SMART Finance News You Can Use

The new FY 2019 Revenue Projection Model is now available on MDE’s website. http://w20.education.state.mn.us/MDEAnalytics/DataTopic.jsp?TOPICID=247.  If you would like assistance working on next year’s revenue budget, send Stacy or Wayne your FY19 pupil estimates.  We will use those pupil estimates to create a revenue budget using the Budget Workpapers in SMART Finance.If you are working with the FY 2019 Revenue Projection Model, note the following: On the User Inputs tab, ...

Do you have some accounts that haven’t been used for a few years and are no longer needed?  Follow these steps to get a list of unused accounts: Run the Budget Workpapers including both types E and R Extract to Excel In Excel, sort the spreadsheet by all the columns that have dollar amounts to view accounts without activity Delete all accounts that you want to keep. Save the spreadsheet Send the spreadsheet to Region 1 and we will shut off the accountsOr, ask someone in finance at Reg...

Just a reminder that the deadline for UFARS, SERVS, and EDRS reconciliation is November 30th.  Contact Stacy or Alison if you need assistance. Below is a sample of a new Special Education comment that can be used on Purchase Orders or Requisitions.  If you want to add this comment or change an existing special education comment go to Administration > Access > Auto Comments.  Contact us if you need help. 

A new version of the FY 2018 Revenue Projection Model is now available on MDE’s website.  If you would like assistance working on next year’s revenue budget, contact Ali, Stacy, or Wayne for different options to help you prepare your FY18 revenue budget.  We like to incorporate the Smart Finance Budget Workpapers into the budgeting process.

If you are using Online Requests in SMARTeR please note the following change:All employees now have permission to make requests in SMARTeR.  We no longer have to add security for employees one at a time for them to see the Online Request window.

Closing Periods, Revenue Budgeting for FY18 and Housecleaning!

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