Business Update

A service delay at Federal Express is causing intermittent error messages in the eShip Global application. Hazardous weather conditions have caused service disruptions in their Memphis, TN facility resulting in delivery delay and limited pick up activity. Individuals who are attempting to...

The Financial Review Checklist (FRC) Form 1101 FR.01 was recently reviewed and revised by members of the Controller’s Office with input from others to provide enhanced clarity around the...

When a new Costing Allocation is assigned in Workday, the start date for the allocation automatically defaults to today’s date. In most cases, the date needs to be changed. Now, an alert message will appear during the assignment.

For questions, please contact the Finance Support...

The following draft documents are now available for review and comment and are posted on the Policies and Procedures drafts website . The documents will be posted on the drafts site for a period of 30 days. Please...

Participant Support Costs (PSC) are direct costs for items such as stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees. These are paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection with conferences or training projects. To track or...

Departments needing to acquire Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or additional Yale branded facemasks can order directly through Yale Printing and Publishing Services (YPPS). Return to Yale Orders webpage . YPPS has a full...

​​​​​​​Notifications are sent, to the entry originator, when an accounting journal or accounting adjustment is canceled. The process runs daily at 8:00 a.m. and provides a list of accounting journals and accounting adjustments canceled the previous day.

To view the notifications, select...

Yale ITS is working closely with AT&T and Verizon to correct billing errors. Issues include overage charges, duplicate charges for equipment, and delays in billing.

AT&T

Effective with the January 2021 monthly payroll, Workday has released an enhancement that will allocate retroactive payroll expenses to the retroactive period’s costing allocations. This enhancement will help maintain accurate Payroll and Effort Certification results and limit the need...

Microsoft is retiring Skype for Business in July 2021. The University is moving to Microsoft Teams tools for chat and online calling.

The University is required to report certain transactions to the Internal Revenue Service and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, where it receives more than $10,000 in cash from a single payer. This rule applies to a single $10,000 transaction as well as two or more related transactions...

An article about a new Yale Purchasing Card (PCard) process was inadvertently sent out in the January 20, 2020 issue of Business Update. Please disregard. The new process for PCard distribution will be shared shortly.

Yale ePAY (eCommerce Payment Acceptance at Yale) is working with University departments to standardize credit card payment acceptance, processing, and reporting across the University to meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).