PeopleSoft Finance Security Changes (October 2007)
New travel rates & forms (August 2007)
New ConnectND Finance Access Forms (October 2006)
New web page for NDSU PeopleSoft Information (November 2004)
New Chart of Accounts for PeopleSoft (September 2004)
January 1, 2005 new ConnectND"go-live" date (August 2004)
ConnectND delay at NDSU (June 2004)
ConnectND Account Numbers (December 2003)
Record Retention Change (March 2003)
Meals for Staff & Guests Policy & Other AP guidelines Updated (January 2003)
GASB 35 Statements Audited (January 2003)
IDB Transactions (October 2002)
Donations (April 2002)
New Equipment Procedures (June 2001)
Updates to Financial Processing Guidelines (June 2001)
New Staff (May 2001)
New In-state Mileage Rules (May 2001)
Financial Processing Guidelines for NDSU departments (January 2001)
Accounting Office form changes (January 2001)
New Accounting List-Serve (November 2000)
New Monthly Accounting Report Procedures (September 2000)
New Travel Expense Reimbursement Policy approved (August 2000)
New Information Technology Accounting codes (TCCs) (June 2000)
Fiscal 2000 cutoff dates are established (May 2000)
Invitation to comment on proposed travel policy (May 2000)
PageCenter gains momentum (February 2000)
New out of state meal allowance rates available (January 2000)
Administrative Systems rollover to Y2K (January 2000)
Web Travel Expense Voucher (December 1999)
Frequently Asked Questions (October 1999)
Printing Accounting System Reports to Web (September 1999)
Accounting web site redesign (August 1999)
Internal Auditor Reassignment (August 1999)
Fiscal Year-end Procedures and Deadlines Announced (June 1999)
Carolyn Smith (May 1999)
New TCC Booklet (April 1999)
Future Direction and Plans (April 1999)
Performance Audit of Contracts for Services (April 1999)
New Accounting Office Manager (March 1999)
New Business Office Manager (March 1999)
Interactive Request Forms (March 1999)
Financial Systems Training is Coming! (January 1999)
New Management in the Office of Restricted Fund Accounting (June 1998)
Change in Check Distribution Process (June 1998)
LaMae's Retirement (May 1998)
Accounts Payable Changes for Academic Affairs (March 1998)
Accounting Office Home Page (January 1998)
New Staff (November 1997)
Reorganization (January 1997)

PeopleSoft Finance Security Changes (October 2007)

The following message is from Barbara Rask, HECN ConnectND Security Administrator:

A new version of Data Privacy Training will be available on Monday, October 8th, to replace the FERPA Training and Employee Data Privacy Training. The questions have been combined in one database, to make it easier for everyone who needs to take the training, and for you as Campus Access Control Officers (CACOs), so you will only have one place to verify that a user has taken the training.

The records of those who have previously taken the training have been combined to one database as well. There may be some users who may have to re-take the training, because their identity could not be determined by the information that they entered when they took the training previously. We expect that number of users to be very small.

Beginning Monday (Oct 8, 2007), users who request access to the Finance System will also be required to take the Data Privacy Training. So Campus Access Control Officers for the Finance System will need to verify any new users for the Finance System have taken the training, prior to sending a request to the Security group, just as the Campus Access Control Officers for HRMS and Campus Solutions have been doing.

I will be sending out information to all Campus Access Control Officers next week providing instructions for verifying the training.

When the Data Privacy Training database is available to us next week, we will be checking all 3 systems (Campus Solutions, HRMS, and Finance) to determine who has not taken the training previously. We will notify the users of the need to take the training. We will also send a list of those affected on your campus to the Primary Access Control Officer for each system, based on the email address in the user's record. The users will have until November 1st to take the training. We will check again just prior to November 1st and send a reminder for those who have not completed the training. On November 2nd we will lock their accounts. We will ask the users to contact the NDUS Help Desk to create a Remedy Ticket to notify us that they have completed the training, so we can unlock their account. During the first week of January we will notify any who have not completed the training that their account will be removed if the training is not completed prior to January 14th. During the week of January 14th we will remove access from any users who have not completed the training. For any user whose access is removed, a new request form will be required to re-establish access.

The links for the other training databases will be inactivated on Monday. We will post revised request forms early Monday mornng. Please be sure to use the revised forms for any access requests.

Here are the links that will be used beginning Monday:

For users to take the Data Privacy training: https://apps.ndus.edu/dptraining/

For CACOs to verify that a user has taken the Data Privacy training: https://apps.ndus.edu/dptraining/caco_index.php

Please let me know if you have any questions about this change.

Thanks for your assistance with this.

Barbara Rask

HECN ConnectND Security Administrator
North Dakota University System

New Travel rates & forms (August 2007)

Employee in-state mileage reimbursement rate increase from 37.5 cents/mile to 45 cents/mile changed for travel on or after 8/1/07. In-state lodging limits from $50 to $55, plus applicable taxes.

