University Accounting & Financial Reporting offers a variety of courses every month. The courses below are offered through June 2024.
Note: Please login to Ability LMS system before using the designated registration pages below.
Accounting: Introduction to Banner and Finance II
In this instructor-led Zoom course, you will expand your Banner and finance knowledge. We will demonstrate how to navigate Banner and use various pages to search for departmental financial information. We will explain in detail the structure of the C-FOAPAL string and the importance of each segment for your department and University of Illinois System financial reporting. You will also be introduced to the principles of fund accounting, the Operating Ledger, and the General Ledger.
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- February 28
- April 24
- June 6
Property Accounting: FABweb Additions & Updates
FABweb is a critical tool in managing a unit's equipment inventory records in Banner. In this instructor-led Zoom course, you will learn the correct procedures for using FABweb to process new equipment acquisitions and update records for existing equipment. This course explains how FABweb interacts with Banner and demonstrates how to find equipment information in both FABweb and Banner. In addition, this course discusses FABweb security, the parent/child relationship of equipment, and how to request non-cash additions to inventory. We also encourage you to review the FABweb Additions and Updates Participant Guide.
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Property Accounting: FABweb Disposals
Proper disposal of university equipment is an important process in the equipment management lifecycle. In this instructor-led Zoom course, you will gain a crucial understanding of how to accurately analyze and organize disposal requests on behalf of your unit. You will practice evaluating real-life scenarios to develop problem-solving skills.
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Accounting: Journal Voucher Processing I, II & III
This three-part session provides hands-on experience analyzing, creating, and successfully completing journal vouchers. In this instructor-led Zoom course, you will use Banner and other resources to gather this information for different scenarios. Using a journal voucher template, we will organize the information before using the Banner 9 Playground to create journal vouchers to correct the various scenarios. Finally, you will review the journal vouchers to confirm these new transactions accomplished the necessary corrections.
You must complete the Journal Voucher Certificate Track to participate in this series.
You must register for all three dates within a two-week period.
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- March 21, 26, 28
- May 2, 7, 9
Accounting: University Accounting Open Lab
University Accounting & Financial Reporting (UAFR) is a system-wide service center that supports the financial accounting and reporting needs of the University of Illinois System. As outlined within UAFR's home webpage, UAFR's Who to Ask list, and UAFR's Equipment Management webpage, there are a wide variety of accounting and financial reporting topics that UAFR can assist you with.
To better assist you with these accounting and financial reporting needs, UAFR continues to offer Accounting Open Labs on a regular basis via Zoom. During these open labs, you can meet one-on-one with one of UAFR's primary trainers to review your general accounting and financial reporting questions. In addition, if you have even more detailed and specific questions on a particular topic, then the UAFR trainers can connect you with one of UAFR's applicable subject matter experts to talk over your questions in more detail during these open labs.
We encourage you to take advantage of these training opportunities and join us via Zoom for the upcoming dates below.
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- February 15
- March 5
- April 10
- May 22
- June 13
