The Office of the Comptroller will be holding a year-end seminar via Zoom conferencing on the following dates: Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 2:00 to 3:30 Wednesday, March 30, 2022 from 2:00 to 3:30 It is highly desirable that you attend this seminar if you are involved with year-end processes in your area. Issues such […]
As part of the Service Excellence Program’s (SEP) ongoing efforts to simplify purchasing and payments at York, new changes to the Signing Authority Register (SAR) have been made. These changes will enable easier and faster purchasing by reducing the amount of effort and time required to secure approvals for the procurement of goods and services. […]
Effective Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, employees must submit expense claims via SAP Concur (York University’s digital expense reimbursement claim software). Why the change? SAP Concur offers a number of benefits over paper-based forms. The figure below outlines the case for change. Figure 1 | Case for change Concur is faster. Concur claims are about five […]
As part of the Service Excellence Program (SEP), the Finance Department and University Services Centre (USC) have made improvements in Concur to enable simpler and faster claim preparation. Key improvements include: Renamed and reordered system fields to reduce confusion for claimants. A new quick tip page available on the Finance website and the Concur landing […]
The Service Excellence Program (SEP) is helping York achieve its vision for service excellence across the University, by implementing operational and service delivery improvement initiatives across all non-academic services. A simplified expense claim workflow will benefit the York community The Finance Department, supported by the SEP, recently conducted a review of current practices for processing […]
If you are a Researcher or an Administrator of a CIHR, SSHRC, Canada Research Chair (CRC) or NSERC Grant, this March 31, 2021 year end memorandum (PDF) contains important information pertaining to: Grant Installments for the 2021/2022 year New research awards Narrative/progress reports Institutional advances Key Contact for post award administration Key Dates to Remember […]
The Service Excellence Program is helping York implement a vision of service excellence across the University, by identifying, facilitating, and implementing operational improvements and service delivery improvement initiatives across all non-academic services. This is a recent successful initiative. New Approach Significantly Reduces Expense Claims Processing Time The Finance Department supported by the Service Excellence Program […]
As part of the Service Transformation initiative, the Finance department is making changes to the review and approval process for expense reimbursements. Beginning September 1, 2020 expense claims less than $1,000 will no longer go through a full pre-payment review by central Finance. Using the new risk-based approach, a limited number of expense claims less […]
Finance regularly reviews the University’s expense eligibility policies based on feedback from faculty and staff. Based on this feedback, Finance is announcing changes to the expense eligibility procedure as it relates to highway tolls, advanced seat selection, preferred seating fees, and meal expenses incurred within the GTA. Finance has also implemented several changes to documentation […]
Background As previously communicated to the community, on October 1, 2016, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [NSERC], the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC] and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research [CIHR] announced changes to its Financial Administration Guide, disallowing the reimbursement of home internet charges against NSERC, […]