Finance Training course timetable

This session will cover year end processes in more detail than the road shows and will include:

• Outline of the year end timetable to be followed
• Specific procedures and tasks for each module
• Guidance on journals especially accruals, prepayments and transfer codes
• Making better use of the Cognos reporting tool
• Exploring areas that often cause problems
• Practical advice on how to prioritise during key periods

Key Travel is the University’s preferred supplier for travel services and has recently linked up with Booking.com. This webinar is a great opportunity to find out more about how Key Travel can support you with your travel booking needs, how you can get the best out of their Online Booking Tool and the savings you could achieve.

This session covers how to make a financial plan, prepare it for upload to the finance system and monitor progress against the plan. It is a practical course which will look at the techniques and systems within the University that can be used for budgeting.

It is an ideal follow on from Managing the Budget Part 1 and for those who have a good working knowledge of budgeting principles and want to develop skills in using the University budgeting tools.

The Finance Division values the professionalism and commitment of its members and therefore encourages all staff to develop their skills and knowledge. This short session will outline for you the Division’s policy on training and development, as well as highlighting resources from across the University that you can utilise.

This course will enable the participants to practice existing spreadsheet skills and develop more advanced skills within the context of UFS data. There will be the opportunity to extract data from the system and learn to manipulate, analyse and use it for reporting purposes. The course runs over two sessions and participants will need to attend both of these sessions.

This course will concentrate on how to use the Cognos reporting tool to help manage departmental research grants. These reports can be divided into three main categories:

• Summary financial information for Projects
• Detailed expenditure analysis
• Management reports for Grants due to close

In this course we will not access the Grants module in CUFS.

To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Finance Division to some time with the Financial Systems Group to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.

This course enables users to learn the basics of how the General Ledger module works, how to run online account enquiries and how to process journals.

This session will walk the participant through in detail the activities involved with their chosen topic and provide an opportunity to ask questions and discuss any associations with their own role.

Following your provisional booking you will be asked which of the following topics you would like the session to concentrate on:

• Fixed Assets
• Lynxvale Limited Property Accounting
• Fees
• Trust Funds
• Research Accounting

An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with GHOST to gain an overview of their roles and a greater appreciation of what they do.

Tableau Server is an online application available to all members of the university to access Tableau dashboards and visualisations

Tableau Explorer is intermediate level access to Tableau Server and allows you to view, interact and edit Tableau content.

This welcome session is for staff based in Greenwich House, will introduce you to the practicalities working in the building and the resources available to you.

The floor plans for both the ground floor and first floor of Greenwich House can be to find a specific room;

https://www.greenwich-house.admin.cam.ac.uk/building

This is only open to staff who have a role within finance at the University.

Places will be awarded on a first come, first served basis.

The session will look at more advanced formulas and macros using the recorder and VBA tools.

This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders.

iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.

An overview of the role of Central and Research Accounting and a taster of the range of the activities that they are involved with.

This session is a required pre-requisite for attendance on the detailed walk-through sessions for any of the following topics:

• Fixed Assets
• Lynxvale Limited Property Accounting
• Fee collection
• Trust Funds
• Research Accounting

This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders.

iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.

Cognos is a reporting tool that utilises data from CUFS to provide users with additional reports and options. This master class is designed to get existing CUFS users going with the reporting tool. It covers everything from running a report successfully as well as a number of useful tips and shortcuts.

Note: What it does not do is go through in detail the outputs of each individual report. Less experienced users of the Grants and/or General Ledger modules in CUFS are recommended to attend instead one of the following courses:

• Grants Part 2: Grant reports in Cognos
• General Ledger Reporting

These two courses not only cover the mechanics of running the reports but also more advice on how to interpret and use the information as well as discussion about when to use which report.

This course covers the various month-end processes that need to be completed within the iProcurement module.

This course covers the various month-end processes that need to be completed within the iProcurement module.

Tableau Server is an online application available to all members of the university to access Tableau dashboards and visualisations.

Tableau Viewer is entry level access to Tableau Server and allows you to view Tableau content created by others.

The Finance Division values the professionalism and commitment of its members and therefore encourages all staff to develop their skills and knowledge. This short session will outline for you the Division’s policy on training and development, as well as highlighting resources from across the University that you can utilise.

Key Travel is the University’s preferred supplier for travel services and has recently linked up with Booking.com. This webinar is a great opportunity to find out more about how Key Travel can support you with your travel booking needs, how you can get the best out of their Online Booking Tool and the savings you could achieve.