Finance Training course timetable

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

As a recent new starter to the Finance Division, we would like to invite you to attend a welcome session in Greenwich House with David Hughes. These sessions are an opportunity for you to meet with other members of staff who have recently joined Finance, as well as hearing from David and senior members of the team.

Please book onto a session below that suits your office working pattern best. We encourage you to attend in your first three months in the Finance Division but if you are unable to attend either of these dates, more dates will follow later in the year.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

This session is for staff who will be acting as Concur key contacts and/or will be part of the Finance Team who will be second approving expense claims. The session will include an end to end demo of the process of submitting and approving a claim, including:

• Profile settings
• Creating and submitting a claim
• First approving
• Acting as a second approver
• Changing approval flows
• Credit cards
• Using the mobile app

This session will not be suitable for claimants or first approvers, there are training materials available on the Expenses Hub for these roles. Please see the Expenses Hub website

If there are no dates scheduled, please register interest and we will be in touch to arrange a mutually convenient time for a session.

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An overview of how to act as an approver in the expenses claim process using SAP Concur software. This includes:

• How a first approver is nominated
• Responsibilities as first approver
• Confirming an approval
• Reasons for rejection

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

This course provides users the opportunity to run General Ledger reports and how to interpret them when managing departmental funds.

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.

This course provides users the opportunity to run General Ledger reports and how to interpret them when managing departmental funds.