name of each individual and the relationship can be listed as your department’s name, i.e. Controller’s Office staff. Summary receipt which shows the amount of gratuity that was paid. Detailed explanation for the business meal. As the University does not typically pay for meals for employees, a justification must be given as to why a reimbursement is requested. This information must be provided whether a reimbursement is submitted for the meal or if the meal is placed on a University credit card. Failure to provide any of this information may result in your reimbursement being delayed or denied. If the meal was on a University credit card, failure to provide the information may result in the credit card being suspended. Emailing of Social Security Numbers Please do not send credit card numbers, social security numbers, or bank account numbers in emails. Email is not a secure means of communication and the information can very easily be stolen. If you need to provide this type of information to Accounts Payable, please give us the numbers over the phone. If your information involves a University credit card account, please provide only the last 4 digits of the card number and the cardholder’s name in the email. . 3 When requesting a new vendor be set-up for payment, please email Lynn Gibbons the vendor’s complete name and address. If the vendor is a company, you may provide the taxpayer identification number in the email. This number is public information. If the vendor is an individual, follow-up with a phone call to Lynn to provide the individual’s social security number. Important Accounts Payable Year End Dates With our fiscal year end quickly approaching, below are some important dates to be aware of: 6/11 6/18 6/21 6/25 6/30 7/6 7/8 Invoices, check requests, reimbursements due to AP to make the June preliminary budget reports. Documents received after this date will make the FY10 budget, but may not make the preliminary report. Last day to make P-Card charges for the June 24 statement, the last statement for FY10. Requisitions due to Procurement Services for FY10. Check requests, reimbursements, invoices due to AP to be paid out of FY10 budget. P-Card statements available for download. Last statement for FY10. Charges which do not appear on this statement will be charged to the new fiscal year, FY11. Last check run to be included in the June preliminary budget reports P-Card statements due to AP to ensure charges are made to correct fiscal years. Last FY10 check run. Year End Check Run Schedule Our check run schedule for fiscal year end will be as follows: Wednesday Friday Tuesday Thursday June 30th July 2nd July 6th July 8th last check run to include ―old‖ (FY10) payments mistake, please email Jean Hines at jhines@richmond.edu immediately. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE and CORPORATE ACCOUNTS continued Travel “Old Year” v. “New Year” Expenses If you are making reservations or deposits now for events that will occur after July 1, please indicate on your invoice or expense reimbursement request, which fiscal year to charge. From July 1st through July 8th, if there is no fiscal year indicated, we will charge to the appropriate fiscal year, based on the dates of your trip. Please watch your budget reports closely to make sure your budget has been charged correctly for these items. If you notice a mistake, please email Jean Hines (jhines@richmond.edu) immediately. If you want your charges to appear on your preliminary June 30th budget reports, have your payment requests to Accounts Payable by Friday, June 11th to ensure your request is processed by the June 30th check run. To ensure your FY10 charges hit your “old year” budget, you must have the requests to Accounts Payable by Monday, June 21st so that the items are paid by our July 8th check run (the last check run for the FY10 budget). Prepaid Expenses or “New Year” Charges for Invoices or Reimbursements Expenses (or purchases) that are made now, but are to be charged to the new fiscal year, FY11, are considered ―prepaid expenses‖. If you are making purchases now that must be charged to the new fiscal year, please make sure to indicate this on the check request form, invoice, or travel and expense reimbursement form. For purchases made now, but being charged to the new budget, please indicate FY11 on the request or mark your request ―NEW YEAR‖. This will help us ensure your budget is charged correctly. Prepayments will be processed through June 30th. New Year Budget Adjustment of Old Year Expenses Funds may be carried forward from the old fiscal year to the new fiscal year if there is a charge that belongs to the old year, but the invoice, check request, or travel & entertainment expense form will not be processed by Accounts Payable until the new fiscal year. You should send a request to Jean Hines. The description should include information such as the vendor name, the items purchased, the total cost, and the index/account code the funds will be moved from and the index/account the funds will be moved to. “Old Year” versus “New Year” Charges for Invoices, Check Requests, or Expense Reimbursements Between July 1st and July 8th Accounts Payable will be able to make payments and process reimbursement requests out of either FY10 or FY11 budgets and items are no longer considered ―prepayments‖. When submitting requests for payment, during this ―dual year‖ processing period, please clearly specify which fiscal year’s budget should be charged. If you do not specify which fiscal year to charge, Accounts Payable will make the determination. The determination of whether an invoice