Year-end Planning • Key Changes• Accruals• Receiving• P-Cards• Roles/Responsibilities• Handout

• Year-end calendar1

• Open/Standing Purchase Orders – batch close process will run on June 30

• Retrofits (DPRs), TERs, and PO Invoices – in BSC by June 26• Allow 2 days for intercampus mail

• Receiving in CUBuyplus® completed by July 2• Receiving date in CUBuyplus® must reflect actual

date goods received on campus or services were performed

Key Changes

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• Journal Entries

• To Accounting Services by noon on July 3

• Expense accruals by end of day July 8

• Key date communication

• Banner Finance listserv and CUBuyplus® active users • http://www.creighton.edu/finance/controller/ generalaccounting/yearendinformation/index.php

Key Changes

Recording Expenses

• Why?• Shorten our year-end close cycle• Opportunity to accelerate the external audit • System functionality

• Background• Accounts Payable remained open for up to 3 weeks to

record June activity • Invoices were recorded based on invoice date and receipt

of goods and/or service

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Process change for recording expenses – accrual vs. real time.

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• Banner • Three purchase order dates

• Order date – date order was generated• Delivery date • Transaction date – used to determine

accounting period for encumbrance• Two invoice dates

• Vendor invoice date• Transaction date-used to determine

accounting period (month and fiscal year) for expenses

Recording Expenses

Recording Expenses• CUBuyplus®

• Dates• Order approved/created date• Order date- day order received final approval• Delivery date • Receiving date – day that goods received on

campus or services were performed • Ongoing change – not just for fiscal year-end

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How will accruals be determined?

Accrual rules established by order type• CUBuyplus® has different order types

• Standard Order/Release Order

• Retrofit/Standard Release Retrofit

• Blanket Order

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Accrual by Order Type• Standard Order or Release Order

• Accrual based on receiving date and receiving status• Received in June or earlier and invoice not yet received• Invoice date is June and entered in July• Invoice has been received and order is ‘Pending

Receiving’ Example:

• Order approved/created: 4/5/13• Order date: 4/05/13 (always the same except for

retrofits)• Received: 6/30/13• Invoice dated: 7/10/13• Will be recorded as July expense in Banner• June expense accrual will be processed

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How will accruals be determined?• Retrofit or Standard Release Retrofit

• Accrued when invoice date and order created date cross months

• Receiving is automatic (same as DPRs were for Banner)

Example:• Order approved/created: 4/5/13• Order date = Invoice date of: 3/25/13• Received: 4/5/13 • Invoice dated: 3/25/13• Will be recorded as April expense in Banner• March expense accrual will be processed

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How will accruals be determined?

• Blanket Order• No accrual needed• Accruals based on Release Order or

Standard Release Retrofit• Special Handling Accruals

• Utilities, service/legal type invoices, sub-contractors, etc.

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Receiving• End user is responsible for receiving• Three receiving components

• Date• Pre-populates with current date• Date should be back dated to date goods received

on campus or services were performed• Quantity

• Pre-populates with order quantity• Quantity should be updated as needed for partial

delivery• Note section – for optional use as needed

• Receiving available at order or line level11

Order Level

Line Item

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Receiving• How does a user navigate receiving?

• Covered in training• Reference Browser Guide, pages 13-17

• BSC Specialist can assist with questions• How does a user know what needs to be received?

• User should complete receiving for all purchase orders• CUBuyplus® will send an email if items have not been

received when an invoice is entered• For year-end, a report will be sent out showing what is

open by area• Ongoing process - TBD

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P-Cards• Transactions must post by June 24 for fiscal year

• Normal time between purchase and posting is 2 days

• Offline merchants can take up to 10 days between purchase and posting

• Billing cycle closes – June 24• Last day to turn in receipts – June 27• Last day for approvals – June 28

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Roles/Responsibilities• Departments

• Invoices • Ongoing - send timely to BSC• Year-end - invoices/TERs to BSC by June 26

• Receiving • Ongoing - complete receiving in a timely manner• Year-end - receiving should be completed by July 2

• Submit an accrual for items • Delivered to campus by June 30 and not received in

CUBuyplus® • When invoice has not been sent to BSC• When service has been provided and not yet invoiced 15

Roles/Responsibilities • Business Service Center

• Goal to have retrofits entered into CUBuyplus® by June 28

• TERs entered into Banner by June 28• Invoices received by BSC and not entered

into CUBuyplus® will be accrued

• Accounting Services• Process accrual journal entries

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Next Steps• Communicate with your departments

• Key year-end dates• Importance of timely receiving• Importance of turning P-Card receipts in timely• Communicate with Accounting Services and

BSC• Ongoing

• Encourage ordering versus retrofits• Encourage timely receiving• Monitoring of receiving will be ongoing 17