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REMINDER! August Month-End Close Deadline: Validated campus journal entries and data collect batches (journal imports) should be received by Accounting Services by close of business on (5 p.m.) Thursday, August 31. Please remember that accounting will not receive the journal entries until the journal has been budget checked valid and has passed through all required approvals (including OSR, if necessary).
For details on month-end close procedures, see the Accounting Services webpage. Bookmark this page to see the latest info in between updates.
NEW! Census Outage Wednesday, September 6: As part of the Fall 2017 Census activities, there will be an outage of the Student Administration component of ConnectCarolina on Wednesday, September 6 from 5:00 p.m. until 12:00 a.m. Applications may experience limited or no functionality. For more information, see ccinfo news.
NEW! Improvement of OSR Pre-Audit Approvals: The ConnectCarolina Team has been working closely with the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) to make OSR Pre-Audit approvals more efficient. Effective September 1, some transactions that used to require OSR Pre-Audit approval no longer will, and vice versa. For more information, see the August 22 memo at UNC Research.
NEW! Advance Notice of New Look for Paystub: Beginning in October, your paystub will have a new look that provides more information about earnings and deductions. For more information, see the August 29 memo. A preview of the paystub and a quick reference guide is available online at http://go.unc.edu/paystub/. Communications to all employees via Formal Notice emails and employee paystub notification emails will be sent in advance of the change.
REMINDER! Subscribing to Business Managers listserv: Finance and accounting personnel who would like to subscribe to the business managers listserv can do so by following the instructions at https://finance.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/298/2016/09/joinbusinessmgr.pdf.
Questions
Users should utilize the Business Systems Help Desk when they are unsure who to contact for issue resolution. This is the fastest way to obtain assistance and allows the project team to be able to track issues to determine the scale of the impact to all users. Users can reach the Business Systems Help Desk at 919-962-HELP or via a remedy ticket submitted online at help.unc.edu (select ConnectCarolina > ConnectCarolina Finance > the appropriate area of concern).
Suggestions for content can be emailed to financecomm@unc.edu.