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Direct Loan Reconciliation Process Guide
Monthly Direct Loan Reconciliations are necessary through the closeout of each Direct Loan
Program Award Year to ensure that the amount of Direct Loan funds that were received by the
University from the U.S. Department of Education through its Common Origination and
Disbursement (COD) System can be substantiated in the University’s records. Per Direct Loan
School Guide, Chapter 6, published by the U.S. Department of Education,
“A school that participates in the DL [Direct Loan] Program is required to
reconcile the funds that it has received (from the G5 system) to pay its students
with the actual disbursement records that it has forwarded to the Common
Origination and Disbursement (COD) system. Reconciliation takes place on a
monthly basis, with a final reconciliation that is conducted after the award year
ends on June 30.”
Also per OMB No. 1845-0021, schools must report all loan disbursements and submit required
records to the Direct Loan Servicing System (DLSS) via the COD System within 30 days of
disbursement. A monthly reconciliation process helps to identify and resolve discrepancies
between COD and the University’s records in Financial Aid, Student Financials, and the General
Ledger on a timely basis.
We have created this Direct Loan Reconciliation Process Guide to walk you through the
steps from obtaining the necessary information from COD and our PeopleSoft system all the
way through preparing the Direct Loan Reconciliations.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
STEP Description Page
STEP 1
Set School Account Summary (SAS) Report Options on the COD Website
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STEP 2
Run GL Inquiry Report to Obtain Month End Direct Loan Account Balances
4
STEP 3
Receive COD Direct Loan Reconciliation Files
7
STEP 4
Import COD Direct Loan Reconciliation Files into PeopleSoft
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STEP 5
Run UMS Financial Aid Direct Loan Reconciliation Program
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STEP 6
Prepare Direct Loan Reconciliations
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STEP 7
Access COD Drawdown Activity in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
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STEP 1: Set School Account Summary (SAS) Report Options on the COD Website
NOTE: Once SAS Report Options have been set up for a Direct Loan
Program’s Award Year, as stated below, skip STEP 1 and go
to STEP 2.
In order to receive reports from the COD System in formats useful in the reconciliation process,
each University needs to set certain report options on the COD website. The report options are
program and award year specific and should only have to be set once for each combination of
program and award year. It is very important to ensure these options are set correctly at the
beginning of an award year because prior period reports cannot be regenerated in the desired
format.
For those given access to the COD website,
Login and click School tab.
Enter your University’s Entity ID and click Search.
In the left navigation pane under School Information, click Report Selection.
Select Program “Direct Loan” and the applicable Award Year, i.e., “’11-‘12”.
Under the Award Year Specific Reports section, for the SAS reports, click Modify SAS
Options, which will bring you to the SAS Options screen. Set SAS Options as follows:
Report Fixed Length
Include Names of Borrowers No
Report Activity Type Both
Additionally, the “Sections of SAS to Receive” option should be set as follows: Summary by Loan Type Yes
Monthly Year-to-Date
Disbursement Detail Yes Yes
Loan Level (optional) N/A Yes
Once all the options have been selected, click Update button.
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STEP 2: Run GL Inquiry Report to Obtain Month End Direct Loan
Account Balances
In this step you will obtain the Direct Loan balances in the general ledger by generating a GL
Inquiry report.
Login to the Financials portion of MaineStreet and navigate to the GL Inquiry page.
Financials > University of Maine System > Financials > GL Inquiry
On the New GL Inquiry page, click on Find an Existing Value tab.
Either enter the name of an existing GL Inquiry Search ID and click on the Search button
OR click Search and select a Search ID from the search results. Either option will give
you the GL Inquiry Search ID screen.
Enter the Fiscal Year and Accounting Period for the month you are reconciling.
