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The University of Nebraska - Kearney schedules training workshops for staff for such applications as SAP Basic Navigation, Firefly Reporting, Human Resources, Payroll, Procure-to-Pay processes, Purchasing Card Policies & Reconciliation, eShop, Travel Management, Cash Receipt Handling, Budget and Financial Report/Reconciling, and other Business & Finance topics. Workshop topics are continually updated.
Registration is required.
Contact (bftraining@unk.edu) for more info.
This session will provide an overview of the departmental budget, access to annual July 1 departmental budget listings on the University’s website, permanent versus temporary budget, review of budgeted positions, budget status and budget transfer process.
Prerequisite: BW/BI Reporting
Instructor: Chris Moran, morancl@unk.edu, 308-865-8202 or Sharie Waller, wallersl@unk.edu, 308-865-8191
This workshop provides hands on training in viewing basic Firefly portal reports for fund centers (cost centers and WBS elements). The reports can assist the user in managing their department budget and viewing detail transactions posted against their budget.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology is helpful but not required.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This workshop will provide guidance to departments on the types of policies and procedures that should be in place regarding cash received. The session will also explain the steps necessary to deposit money into a University account.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology. The workshop is available upon request.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This workshop will outline procedures and schedules for fiscal year end processing including concurrent year parked document processing and journal entry processing, accrual adjustments, budget encumbrances and balances carried forward, procurement card processing and more. Dates to be determined but workshop is offered in March or April of each year.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This workshop will provide guidance to departments who have been awarded a grant or contract. The session will outline how to establish a cost object for the award, how to request budget revisions, how to track and monitor matching dollars, how indirect costs recovered are distributed, how to submit periodic financial reports, time and effort reporting and more. The process for paying expenses from a Foundation account will also be covered. Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology. The workshop is available upon request.
Instructor: Debbie Tvrdy, tvrdyds@unk.edu, 308-865-8808
This session provides training on how to navigate through PeopleAdmin. This training will also include how to create a job posting and how to manage applicants.
Instructor: Meredith DeHaven, dehavenm2@unk.edu, 308-865-8516
This training covers how to complete HR/SAP Payroll forms, time reports, and other procedures to process personnel records.
Instructor: Tomomi Lowry, lowryta@unk.edu, 308-865-8182
This workshop will explain the difference between a journal entry and a budget transfer and when each should be used. The session will also explain the steps necessary to complete a journal entry and budget transfer.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology and Reading Department Financial Reports. The workshop is available upon request.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
Workshop highlights on-line financial reports available in SAP or Firefly that can assist chairs, directors and others with fiscal responsibility in managing their department budgets. The class will cover basic navigation and content of the reports but will be loosely structured to allow participants to ask questions and concentrate on the areas that interest them most. Workshop available upon request.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This workshop will provide an overview of how to read the department financial reports generated in SAP or Firefly.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This workshop is for the more advanced SAP user. It provides hands on training in creating and using selection variants and display layouts. A selection variant allows you to generate a report repeatedly without having to re-enter the cost centers, WBS elements or other selection criteria. Display layouts allow users to customize the organization and content of the detail line items report and save the layout for future use.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology, SAP Navigation and SAP Basic Financial Reporting.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This workshop provides hands on training in generating basic on-line SAP reports for cost centers and WBS elements. The reports can assist the user in managing their department budget and viewing detail transactions posted against their budget.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology and SAP Navigation.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
The Online Reconciliation process allows departments to add an online check off once financial transactions charged to cost centers and WBS elements have been reconciled. It is simple and may eliminate the need to print reports to reconcile.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology, SAP Navigation and SAP Basic Financial Reporting.
Instructor: Scott Olson, olsons2@unk.edu, 308-865-8524
This session trains a selected few who enter personnel information electronically into SAP. Since there are a limited number of these HR/SAP end users, the training would be scheduled as there are turnovers in the positions.
Instructor: Tomomi Lowry, lowryta@unk.edu, 308-865-8182
This workshop is designed to give purchasing card reconcilers hands-on practice in the use of the SAP purchasing card reconciliation procedures and reports. All Reconcilers should also complete the PCard Policy and Procedure training to become familiar with allowed transactions, document retention, disputed charges, etc as this is an integral part of the reconciliation process. Class format consists of brief discussion followed by a supervised practice session.
Prerequisites: SAP Navigation, Bill Paying Process, PCard Policies/Procedures
Instructor: Carrie Stithem, carrie.stithem@nebraska.edu, 308-865-8865
This workshop is for the more advanced SAP user. It assists departments in implementing project accounting. Project Accounting is a term used to describe the further breakdown of cost centers by departments in an effort to track and report on projects or activities. Tools available include parent/child cost centers, the user defined field and editing line item text.
Prerequisite: Accounting Terminology, SAP Navigation and SAP Basic Financial Reporting.
Instructor: Jill Purdy, purdyj@unk.edu, 308-865-8421
This session trains a selected few on how to enter time electronically into SAP. Since there are a limited number of time entry end users, the training would be scheduled as there are turnovers in the positions.
Instructor: Tomomi Lowry, lowryta@unk.edu, 308-865-8182
During any given month or year, the reality of an active shooter will strike somewhere. If that somewhere is where you are you'll need the proper mindset and tools to react with purpose to maximize your chance of survival. This course will assist you in getting that mindset. Instructors will discuss what options an individual has in those fleeting moments, what university policy and procedures are in place, and what options individuals have to help prevent such incidents.
Instructor: Sergeant Ricci Fast, fastrj@unk.edu, 308-865-8517
The UNK police department offers free training to the men and women who are affiliated with UNK. Participants will learn hands on techniques as well as partake in classroom discussions.
Instructor: Sergeant Ricci Fast, fastrj@unk.edu, 308-865-8517
This program teaches ways to protect property from theft and vandalism. During the course an engraving tool is available to individuals to mark valuables. This nationally recognized identification procedure has been shown to facilitate the recovery of stolen items. Police and Parking Services provides a handout to assist in keeping a record of serial numbers and other information of valuable items kept on campus to aid identification and recovery. The engraver is maintained by Police and Parking Services and may be checked out for individual use at the Parking Office in the General Services Building.
Instructor: Sergeant Ricci Fast, fastrj@unk.edu, 308-865-8517
This program offers objectives of what is a sexual assault, effects of a sexual assault, preservation of evidence, and prevention. This class will educate participants on the dangers and the realities of sexual assaults among college age students.
Instructor: Sergeant Ricci Fast, fastrj@unk.edu, 308-865-8517
Informational workshop on work place violence. Recognizing and reporting signs indicating a potentially violent co-worker, employee or student. Developing codes within your office regarding potentially dangerous subjects and tips on de-escalating volatile situations. Referral systems for help with students and co-workers.
Instructor: Sergeant Ricci Fast, fastrj@unk.edu, 308-865-8517
