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April 2022

05 April 2022

Entering Requisitions for Next Year (FY22-23)

If your district wants to create requisitions for FY22-23 in SMARTeR, the Accounting Calendar in SMART Finance needs to be opened through July. To create a requisition for FY22-23, enter 07/01/2022 in the Date required field of the requisition entry screen. This will change the GL period to 202301 on the detail lines of the requisition. (Note: Depending on the security level, the person entering the requisition may not see the GL Period.)When the requisition is transferred to...

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March 2022

03 March 2022

Using and Changing Batch Numbers

If you want to review, add, change or delete a batch number, click on the window icon and select Batch. From the action menu, New and Find can be used. Batch numbers can be generic and reused if don’t want to create new batch numbers each month.

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03 March 2022

Using Budget Workpapers for the FY23 Budget

The SMART Finance Budget Workpapers can be a very useful tool for completing the FY23 budget. Here are some of the features that can be used: For both revenue and expense, as a starting point, copy the FY22 budget to FY23. For revenues, highlight the rows that have been addressed/changed by clicking the box in front of the account. This will cause the line to highlight in yellow. For expenses, increase all accounts or ranges of account by a specified percent. For example, increase al...

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03 March 2022

Need to Change Expense or Revenue Accounts for UFARS Requirements? Did You Know...

We have an Account Code Conversion program. If you have accounts that need to be changed (especially pandemic grant accounts), the account conversion program will allow mass changes with a single parameter line. The new accounts are built, the budget/actual is moved from the old accounts to the new accounts and the old accounts are shutoff. Region 1 runs this program for you. If you have a need for this, contact someone in Finance.

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03 March 2022

Revenue Budgeting for FY23

A FY23 Revenue Projection Model is now available. This model has the correct FY23 levy data, but, most of the aid estimates on the State Aids tab are from FY22. The Whatif will be updated later this spring as new estimates become available. The Revenue Projection Model is available on MDE’s website using this link: https://public.education.mn.gov/MDEAnalytics/DataTopic.jsp?TOPICID=247If you would like assistance working on next year’s revenue budget, send Stacy, Kameron, or Wayne you...

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February 2022

04 February 2022

FY22 UFARS Manual

The new FY22 UFARS Manual is available on MDE’s web site. Click on this link to review, print, or save to your desktop a copy of each chapter. http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/dse/schfin/fin/UFARS/ Yes, you have to review or print one chapter at a time. Chapter 4 has the new Covid finance dimensions descriptions. Chapter 10, starting with page 15, has the valid code combinations for all finance dimensions including the new Covid codes.

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04 February 2022

Revenue Budgeting Review

With the enrollment fluctuations and unexpected Covid revenue, now might be a good time to review both revenue and expenditure budgets for FY22. On the revenue side, note the following: Compare your current enrollment with the enrollment used to prepare the original budget. If there are material differences, use MDE’s revenue projection model to review/change the revenue budget. Review/update the Covid grant accounts with latest revenue estimates. (Make sure you have expen...

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04 February 2022

Closing Periods

At the end of February, we will update the Account Calendar by closing the first 6 months of FY22. If needed, you may reopen any of the periods that we closed.

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January 2022

07 January 2022

Federal COVID Funding Flowchart

MDE has updated the COVID Funding summary document that includes the latest finance dimensions. This document is very helpful sorting out the UFARS requirements for COVID financial reporting. Pay particular attention to the required course numbers for grants that cross fiscal years.Here is the link for the MDE page that has the document. Federal Relief Funds (mn.gov) Scroll to the bottom of the page.

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07 January 2022

Student Activity Accounts

If you need a new Student Activity Account, you could recycle an old account that is not being used. Just change the descriptions in the Account Code setup window. This is much easier than building new accounts, account classifications and fund balances.

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