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Fri 1 Sep 2023 – Tue 19 Sep 2023

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Friday 1 September 2023

11:00
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 11:00 - 11:30 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

11:30
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 11:30 - 12:00 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

Monday 4 September 2023

11:00

When waste producers need to dispose their end product, they need to complete the pre-acceptance form, identifying as much as waste possible for SAFE transit & disposal. This session will look at how to complete the form correctly.

Tuesday 5 September 2023

12:00
Concur – Acting as a Delegate new Finished 12:00 - 12:20 Via MS Teams

A short briefing on how to act as a delegate using the desktop SAP Concur client. This will cover:

  • Who may act as a delegate for others
  • The type of claims you may prepare for others
  • How to switch roles and enter information
  • The submission process
15:00
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 15:00 - 15:30 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

Wednesday 6 September 2023

09:30
Virtual - How to Excel - Part 1 & 2 (For Finance Staff) (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Via MS Teams

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.

Thursday 7 September 2023

09:30
Virtual - Cognos Introduction (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 10:45 Via MS Teams

Cognos is a reporting tool that utilises data from CUFS to provide users with additional reports and options. This introductory course is designed for new reporters - covering everything from running a report successfully as well as a number of useful tips and shortcuts.

Note: This course is mandatory in order to attend either of the following two courses below.

What this introductory course does not do is go through in detail the outputs of each individual report. Report outputs are explained in further detail in the courses above.

Cannot make any dates? See the on-demand online version of the course. Completion of this course will count as Cognos attendance for the purpose of acceptance onto the above courses. You should ask your Key Contact to request Cognos access for you, prior to working through the on-demand material.

Friday 8 September 2023

09:30
Virtual - Cognos Introduction (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 10:45 Via MS Teams

Cognos is a reporting tool that utilises data from CUFS to provide users with additional reports and options. This introductory course is designed for new reporters - covering everything from running a report successfully as well as a number of useful tips and shortcuts.

Note: This course is mandatory in order to attend either of the following two courses below.

What this introductory course does not do is go through in detail the outputs of each individual report. Report outputs are explained in further detail in the courses above.

Cannot make any dates? See the on-demand online version of the course. Completion of this course will count as Cognos attendance for the purpose of acceptance onto the above courses. You should ask your Key Contact to request Cognos access for you, prior to working through the on-demand material.

11:00
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 11:00 - 11:30 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

11:30
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 11:30 - 12:00 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

14:00

When waste producers need to dispose their end product, they need to complete the pre-acceptance form, identifying as much as waste possible for SAFE transit & disposal. This session will look at how to complete the form correctly.

Tuesday 12 September 2023

09:30
Virtual - Budgeting 1: Introduction to budgeting Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Via MS Teams

This session introduces the theory and practice of budgeting, looking at why and how budgets can be set. Group exercises are used to prompt discussion around the types of costs that should be included in a budget and decision making when setting budgets.

The session will give an overview of the budgeting process in the university and then focus in more detail on practical tools for day-to-day budgeting.

Note: This session does not cover the detailed budgeting and rules relating to individual research grants.

10:30

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15:00
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 15:00 - 15:30 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

Wednesday 13 September 2023

09:30
Virtual - GL 1: Getting Started in the General Ledger module (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Via MS Teams

This course enables users to learn the basics of how the General Ledger module works, how to run online account enquiries and how to process journals.

It is run as two webinars with some pre-course reading

Webinar 1: For everyone

Webinar 2: Optional, if you are not going to be using journals it is not compulsory but may be of interest

If none of the dates are suitable then there are two on-demand packages which can be completed instead.

Chart of Accounts and Account Enquiry https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/fin/event/4716069

Journals https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/fin/event/4716067

Virtual - How to Excel - Part 1 & 2 (For Finance Staff) (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 11:30 Via MS Teams

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.

Thursday 14 September 2023

09:30
Virtual - GL 1: Getting Started in the General Ledger module (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 11:00 Via MS Teams

This course enables users to learn the basics of how the General Ledger module works, how to run online account enquiries and how to process journals.

It is run as two webinars with some pre-course reading

Webinar 1: For everyone

Webinar 2: Optional, if you are not going to be using journals it is not compulsory but may be of interest

If none of the dates are suitable then there are two on-demand packages which can be completed instead.

Chart of Accounts and Account Enquiry https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/fin/event/4716069

Journals https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/fin/event/4716067

10:30

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Friday 15 September 2023

09:30
Cognos 1:1 Workshop (via Teams) new Finished 09:30 - 09:55 Via MS Teams

These sessions are designed for you to have time one on one with a member of the training team to look at issues you may be having with using Cognos. These sessions are designed to discuss issues such as setting up report views, scheduling, general navigation or which parameters to use in flexible reports. They are not designed to discuss issues with the output contained in the reports.

10:00
Cognos 1:1 Workshop (via Teams) new Finished 10:00 - 10:25 Via MS Teams

These sessions are designed for you to have time one on one with a member of the training team to look at issues you may be having with using Cognos. These sessions are designed to discuss issues such as setting up report views, scheduling, general navigation or which parameters to use in flexible reports. They are not designed to discuss issues with the output contained in the reports.

10:30
Cognos 1:1 Workshop (via Teams) new Finished 10:30 - 10:55 Via MS Teams

These sessions are designed for you to have time one on one with a member of the training team to look at issues you may be having with using Cognos. These sessions are designed to discuss issues such as setting up report views, scheduling, general navigation or which parameters to use in flexible reports. They are not designed to discuss issues with the output contained in the reports.

11:00
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 11:00 - 11:30 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

Cognos 1:1 Workshop (via Teams) new Finished 11:00 - 11:25 Via MS Teams

These sessions are designed for you to have time one on one with a member of the training team to look at issues you may be having with using Cognos. These sessions are designed to discuss issues such as setting up report views, scheduling, general navigation or which parameters to use in flexible reports. They are not designed to discuss issues with the output contained in the reports.

11:30
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 11:30 - 12:00 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.

Tuesday 19 September 2023

15:00
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams) new Finished 15:00 - 15:30 Via MS Teams

This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges.