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2018 Travel Mileage Updates

February 16, 2018

Effective Jan. 1, 2018, university travelers are obligated to use a State-owned vehicle or vehicle leased through a state contract. When such vehicle is not available, and/or a personal vehicle must be used, the allowable business standard mileage rate is 54.5 cents per mile for trips that do not exceed 100 miles. For business travel trips that utilize personal vehicles and exceed 100 miles per trip, the employee shall be reimbursed at 33 cents per mile.

Enterprise Rental Car Billing

February 12, 2018

To: University Business Managers From: Melanie Wright, Accounting and Customer Billing Director, Finance and Operations Date: February 12, 2018 Please be aware that Enterprise Rental Car (ENT) charges to campus have experienced a delay.  Unfortunately, we recently became aware that billings … Read more

Update to Vendor Bank Accounts

February 8, 2018

On January 29, The News & Observer published an article about Appalachian State University’s financial loss caused by scammers who falsified vendor banking information in a money laundering scheme: http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/NewsAndObserver/default.aspx

To tighten our own policies, Finance Procedure 1218.1, Determining Vendor Documentation, has been updated to include how changes to vendor bank accounts should be reported to Disbursement Services through Campus Vendor.

FedEx Shipping and Billing

February 8, 2018

The University has a master contract with FedEx that includes a discounted rate for FedEx via the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). These charges are paid to FedEx centrally and billed to you via CBM (Customer Billing Management). If you have a FedEx account that is billed directly to you, please contact Ammar Yameen, Director of Strategic Supply, at yameen@email.unc.edu to have your account linked to the UNC-CH master account.

MOU Leads: ePro Order Cancellations

February 6, 2018

To:  eProcurement Users From: Ammar Yameen, Director of Strategic Supply As the eProcurement platform is expanding at UNC-Chapel Hill, we want to remind you about the process for ePro order cancellation. Canceling an ePro order/purchase order through the vendor will … Read more

Voucher Change Webinar

January 10, 2018

To:  MOU Financial Leads, Business Managers From:  The Connect Carolina Team If you submit vouchers, you likely know that the funds are reserved as soon as you budget check the voucher. If a voucher doesn’t get approved, it can take … Read more

MOU Leads: CBM data file update

January 9, 2018

To:  MOU Financial Leads From:  Melanie Wright, Accounting and Customer Billing Director, SCE Starting with the next CBM data file submission, which is estimated to be Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, charges from the Carolina Inn will be separated into two … Read more

CC Finance Update – Dec. 13

December 13, 2017

Please share with the ConnectCarolina Finance users in your school/division. Updates are sent on an as-needed basis. Top Issues NEW! November Month-End Close:  Central offices have officially closed for the month of November.  This includes the transmission and reconciliation of … Read more