Finance Training course timetable

An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with the Accounting Services Team to gain an overview of their roles and a greater appreciation of what they do.

This course covers the day to day and month end transactions that need to be completed using a variety of tools in CUFS.

This course covers the various month-end processes that need to be completed within the iProcurement module.

This course covers the various month-end processes that need to be completed within the iProcurement module.

An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with the Accounting Services Team to gain an overview of the function of the Helpdesk and the Cash Management function.

As part of a wider programme of work within UIS to update the University IT infrastructure, a project is underway to move all of UAS from Microsoft Outlook to Microsoft Exchange Online. The Finance Division migration will take place on the evening of Monday 21st January. All staff are encouraged to attend to hear about the preparatory work needed to ensure this change over goes as smoothly as possible. This session supports the wider communications that will start on 2nd January to prepare for this change.

The course details are being finalised, for now please book a provisional place here and we will let you know when the details and application packs are available

AAT Level 4, Professional Diploma in accounting.

Students will be placed on the public day release programme with an external provider

Once you have registered here you will need to complete the application form at the back of the briefing pack. This pack is available on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme Dates will be added once they have been confirmed

This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders.

iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.

This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders.

iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.

Across the university and assoicated bodies we have many members of staff who have previously studied AAT or are currently studying. We have set up an alumni group specifically for these AAT qualified/part qualified staff as a way to maintain the connection and to support their continued development

Using spreadsheets

Each day we are faced with managing and using increasingly large and complex spreadsheets. This session will explore some of the tools and techniques which can be used to simplify streamline repeated processes. This will include, but not be limited to, inbuilt formatting, sorting, filtering and simple macros. There will be opportunity to ask questions and participate in group discussion to share ideas.

This session covers how to make a financial plan, prepare it for upload to the finance system and monitor progress against the plan. It is a practical course which will look at the techniques and systems within the University that can be used for budgeting.

It is an ideal follow on from Managing the Budget Part 1 and for those who have a good working knowledge of budgeting principles and want to develop skills in using the University budgeting tools.

An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with GHOST to gain an overview of their roles and a greater appreciation of what they do.

As part of a wider programme of work within UIS to update the University IT infrastructure, a project is underway to move all of UAS from Microsoft Outlook to Microsoft Exchange Online. The Finance Division migration will take place on the evening of Monday 21st January. All staff are encouraged to attend to hear about the preparatory work needed to ensure this change over goes as smoothly as possible. This session supports the wider communications that will start on 2nd January to prepare for this change.

The Finance Division values the professionalism and commitment of its members and therefore encourages all staff to develop their skills and knowledge. This short session will outline for you the Division’s policy on training and development, as well as highlighting resources from across the University that you can utilise.

As part of a wider programme of work within UIS to update the University IT infrastructure, a project is underway to move all of UAS from Microsoft Outlook to Microsoft Exchange Online. The Finance Division migration will take place on the evening of Monday 21st January. All staff are encouraged to attend to hear about the preparatory work needed to ensure this change over goes as smoothly as possible. This session supports the wider communications that will start on 2nd January to prepare for this change.

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.

This course aims to give you a brief introduction to R. During the half day session, we will use a practical based approach to give you the confidence to start using R to improve your work. In particular you will learn how to write your own scripts and use pre-written functions. We will also explore the ways in which you can further your knowledge of R after the course.

This course will concentrate on how to use the Cognos reporting tool to help manage departmental research grants. These reports can be divided into three main categories:

• Summary financial information for Projects
• Detailed expenditure analysis
• Management reports for Grants due to close

In this course we will not access the Grants module in CUFS.