Fiscal Close: Overview

Departments need to be aware of cut-off deadlines to ensure that transactions are recorded in the appropriate fiscal year.

The fiscal closing period is upon us. We want to express our appreciation and gratitude to the many staff who are contributing countless hours to supporting faculty, learning new systems, and managing financial operations throughout this fiscal close process. Thank you all!

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In the current financial system, Oracle Financial Cloud (OFC) the concept of a preliminary, interim and final close periods do not exist.  Fiscal close will generally function the same as the regular month end ledger close, however there have been adjustments made to try and mimic the legacy close functionality - please refer to Ledger Close Dates. It is important to understand the cutoff date for all subledgers is July 11, 2025 and only GL journal entries will be allowed after this date. 

Guidance for Employees in Campus Departments

First, become familiar with important dates:

• Departmental Action and Cutoff Dates

Next, become familiar with instructions for self-supporting activities:

• Self-Supporting Activities Fiscal Closing Special Items Instructions for FY2025 (Pending Completion)

Then, review the following reports in Business Analytics Hub (BAH):

• Commonly Used Reports for Monthly Reconciliation

Support and Resources

• We encourage you to crowdsource answers from colleagues in the Budget & Finance Community of Practice.
• Budget & Finance Weekly Digest subscribers will receive a limited-edition newsletter, The Fiscal Close Bulletin, issued from May to July to provide you with weekly updates and guidance related to Fiscal Close.
  
• Timely updates will be posted to the Fiscal Close Updates Blink page.
• Meet with Internal Controls & Accounting (ICA) for support regarding the fiscal close process.

June Ledger (Period 12) Close

The June ledger close should be treated the same as any other monthly close. No extraordinary effort should be made to include routine transactions in the June ledger, with the following exceptions:

• Self-Supporting Activities should record inventories and accruals as specified in instructions sent to those activities (refer to the Self-Supporting Activities document linked above).

Refer to Ledger Close Dates for Oracle subledger and GL cut-off and close dates

• PPM, Receivables, & Fixed Asset subledger cut-off date is July 11, 2025 - after the subledger cut-off date, no further subledger transactions can be processed for the fiscal year.
• Last day for departments to submit GL journal entries with all department approvals finalized is July 17, 2025.
• Last day for Vice Chancellor offices to submit exception GL journal entries with all departmental approvals finalized is July 24, 2025.
• Normal monthly guidelines should be followed in processing check requests, travel, petty cash, and reimbursements.

Material errors on subledgers are to be corrected by the June PPM cut-off date: July 11, 2025. After this date, material errors should be reported to the department's Vice Chancellor office and Internal Controls & Accounting for evaluation. If correcting entries are required, then they will be performed using a journal entry impacting the General Ledger only.

AP & Concur Accruals

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCRUALS

While most supplier invoices are received electronically at UC San Diego, there is a small percentage of invoices that are received via physical mail. Please ensure that all invoices dated on or before June 30 are submitted to IPPS through Transcepta.

For fiscal close, IPPS will accrue the following:

• Oracle AP invoices totaling $2,500 or more in the system that are currently in “not validated” or “needs revalidation” status (not accounted to GL/PPM).
• Oracle AP invoices totaling $2,500 or more in the system that are validated but pending approval (not accounted to GL/PPM).

Recommended Department Actions before June 30:

• Remind requesters and financial unit approvers to review and approve assigned invoices as soon as possible
• Review personal “Worklist” under “Tools” for any pending AP invoice approvals
• Proactively work with IPPS to resolve any invoice holds by submitting a ServiceNow ticket to Budget and Finance Support. Below are the ticket attributes to use:
  • I want to... Ask a Question or Make a Request
  • About... Invoices & Payables
  • Related to... AP Invoice Holds
  • More Specifically... AP Invoice Hold
  • Subject: AP invoice number and Purchase Order number
  • Description: [provide any additional information]

CONCUR ACCRUALS

In preparation for Fiscal Year-End Closing, please reconcile Procurement Card, Travel & Entertainment Card and CTS card charges in Concur as soon as possible. In the upcoming weeks, through the end of June, the system will send reminders to individual cardholders who have outstanding expenses.

• P-card expenses: reconcile within 30 days
• Travel and Entertainment (Events) expenses: reconcile within 45 days of the business travel end date or event date

For fiscal close, IPPS will accrue the following:

• Expenses assigned to expense reports against the chart string(s) specified with the below conditions:
  • The report has not been approved or the report does not have a status of “Sent for Payment” and totals $2,500 or more, and:
  • For P-cards, the posted date of the expenses are on or before June 30.
  • For Travel and Events, the Business Travel End Date or Event Date is prior to or on June 30.
• Card Charges not assigned to expense reports and total $2,500 or more per transaction.
  • In this case, accruals will post against the cardholder’s Profile Financial Unit/Project, if populated.  If not populated, they will post against the cardholder’s Primary [Payroll] Assignment Financial Unit/default project derived from OFC.
• Review the Concur accrual data showing all unreconciled Concur expenses. 
  • Chart string values to be used for accruals are displayed under Columns BI (“f_entity”) through BQ (“f_future_2”).
  • Departments should also utilize the following reports to help review their Concur activities: (1) Concur Expense Reports (select all pending approval statuses except for "Approved"), and (2) Outstanding Card Charges.
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Card charges represent the following:

•  *UCSD – CTS Air, Hotel Card
•  *UCSD – T&E Card
•  *UCSD – Procurement Card
•  *UCSD – T&E Instant Card
•  *UCSD – Procurement Instant Card

NOTE: card transactions over 365 days old as of June 15th may be charged off to the cardholder’s Primary [Payroll] Assignment Financial Unit/default project derived from OFC.  Please prioritize reconciling these expenses as soon as possible.

Recommended Department Actions for Concur before June 30:

• Assign transactions to expense reports, i.e. move transactions from Available Expenses to applicable or new Expense Reports, fill out the Business Travel Dates or Event Dates and allocate the expenses to the appropriate chart string values.
  • Reminder: you must always fill out the Financial Unit and Approver.  Fill out the Project and Task, OR, the Fund and Function when not charging to a project.
  • Refer to this Services & Support article on How to Allocate Expenses in Concur.
• To add/edit one’s “Profile” chart string, log in to Concur, Profile, Profile Settings and select Request or Expense Information
• To view reports on Outstanding Card Transactions and Expense Reports for your department, visit the Business Analytics Hub and search for “Concur”
• Submit Expense Reports and obtain all appropriate levels of approval by the Ledger Cutoff Dates for Travel, Events and Non-Events expenses.
• Submit Expense Reports and obtain Financial Unit approvals for P-card expenses once a month. To post to the ledger for FYE, make sure they are approved by your Financial Unit approvers before fiscal year end.
• Questions?  Submit a Services & Support case: 
  • Support.ucsd.edu, Budget & Finance, Get Help 
  • Select “Submit a Ticket to Budget & Finance Support” 
  • Under “More Specifically”, select “Concur Navigation”.  This will auto-populate the categories above.

PLEASE NOTE!

Do expense reports need to be submitted for transactions that are accrued?

• • Yes, they still need to be submitted for approval even after they were accrued.  Accruals are only an accounting entry to realize goods and/or services received in the same fiscal year. Transactions would still need to be assigned to expense reports and submitted in the new fiscal year.