Enter the Business Unit, Department, and Fund Code for the chartfield combination(s)
under which the following Direct Loans Advanced accounts are recorded:
13150 - Direct Loans Advanced – No Class (Direct Loan - Drawdowns) 13150 - Direct Loans Advanced – Class 02 (Direct Loan – Subsidized) 13150 - Direct Loans Advanced – Class 03 (Direct Loan – Unsubsidized) 13150 - Direct Loans Advanced – Class 04 (Direct Loan – Plus)
Click on Search. The System will return each general ledger chartfield combination that
includes the business unit, department, and fund code you used as search criteria. You
need to reconcile each returned line that has a Direct Loan Project with an Eff Status –
Status other than “I – Closed”.
In the following illustration you would need to reconcile projects 1300115 and 1300125
because they both have a status other than “I-Closed”.
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Click on one of the applicable Direct Loan Projects and the System will bring you to a
page showing the current balances in Account 13150 - Direct Loans Advanced for the
selected project number (relates to Direct Loan Program Award Year).
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Print the above page.
Return to the search page and open the other returned lines for Direct Loan Projects
with an Eff Status – Status other than “I – Closed” and print the balances.
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STEP 3: Receive COD Direct Loan Reconciliation Files
During the first weekend of the month, COD sends the University (based on the report options
at the time the reports are run by COD) the following reports as of the end of the previous month
for each open Direct Loan Award Year in which you participate:
Monthly School Account Summary (SAS) – Disbursement Detail Report (DSDF12OP)
Year-to-Date School Account Summary (SAS) – Disbursement Detail Report
(DSDF12OP)
Year-to-Date School Account Summary (SAS) Award Loan Level Report (DSLF12OP)
Please note that the fifth and sixth characters in the report name indicate the Award Year. For
example, report DSLF12OP is for the 2011-2012 Award Year. Please also note that the two
SAS Disbursement Detail reports will have the same name.
These three files are to be received through your University’s Direct Lending Software (i.e.,
EDConnect, etc.). A designated individual at your University will receive these files to a specific
folder for import into PeopleSoft (discussed in STEP 4). When these files are saved, the
following changes need to be made to the COD file names to distinguish between the Monthly
SAS Disbursement Detail Report and the Year-to-Date SAS Disbursement Detail Report and to
identify the month for which the file was generated:
For the Monthly SAS Disbursement Detail Report, modify the COD filename by deleting
the “OP” and inserting the COD Sent Date “MMDDYY” followed by an “M”
For the Year-to-Date SAS Disbursement Detail Report, modify the COD filename by
deleting the “OP” and inserting the COD Sent Date “MMDDYY” followed by a “Y”
For the Year-to-Date SAS Award Loan Level Report, modify the COD filename by
deleting the “OP” and inserting the COD Sent Date “MMDDYY”.
The needed changes are summarized in the following table:
COD
Filename File Detail Description
COD Sent
Date Save File As
DSDF12OP Smaller file –
usually .dat file
Monthly SAS
Disbursement Detail
Report
02/04/2012 DSDF12020412M.dat
DSDF12OP Larger file –
usually .001 file
Year-to-Date SAS
Disbursement Detail
Report
02/04/2012 DSDF12020412Y.001
DSLF12OP .dat file Year-to-Date SAS Award
Loan Level Report 02/04/2012 DSLF12020412.dat
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STEP 4: Import COD Direct Loan Reconciliation Files into
PeopleSoft
In this step you will import the data from the three COD files (from STEP 3) into the PeopleSoft
Financial Aid system.
Login to the Campus Solutions portion of MaineStreet and navigate to the Import
Federal Data Files page.
Campus Solutions > Financial Aid > File Management > Import Federal Data Files
Select Run Option – Single File.
Select the Directory for your University, for example - UMS01.
Locate and select the Monthly SAS Disbursement Detail Report file (from STEP 3) for
the month you are reconciling. For example, for UMS01, the January Direct Loan
Reconciliation file to be imported into PeopleSoft would be named as follows:
DSDF12020412M.dat.
Click the Run button.
Once this file has finished uploading into PeopleSoft, STEP 4 will need to be performed
two more times to import the
Year-to-Date SAS Disbursement Detail Report file (DSDF12020412Y.001)
and
Year-to-Date SAS Award Loan Level Report file (DSLF12020412.dat).