is to be paid as “old” or “new‖ year is dependent on the date the services are performed or the date the goods are received. “Old Year” goods and/or services must be provided before July 1st. Please do not submit your requests until after you receive your preliminary June budget report. Please submit your requests between July 1 and July 12th. Budget adjustments will be processed 7/13 thru 7/20. For additional information regarding a new process for carry forwards, please see the Budgeting section. Purchasing Card Deadlines Please refer to the purchasing card newsletter for important year end dates. Purchase Orders (PO’s) June 25th is the last day to submit requisitions to Procurement Services for 2009-2010 purchases. After the July 8th check run, we will no longer be able to pay items against the Old Year budget; all payments will be paid out of New Year funds. PO’s not invoiced and paid in the current fiscal year will roll forward to the ―New Year‖ as an encumbrance. There will be NO budget Please watch your budget reports closely to make sure your budget has been charged correctly for these items. If you notice a 4 the fiscal year, or you may use one of your saved queries, you’ll just need to change the fiscal year to 2011. You can permanently change your saved query so that it will always pull up fiscal year 2011 by resaving your query and retyping its name exactly as it was before. If you type a different name, it will save it as a different query. Please keep in mind that you cannot delete an old query when you are finished with it, so you may want to wait until the start of the new fiscal year before you permanently resave your query with fiscal year 2011 in it. If you have additional questions about how to use Finance Self Service, you can contact Kerri Chapman at x6866 or by email at kchapman@richmond.edu. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND CORPORATE ACCOUNTS continued adjustments in the ―New Year‖. We will charge (debit) your FY2009-2010 budget and will credit your FY2010-2011 budget for all university budgeted, unrestricted funds. Indices 8, 9, and restricted discretionary funds will roll forward as encumbrances only. Please remember that if you have a purchase order that has been cut against your FY10 budget, the invoice must also be paid from FY10 funds. If you want your invoice to be paid out of the FY11 budget, please have Procurement and Strategic Sourcing cut your purchase order from that budget. Budget Carry Forwards As announced by the Vice President for Business & Finance on May 28th, budget carry forwards may be allowed under certain situations. It is up to a Division Vice President or School Dean to approve the budget carry forward so long as the division or school has an overall positive remaining balance. See the following links for memo and request form: Clearing Your Encumbrances (PO’s) Accounts Payable is busy trying to resolve Purchase Order (PO) purchases before the close of the fiscal year. If you have received your goods, please forward your signed purchase order to Accounts Payable, as quickly as possible, so that we can have these payments issued before the end of the fiscal year. http://controller.richmond.edu/guidelines/YEBudg etMemo2010.pdf http://controller.richmond.edu/forms/carryoverre questform2010.pdf Please contact us as soon as possible if you have noticed an encumbrance still showing on your budget report, when it should be clear. It may be that the items you purchased cost less than the amount stated on the purchase order. If this is the case, we can easily liquidate the balance of the encumbrance so that the money goes back into your budget and is available for you to use. CASH MANAGEMENT What is PCI and why does is affect you? The Payment Card Industry (PCI) has created a set of standards that all merchants accepting credit cards must adhere to in order to maintain as secure an environment as possible. They are called Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) and can be accessed at www.pcisecuritystandards.org. BUDGETING Fiscal Year 2011 Budget You can now access the University’s budget for fiscal year 2011 using Banner or BannerWeb for Finance. When using Banner, go to screen FGIBDST and change the fiscal year code to 11. Then put in your department’s index number and perform the ―next block‖ function. You will see the budget numbers for the next year. If you have any problems or questions, please contact Kiesha Cheatham at x6416 or by email at lcheatha@richmond.edu. You may also contact Susan Galvin at x8537 or by email at sgalvin@richmond.edu. Bank of America (our acquirer) enforces PCI compliance and failure to comply may result in fines, restrictions or permanent expulsion from card acceptance programs. If you are a credit card merchant on campus you are responsible for making sure your area is in compliance: Protect cardholder data – if you don’t need it, don’t keep it! Implement and maintain strong access controls – restrict access to cardholder data; use and regularly change passwords. Attend annual PCI training; share information regarding PCI compliance with all new staff. If you would like to use Finance Self Service, you may either create a new query and use 2011 as 5 b. Fax – (804) 287-1222 c. E-Mail – ncrowgey@richmond.edu CASH MANAGEMENT continued Maintain a policy information security. that 2. Indicate the index and account code where you wish to have the payment credited. addresses When payment is received, a journal entry will be made to credit your department with the payment. A copy of the invoice with the pertinent payment information noted will