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895

Bulletin No. 895

Tuesday 4th January

Vulnerable Period

Use of Vulnerable Period - Thursday 6th January 2022

System maintenance is scheduled for the vulnerable period (VP) of 6am to 9am on Thursday 6th January.

  • Users who are processing in CUFS when the VP starts will lose their work.
  • Users who are running requests in CUFS when the VP starts could delay the start of work while those requests complete.
  • Users attempting to log onto CUFS while the system is being brought back online can face instability and delay the return of the sys

UFS Communications will be issued when the work is complete and users can access the system.

Issued by Paul Humphreys - Functional Analyst

Cambridge University Endowment Fund – Notification of Revaluation & Purchases & Sales

Revaluation as at 30 September 2021
Please note that the Cambridge University Endowment Fund has been revalued as at 30 September 2021.
CUFS has been updated to reflect the new valuation in the December 2021 accounting period.  The new Unit value is £70.76 (rounded). The unit value at the end of the previous quarter was £69.96 (rounded) which represents an increase in value of 1.14%.
 
Purchases & Sales September 2021
Unit purchases and sales as at 30 September 2021 have also be processed within the CUFS December 2021 accounting period. Contract Notes for purchases & sales will be despatched in due course.
 
Quarter 3 21/22
Could all non-Trust Fund purchase and sale request be sent to treasury@admin.cam.ac.uk. All Trust Fund requests should be sent to UFS_TF@admin.cam.ac.uk.
The deadline for the requests to be received is the 18th March 2022.
 
Queries:  Any queries should be addressed to: treasury@admin.cam.ac.uk  Treasury & Investments, Finance Division,  Ext 64216.
 
Issued by Scott Maclaren - Treasury & Investments

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Forthcoming Training courses (via Teams)

GL1: Getting Started in General Ledger, Tue 11 & Wed 12 Jan
Learn the basics of how the General Ledger module works. Topics include the University’s chart of accounts and how to run online account enquiries. The optional second session covers how to process journals.

Grants 3: Viewing Grants in CUFS, Thu 13 & Fri 14 Jan
Discover how to view your Grants setup in CUFS – a useful check for new awards. Also used to find the budget and transaction controls when experiencing issues raising POs or paying invoices. We will also run some CUFS Grants reports and the new Cognos Project/Award status report. NB: You need to have completed the Grants 1 (online course, duration about 30 mins) to do this course. In view of the new report, please make sure you also have Cognos access, and Cognos online intro course completed.

Issued by Christine Rogerson - Finance Training

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R12.2 Update on issues and procedures

If you are experiencing issues with iProcurement, please check the latest How-to Guidance and FAQs before contacting the Helpdesk Hub.

Many issues can be resolved by Clearing your browser cache.

Please visit the R12.2 Upgrade Page for the latest FAQs and reported issues: https://ufs.admin.cam.ac.uk/r122-upgrade

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support while we resolve the post upgrade issues.

Issued by Paul Humphreys – Functional Analyst

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Monthly Accounting Timetable

To view the status of the monthly process including the month end close dates please use the following link: Accounting Timetable

 

Vulnerable Periods

Some systems may be unavailable between 6.00am to 9.00am Tuesdays and Thursdays. Users will be notified of planned vulnerable periods here and in the latest bulletin.

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