/opt/soft/CSPRD/user_input/UMS01/dsdf12020412M.dat
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STEP 5: Run UMS Financial Aid Direct Loan Reconciliation Program
In this step you will run the Direct Loan Reconciliation Program “UMFADLRC” that compares
what is recorded as ‘disbursed’ in Financial Aid to what has been:
1. Posted in Student Financials.
2. Posted to the General Ledger.
3. Reported by COD as having been disbursed.
The differences identified in the generated report need to be researched and resolved, and
documented on the General Ledger Reconciliation worksheet (Exhibit II Form) reconciling the
General Ledger balances to the amounts reported on the COD reports.
To run the reconciliation program,
Within MaineStreet select Campus Solutions and navigate to the Run User SQRs page.
Campus Solutions > University of Maine System > Utilities > Run User SQRs
Click on Find an Existing Value tab and click Search.
Select the Run Control ID for “UMFADLRC”.
This program needs to be run for each Direct Loan Program in an open Award Year with
the parameters completed as follows:
AGGREGATE_AREA = Direct Loan Program (DIRECTSUB, DIRECTUNS, or
PLUS)
AID_YEAR = Open award year
AS_OF_DATE = Date for which you are preparing the reconciliation.
Generally, it will be the last day of the month.
COD_DATE = Month and year for which you are preparing the
reconciliation.
INSTITUTION = Your University’s PeopleSoft business unit number.
In the illustration on the next page we have selected to run the UMFADLRC program for UMA
(UMS01) as of January 31, 2012 for the Award Year 2012 Subidized Direct Loans
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Once the selected report has run, go to Process Monitor and click View Log/Trace. As
can be seen below, three PDF reports will be created specific to the Direct Loan
Program specified in the report parameters:
Direct_Subsidize_Exceptions_2012.PDF Direct_Subsidize_Summary_2012.PDF and Direct_Subsidize_Summary_Report_2012.PDF
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Examples of the above three reports are illustrated on the following pages.
Open and save these three reports for use in the Direct Loan Reconciliation process.
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Direct_Subsidize_Exceptions_2012.PDF
This report lists only those Direct Subsidized Loans that have a difference between FA/SF, FA/GL or FA/COD.
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Direct_Subsidize_Summary_2012.PDF
This report lists all Direct Subsidized Loans in FA, SF, GL or COD.
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Direct_Subsidize_Summary_Report_2012.PDF
This report (shown on the next page) displays two important totals that will be used later in the reconciliation process (see STEP 6) and
will be reported as the COD Balance per Detail:
COD Year-Date Detail Summary “Booked Net” totals for Subsidized, Unsubsidized and Plus loans. These totals represent the
loans advanced for each Direct Loan Program and will be used in the reconciliation of Account 13150 - Direct Loans Advanced,
Classes 02, 03 and 04, respectively.
COD Direct Lending “Total Net Cash Receipts”. This total represents total collective drawdowns for all three Direct Loan
Programs. This total will be used in the reconciliation of Account 13150 - Direct Loans Advanced, No Class.
This report also displays the totals from the last page of the Direct_Subsidize_Summary_2012.PDF report. The COD loan total on this
report should always equal the “Booked Net” amount under the COD Year-Date Detail Summary in this same report (in this example, the
Subsidized line). If the totals do not agree, it is an indication that not all COD transactions were included in the analyses performed by
our internal “UMFADLRC” program.
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STEP 6: Prepare Direct Loan Reconciliations
Using the following forms and reports, reconcile each of the four Direct Loan accounts (see
page 4 of this Guide) for each open Direct Loan Award Year:
Exhibit II (located on the web at
http://www.maine.edu/system/oft/GeneralLedgerCloseExhibits.php
GL Inquiry report from STEP 2 of this Guide – provides the ‘Balance per G/L’ on Exhibit
II
Summary_Report_20xx from STEP 5 of this Guide - provides the ‘Balance per Detail’
on Exhibit II
Exceptions_20xx report from STEP 5 of this Guide - provides the variances between
COD and the General Ledger
Causes for the variances between COD and the General Ledger need to be identified and
reported on Exhibit II. Corrective action should also be taken so that these variances do not
exist in future months. In STEP 7 we illustrative how to access certain COD information that
can be a useful resource during the reconciliation process.