be sent to you upon request. The payment will be reflected on your monthly Banner printout. If your area experiences a breach, these are possible consequences: Fines… $50K to $500K Cost of forensic analysis Cardholder costs Notification Credit watch service Loss of Merchant status External audit and its cost Reputation of university tarnished Loss of customer confidence Thank you for following the above instructions. As more and more payments are received in this manner, having a copy of the invoice in advance will reduce the amount of detective work required to track down which department on campus is expecting these payments. It is up to all of us to make sure that we are keeping all credit card data as secure as possible at UR. For more information on PCI please visit: http://controller/guidelines/ecommercepolicies.pdf GRANTS ACCOUNTING Payments received via Electronic Funds Transfer Are you expecting payment from a state or federal agency or from someone who indicated they would ―wire funds‖ or make payment via ACH? OR Who needs to fill out a Time & Effort Report? If you are a P.I. on a federal grant, you need to fill out a Time & Effort report three times a year. The percentage of effort a P.I. puts in for their federal grant(s) must equal or exceed the percentage of effort the P.I. promised to put into their grant, for any given effort certification period. For example, if a P.I. promises to put 50% of their effort into their federal grant during the academic year, then 50% would be the minimum effort acceptable for the spring and fall semesters. Does your Department invoice outside agencies/vendors (including State and Federal agencies) for goods or services provided? please make note of the following: If so, Both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Federal government now make payments to the University of Richmond almost exclusively via Electronic Funds Transfer. These include wire transfers and ACH payments. In addition, many businesses are now choosing to remit payments exclusively through the ACH (automated clearing house) processes. Some federal grants provide funding for the P.I. to hire a Post-Doc. Most Post-Docs are monthly paid employee whose pay is 100% supported by the federal grant. All of these post-docs need to fill out a Time & Effort Report. Most Post-Docs will put 100% effort towards the federal grant. The P.I. must co-sign the Post-Doc’s Time & Effort report. These payments are automatically deposited into our main bank account at Bank of America. To insure that the correct department on campus gets credit for these deposits, we ask that you do the following: Some federal grants have P.I.s and senior personnel who work on a federal grant but are not paid by the grant. In cases like this the P.I and all senior personnel must still fill out a Time & Effort report. People listed as senior personnel must have the P.I. co-sign their Time & Effort report. If a grant P.I. or senior personnel is required by the granting agency to put a certain percentage of effort towards the federal grant, the percentage of effort must at least equal the predetermined percentage. 1. Send a copy of the invoice to Nancy Crowgey, Cash Manager, at the time the invoice is prepared, via one of the following: a. Campus Mail – 201 Maryland Hall 6 adhering to ICE regulations, it is important that supervisors help their NRA employees follow the rules. The Office of International Taxation runs a report each student pay period to ensure that no student has exceeded the work hour limitations. If an NRA student violates the ICE regulations, that individual will be terminated from working on campus. The severity of the penalty is to prevent the student from being deported and the University from being fined. GRANTS ACCOUNTING continued Some federal grants have monthly paid UR faculty, or monthly paid UR staff, that are not listed as P.I.s or senior personnel, but their names are mentioned in the budget justifications as a person working on the grant. In cases like this the monthly paid person must fill out a Time & Effort report, which must be co-signed by the grant P.I. If the person who is mentioned in the budget justification has a predetermined percentage of effort that they will put towards the federal grant, the percentage of effort must at least equal the predetermined percentage. NRA students who wish to work additional hours may not volunteer their time. NRA students may work more than one job but the total number of hours worked may not exceed the work hour limitation set by ICE. If an NRA student is employed in a salary position (RA, Drill Instructor, etc.) or is paid a lump sum, that student should contact Student Employment to confirm how many hours to attribute to a particular week’s total number of work hours. Bi-weekly staff and bi-weekly students complete their Time & Effort report when they fill out their web-time entry. University of Richmond students working over the summer complete their Time & Effort report when they turn in their student logs. If a Grant P.I. states in the budget justification that students will work on their federal grant(s) for academic credit, the P.I. must let the Grants Accounting Manager know the names of the students who worked on the grant(s) for academic credit. The Grants Accounting Manager will then confirm with the students that they worked on the P.I.’s federal grant for academic credit. This will satisfy the Time & Effort requirement for students who work on grants for academic credit. PAYROLL If anyone has questions about filling out a Time & Effort report, please contact the Grants Accounting Manager, Robert Plymale 804-2898178 or rplymale@richmond.edu Fiscal Year 10 Payroll Deadlines Mark Your Calendars! June 15th (noon) Monthly Staff ---- Deadline for check requests for ―services rendered‖ for monthly paid employees in order to be paid on July 1st. INTERNATIONAL TAXATION 20/40 Hour Work Limitation – It’s the Law! Many students choose to work on campus during the summer and it is important to remember that international students (NRAs) must still follow visa and tax regulations even though school is not in session. