Finance Training course timetable

To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Ops to spend half a day in the Shared Services and Staff Bureau to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.

To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Ops to spend a day in the Accounting Services Team to get an overview and appreciation of the function of the Helpdesk and Cashier.

To provide an opportunity for those in the Finance Division to spend half a day with the Training Team to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.

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.

Looking at a template to write business cases, to provide information on what to include, for lightweight business cases and more detailed business cases. Providing some hints and tips to assist with business case writing.

To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Division to spend half a day in the Treasury & Investments Team to get an overview and appreciation of what they do. The Treasury & Investments team are offering two sessions, one on Treasury and one on Investments. Ideally the Treasury session should be attended before this one (Investments) however this is not a pre-requisite.

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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

Topics covered:

• Extracting data from CUFS and COGNOS
• Basic formatting
• Basic formulas
• Navigating large spreadsheets
• Advanced formulas
• Conditional formatting
• Data validation
• Protecting cells and sheets
• Lookup function
• Pivot tables
• Charts and graphs
• Using data in other documents

This course covers the day to day and month end transactions that need to be completed using a variety of tools in CUFS.

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.

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.

From 6 April 2017 new rules will apply to payments made to limited companies largely controlled by a single individual where they provide services to the University, or agencies providing such resource to the University. The Finance Division is holding a number of seminars to explain procedures and guidelines that they are implementing to help departments manage this risk.

To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Ops to spend half a day in the Shared Services and Staff Bureau to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.

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

Topics covered:

• Extracting data from CUFS and COGNOS
• Basic formatting
• Basic formulas
• Navigating large spreadsheets
• Advanced formulas
• Conditional formatting
• Data validation
• Protecting cells and sheets
• Lookup function
• Pivot tables
• Charts and graphs
• Using data in other documents

Have you previously attended Cognos training but not used the reporting tool since and would like to start using the tool again? If so then this course will enable you to get re-acquainted with Cognos..

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 COGNOS Reporting
• 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.

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To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Ops to spend a day in the Accounting Services Team to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.

The AAT Level 3, Diploma in Accounting, introduces to students to more complex financial processes and accounting tasks, the principles of VAT, professional ethics and develops their spreadsheet skills.

To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Fin Ops to spend a day in the Accounting Services Team to get an overview and appreciation of the function of the Helpdesk and Cashier.

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

Topics covered:

• Extracting data from CUFS and COGNOS
• Basic formatting
• Basic formulas
• Navigating large spreadsheets
• Advanced formulas
• Conditional formatting
• Data validation
• Protecting cells and sheets
• Lookup function
• Pivot tables
• Charts and graphs
• Using data in other documents

A bespoke session to provide an overview and guidance on how VAT applies to Research Grants. Including:

• How to establish the correct VAT rate to attribute to an award when it is set up in CUFS
• Why it is so important
• How the VAT rate attributed affects expenditure subsequently coded to the grant