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Top Issues
REMINDER! December Month-End Close Deadline: Validated campus journal entries and data collect batches (journal imports) should be received by Accounting Services by close of business (5 p.m.) Friday, December 21. 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! Attention P-Card Reconcilers: P-Card reconciliations need to be completed by 4:30 p.m. Thursday, December 20.
NEW! Airgas and Arc 3 deliveries during winter break: Airgas and Arc3 announced its winter holiday schedule and reduced hours until January 1. Please note that action will be required on your orders if you need dry ice or cylinders during holiday hours, and some items need ordering in advance. See the Dec. 17 memo for details.
NEW! TIM Deadlines and Bonus 2018 Reminder. Instructions regarding SHRA employee timecards for biweekly periods 13 and 14 are provided in the December 18 memo, as well as information on Bonus 2018 Leave as well as an attachment regarding Holiday Reminders and University Closed Days.
REMINDER! Support for ConnectCarolina, InfoPorte, and University Services Systems Over the Holidays. If you need to work while the University is closed and encounter an issue, you can submit a help ticket by calling 919-962-HELP or through help.unc.edu. From Saturday, December 22 through January 1, the ConnectCarolina team will review critical tickets on a case-by-case basis and respond if the ticket cannot wait until after the break. The team will respond to routine tickets after the holidays.
REMINDER! GSHIP Winter Announcement. Graduating students or those who are withdrawing or no longer working need to be terminated in ConnectCarolina before December 21. New hires must have their paperwork submitted by December 19. For more details, see the December 9 memo.
REMINDER! Campus Deposit Deadlines for Year-End: Following adjusted deadlines related to the December 2018 month-end processing of cash, checks, credit card and electronic payments submitted through the Cashier’s Office, please note that several dates of submission are impacted. All cash/check deposits submitted in ConnectCarolina in December 2018 must be received by 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. For details on credit card/electronic payments, see the December 5 memo.
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 http://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.