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regulations stipulate the maximum number of hours that an NRA student may work -- while school is in session the NRA student may work no more than 20 hours per week and during official school breaks and in the summer the NRA student may work up to 40 hours per week. June 21st --- (10:00 a.m.) Biweekly Staff -- Deadline for final biweekly payroll of the fiscal year. Any special check requests for biweekly paid employees that should be paid in fiscal year 10 must also be submitted at this time. June 28th---(10:00 a.m.) Student Staff -Deadline for final student payroll of the fiscal year. Any special check requests for student employees that should be paid in fiscal year 10 must also be submitted at this time. Although NRA students are ultimately responsible both for tracking their work hours and for 7 time worked during the academic year after we have switched the FICA tax ―On‖ for the summer, the wages will have FICA tax withheld. PAYROLL continued Can Federal Work-Study Awards be used during the summer? No federal work-study wages are processed during the summer; all student earnings are funded from the University Work Program funds. Summer Student Payroll Where will summer checks be mailed? Checks for students working in the summer will be mailed according to a hierarchy of addresses on the Banner System—first to the mailing temporary address, if none, then it would go to the local address, if none, then it would be mailed to the permanent address. Student supervisors should inform all newly hired student employees of the summer distribution method. Students can elect to give payroll an address that overrides the hierarchy by notifying us at payroll@richmond.edu STUDENT ACCOUNTS/CASHIER Year End Deposits So that we may reflect revenues and expenditures in the appropriate fiscal year, please deposit all revenues on hand by 4:00 pm on Monday, June 29, 2010. In the past our office has been inundated with deposits on the final working day of the fiscal year. The amount of deposits received that day makes it impossible to complete all the data entry on Banner. We would greatly appreciate your help in making this year-end process run as smoothly as possible. Will students with direct deposit be affected in any way? No, direct deposits remain in effect throughout the summer, and students will still be able to view stub information via Banner Web. On the Banner Web timesheets for the summer, the earnings code is no longer “regular pay” but “summer earnings”. Why is this? A new code has been created for summer pay. The payroll system, when processing hours worked on this new code, will automatically create a second entry that will pay an additional $2.30/hr to your normal academic year pay rate. Students working during the summer earn $2.30 more per hour (this amount varies from year to year) than they do during the academic year to help defray living costs. This change has been made to automate the summer premium pay rate and alleviate manual data entry for the Student Employment Office. (Note: the summer premium rate differs for the Catering department – please check with your supervisor if this applies to you.) If you receive fiscal year 2010 revenues after this cutoff date, bring the deposit to the Cashier's Office as soon as possible. Please clearly mark on the miscellaneous receipt form OLD YEAR. Tuesday, July 6th is the final day for receipt of "Old Year" deposits. Tuition Remission Don't forget that you must submit a tuition remission form for all credit courses that you plan to take, if you qualify for this benefit through Human Resources. A tuition remission form must be completed and returned to Human Resource Services for each course taken. You will receive a tuition bill until the tuition remission form has been processed. Petty Cash Please remember that all petty cash receipts must be taped to a separate 8-1/2X11‖ sheet of paper. The receipts should include the detail of what was purchased. When using petty cash for a restaurant, we need the receipt that shows what was ordered and a list of everyone who ate. What are FICA taxes and why are they withheld in the summer? The FICA taxes are the social security taxes for FICA-Medicare and FICA Old Age/Survivors. During the academic year when a student is enrolled in at least halftime status, the student is exempt from social security taxes. During the summer, wages are subjected to social security taxes at a rate of 7.65% for the employee and for the University. Petty cash may not be used for the following: When will FICA taxes be withheld from student paychecks? With the end of the last academic payroll period on May 9th, all students’ wages will be subject to FICA taxes, regardless of when they actually worked. If a timecard is submitted to payroll for 8 Receipts over 30 days old ATM fees Mileage and gas receipts Cash Advance fees Gift Cards/Certificates STUDENT ACCOUNTS/CASHIER continued As always, if you have any questions about what petty cash can and cannot be used for, please call the Cashier’s office at x8769. 9