Communications: New FRS and UIS Training Offered

 

The Financial Services Office is working with the Information Warehouse Office and the Arizona Health Sciences Center to offer campus-wide UIS training. UIS/FRS classes will be available in late March and UIS/SIS and UIS/PSOS classes will be available later in the Spring. An announcement will be sent to the UIS and FRS listservs when the class dates have been confirmed. Please note that the FRS Reports, Reconciliations and Corrections class listed below will be a prerequisite to the FRS/UIS training.

In addition, FRS training classes have been restructured as follows: FRS Accounting Structures has been redesigned and is a prerequisite for two new classes: FRS Expenditure Policy and FRS Reports, Reconciliations and Corrections.

 

• FRS Accounting Structures will focus on:

  
  

  • Basic accounting terminology

  • What debits and credits are and how they relate to FRS

  • FRS account numbering

  • Sources of funding

  • FRS accounting screens 

  • Basic FRS account management requirements
     

• FRS Expenditure Policy is recommended for people who will be processing or approving departmental transactions in accordance with UA administrative UA Business Community. In this class you will:

  
  

  • Learn how to process transactions by determining allowability, the appropriate account, object code and document to use

  • Learn the how, what, whys and where's of the Check Request
     

• FRS Reports, Reconciliations and Corrections is recommended for people who will be working with FRS reports and/or will be reconciling and correcting their accounts. This class will replace FRS Reconciliation and SL Report Interpretation classes which have been discontinued. In this class you will:

  
  

  • Learn how to read FRS Reports FBM090, Account Statements and FBMO91, Report of Transactions for a subsidiary ledger account

  • Learn how to reconcile your records to FRS reports and screens

  • Learn when to complete a Request for Accounting Assistance (RFAA) or Payroll Expense Transfer (PET)

  • Learn how to complete an RFAA.

  
  

  Note: This class is a prerequisite for FRS/UIS training.

Please sign up for these classes at https://www.fso.arizona.edu/isw/default.asp?app=training. If you are
familiar with FRS Accounting Structures and would like to have it waived as a prerequisite, contact the instructor, Cindy Robison, at robisonc@arizona.edu.