BU$INE$$ MATTER$ August, 2003 Colleagues: The August 2003 Financial Management System (FMS) reports EXCLUDING the FMS-M910 and the June and July re-run of the FMS-M900 are now available to you. Be sure to read BU$INE$$ MATTER$ below for important information related to your reports and other Finance Division services. To access your reports and other enterprise business system services, open the following URL: http://www.finance.ohiou.edu/portal Enter your OAK ID and password for access. If you are having trouble locating your OAK ID, please refer to the following link and follow the instructions there: http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/youroakid.html On your main menu, select "OU FMS Reporting" then "FMS Reports". When you select a report, the PDF file will be downloaded and opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you have accessibility issues contact Frontline at 7-8000 or at frontline@ohio.edu. We recommend you view the reports on-line and utilize Acrobat Reader's "Find" feature to navigate. If you have further questions or comments, please contact: Tanya Bibler at 7-1417 or biblert@ohio.edu Diane Lucas at 7-1380 or lucasd1@ohio.edu April Henderson at 3-1864 or hendersa@ohio.edu BU$INE$$ MATTER$ P-CARD:P-card transactions posted through August 7 are in your August reports. M910:The M910 for August has not yet been released as it is going through some revisions. We will notify you when it is made available. SEPTEMBER REPORTS: September reports will run next week and should be distributed late next week or early the following. BROWSER: If you are currently using FMS or accessing your reports successfully, please do not upgrade your browser. It seems we have run into problems accessing reports and FMS with the most recent browser versions. Please be sure to contact Frontline at 597-8000 or at frontline@ohio.edu if you experience any difficulties. MEETING: The next Campus Financial Meeting will be held Tuesday, October 21 from 3-4 in the Human Resources and Training Center room 141/145. BUDGET INCLUDED:The budget included in the August reports reflects both the purchase order carryforward budget and your original budget load. The FY 03 carryforward budgets have NOT yet been loaded. You can expect to see these in your October reports. RI ACCOUNTS:Research Incentive accounts will be brought up to date in September for FY 04 activity. This will include your budget amounts for the months of July, August, and September. Carryforward from FY 03 will be loaded in October. Also, we are aware of some issues from May and June that will be corrected in October. IMPORTANT:All FMS reports are distributed via the web and notification of when reports are available for viewing is communicated via email. Our email list contains recipient oak addresses only. If you typically use an email system other than oak, please make sure your oak address is forwarded appropriately so you receive this communication. Instructions on how to forward your oak email can be found on the CNS webpage at www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/ and click on “E-mail Forwarding” under “Manage Your Account”.