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Here are just some of the accomplishments achieved by Division of Finance and Administration teams in 2002. Oracle Guided Learning Stephanie Zuniga from the Center for Business Services and Solutions, alongside Melissa Tessier and Koffi Apedoh from Financial Systems Support, has made...

DFA's financial team has been focused on fiscal close and working diligently to support the university. This is by far the busiest time of year, but the team members still have dedicated extra hours to the Oracle Data Integrity Project. This week, the team completed...

On July 12, the Division of Finance and Administration held its second Oracle Reboot Camp. Over 70 staff members from across the university community attended. The topics covered included accounts payable validations, information on common invoice holds, Smartview training, and...

Over the past two weeks, our team has continued to make progress on the Oracle Data Integrity Project. The alignment plans developed by our accounting team have proven to be very complex, resulting in a lot of extra effort on our team to rectify the data issues, many of which were driven by the...

To: Oracle users Campus colleagues, The Oracle Data Integrity Project (ODIP) is investigating and addressing variances in UC Merced’s financial management system. When ODIP began its work in November 2021, about 600 projects were identified as out of alignment. As of June 21, 50% of...

We continue to make progress on the Oracle Data Integrity Project. Currently, our accounting team has aligned 65% of contracts and grants and 63% of internal accounts. The next steps for our accounting team will be to continue to increase the changes taken into production and to focus on ensuring...

Campus Colleagues, As we progress toward the 2022-23 fiscal year, everyone at UC Merced deserves a view of our financial picture that is the clearest and sharpest possible. In that light, the Financial Transparency Town Hall originally scheduled for this morning is moving to a later date so it...

Campus colleagues, Thank you all for engaging with the Division of Finance and Administration to provide meaningful feedback on our Oracle-based financial system. These productive discussions have made room for DFA to prioritize and propose a significant change to the financial management of...

The Oracle Data Integrity Project has developed alignment plans for 50% of our contracts and grants and 58% of our internal funds; we are still working on initiating the alignments for gifts. We currently have alignment plans for 43% of all accounts. We have been able to move many of these...