Continuing with our illustration from STEP 5, on the next page we have included the Exhibit II
reconciliation for Direct Loans Advanced (Subsidized) Account 13150 - Class 02. The
boxed letters refer back to amounts illustrated in earlier steps in this document.
We have also illustrated the reconciliation for Account 13150 – No Class which represents the
total drawdowns for all three Direct Loan Programs.
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Sample Reconciliation of Direct Loans Advanced (Subsidized) Account 13150 - Class 02
The Direct_Subsidize_Exception_2012 Report previously illustrated provides the breakdown
by student of the $7,564 variance reported in the above reconciliation. You need to review that
report to determine whether or not further action is needed to ensure that the variances will
clear within the next month.
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Sample Reconciliation of Direct Loans Advanced (Drawdowns) Account 13150 - No Class
Note: We were able to identify the cause of the above $114 variance by following the process
described in STEP 7 of this Guide.
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STEP 7: Access COD Drawdown Activity in PeopleSoft Campus
Solutions
This step shows how you can access summary and detail COD Direct Loan activity through
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions in order to resolve reconciliation variances between COD and the
general ledger related to drawdowns (Account 13150 with No Class).
In STEP 6 we provided an illustration of the reconciliation for Direct Loans Advanced
(Drawdowns) Account 13150 - No Class. In that reconciliation, there was a variance of $114.30
between the ‘Balance per G/L’ and the ‘Balance per Detail’ (a.k.a. COD Direct Lending “Total
Net Cash Receipts”). Through PeopleSoft we accessed the cash transactions that make up the
COD ‘Balance per Detail’ reported in the reconciliation. Then by comparing these cash
transactions to activity in the general ledger, we found the variance to be a $114.00 cash
transaction that was posted to the general ledger in January but not posted to COD until
February.
Here is how you can access the COD Cash Detail and other COD information through
PeopleSoft:
Login to the Campus Solutions portion of MaineStreet and navigate to the DL School Account Summary page.
Campus Solutions > Financial Aid > Loans > DL School Account Summary
Select the appropriate DL SAS Import Report for the Award Year you want to view –
DLSAS Import 2011-2012.
On the Direct Loan Cash Sum Imp page, click on the Find an Existing Value tab.
Select Search by “EC Transaction ID”.
Click Search button.
The result is a listing of the data from the three COD SAS Reports previously imported
into PeopleSoft in STEP 4 of this Guide. Please note that the two DSDF12OP files were
imported using the same DL Batch ID for a given COD Sent Date. To differentiate
between the file that represents monthly activity versus year-to-date activity you need to
look at the EC Queue Instance. The lower instance number represents the monthly
activity.
Sort the listing by clicking on DL Batch ID header.
In the Search Results, scroll down the list until you find your University ID Number
embedded in the DL Batch ID column and locate the DSDF12OP file with the correct
COD Sent Date (embedded directly after the University ID Number in the DL Batch ID)
for the month you are reconciling.
To get to the January 31, 2012 COD information needed in our illustration, you would
locate the file with a COD Sent Date close to the beginning of February 2012, i.e.,
AS2G0676020120204203342.
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Both of the DSDF12OP files once opened will have tabs for “Batch Header”, “Cash
Summary”, “Disbursement Summary”, “Cash Detail”, “Loan Level Detail’, “Disbursement
Activity” and “Batch Trailer”. In our illustration we selected the EC Queue Instance “70”;
therefore, under the “Cash Detail” tab, we see all COD transactional activity for the
Award Year selected, as can be seen on the next page.
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By comparing the above transactions with the transactions in the general ledger for the
chart field combination we are reconciling (we have made the assumption that the
reader of this document knows how to use GL Inquiry to view the transactions in the
general ledger) we see a -$114.00 draw adjustment not reflected in the above COD
transactions. This amount is included on Exhibit II (see STEP 6) as a reconciling item.
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