GL Part 2: Reporting in the General Ledger

Prerequisites

• We are not currently able to run classroom courses, there is a virtual alternative for this course which you are welcome to book onto https://training.cam.ac.uk/course/fin-virt-gl2

• This course provides users the opportunity to run General Ledger reports and how to interpret them when managing departmental funds.

• You are invited to bring with you any reference documents that you may have detailing your own departmental codes.

Departmental accounts staff and those responsible for managing departmental finances.

Your booking will remain 'provisional' until you have completed the following prerequisites:

• completed the GL Part 1: Getting Started in the General Ledger course
• been given a Live GL responsibility in CUFS
• completed the Cognos Introduction course
• completed the pre-course questions that will be emailed out to you a few days before the course. These must be returned to the trainer for review by the date given in the email.

Upon completion of all prerequisites, your booking for the course will be approved.

• Generate and discuss the standard reports required for monitoring departmental finances
• Look at common items that appear on reports and what they mean
• Discuss some of the common mistakes to look out for when reviewing departmental accounts
• In UFS, copy, re-print and cancel reports that you have set to run
• Learn how to use basic Cognos tools

To run various General Ledger reports, using both Cognos and UFS, to monitor departmental accounts and interpret the data.

The session will be a mixture of presentation, demonstrations and hands on practice.

• Lunch is not provided.

One day session.

Every other month

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