A new travel form for travel on or after 8/1/07 is available, under Customer Service & Forms. Click here for new travel form.

Policy 515 has been updated for these changes.

New ConnectND Finance Access Forms (October 2006)

The ConnectND security team has developed new Finance Access forms for use to request access to the PeopleSoft Finance module. Click here for links to the new forms..

New web page for NDSU PeopleSoft Finance Information (November 2004)

A new page has been added to the NDSU Accounting Office home page to show information related to the PeopleSoft Finance implementation. The "go-live' date is still targeted for January 5, 2004. Click here to access this updated PeopleSoft information.

New Chart of Accounts for PeopleSoft (September 2004)

The change from the legacy/CICS system to PeopleSoft requires a new numbering system for fund, department, TCCs, and Building numbers.

Fund #s: A spreadsheet has been posted to the Accounting Office website that shows the mapping of the old fund numbers to the new PeopleSoft fund/project numbers. Click here to download the fund mapping spreadsheet for all NDSU funds. The funds in this spreadsheet are sorted in order of the legacy/CICS department number.

Department #s: A spreadsheet is also available which shows the new department numbers for all NDSU departments. Click here to download the department spreadsheet.

Account #s: The term Account in the PeopleSoft equates to the term TCC in our legacy/CICS system. Click here to view a spreadsheet with the new Account numbers that will be used in the new system.

Account # Definitions: Click here to view the new web site for using Account #s at NDSU. This also shows the mapping of old TCC #s to new Account #s.

Location Codes: Click here to view NDSU listing of Location Codes that will be used in PeopleSoft. Location Codes in PeopleSoft replaces what NDSU uses for Building #, Area, Complex #, in the legacy/CICS system.

January 1, 2005 New ConnectND "go-live" date (August 2004)

After reviewing the requirements on the PeopleSoft Grants/Contracts module, January 1, 2005 is the new target date for implementing PeopleSoft at NDSU, UND, and Minot State University.

ConnectND delay at NDSU (June 2004)

NDSU will not "go-live" in using PeopleSoft this summer. A decision will be made by July 31 as to the new "go-live" date. Until the new "go-live" date, which will probably be either January or July 2005, NDSU will continue to operate on the legacy/HECN systems and business processes will remain the same. One exception is that NDSU will implement the payroll lag, with the salary advance on July 15, and the semi-monthly payroll in July 2005.

ConnectND Account and Department Numbers (December 2003)

What NDSU refers to as a 'TCC' in its current accounting system, will be referred to as an 'Account' in the upcoming Peoplesoft system. The code will change from a 3 digit field to a 6 digit field in Peoplesoft. Click here to view an Excel spreadsheet with the new Account numbers that will be used in the new system.

The 4-digit department number in NDSU's current system will be used in a similar fashion in the Peoplesoft system. The new system also uses a 4-digit department; however, because of the new system requirements, all NDSU department numbers will change. Click here to view an Excel spreadsheet showing NDSU's department tree structure being setup in the Peoplesoft Finance Module.

Fund numbers will change from the current 4-digit number to a 5-digit number and will still be called fund numbers. Project numbers in our current system will be referred to as program numbers in the Peoplesoft system.

Record Retention Change (March 2003)

Record retention guidelines have been modified to indicate a change from four to seven years as the general rule for retaining original source document records that support transactions on the general ledger. Departments that have been strictly following the four year retention period will need to begin retaining its source documents over the next three years to reach the new seven year period.

This seven year retention period does not apply to forms and documents that are photocopies of original source documents already stored in a central office (such as: travel voucher documents). In this case, the central office is responsible for the retention.

Written record retention guidelines are included in Section M of NDSU's Financial Processing Guidelines. The link to the index for these guidelines is as follows:

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/accounting/guidelines/guide_process.shtml
The change to Section M shows up in part 3 (on page M-2).

Meals for Staff & Guests Policy & Other AP Guidelines Updated (January 2003)

NDSU Policy 170 (Payment of Meals for Staff & Guests) was recently approved and is now posted on the NDSU Policy Manual web site. The intent of the changes were to help clarify some of the rules and give a resolution procedure in the case of disputes.

In addition, the Accounts Payable section (section I) of NDSU's Financial Processing Guidelines for NDSU Departments has been updated to include guidelines on Donations (part j), Promotional Expenses (part k), Work Environment Expenses (part l), and Disputes (part m).

GASB 35 Statements Audited (January 2003)

NDSU financial statements, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, were prepared under the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 35. This new financial reporting standard represented a major overhaul in financial reporting standards for all of higher education. One of the major changes was the conversion to reporting fixed asset depreciation. In addition, a new statement of cash flows was added to the required statements.

In January 2003, the first audit report of the North Dakota University System was completed under the new reporting standards. NDSU's financial statements are included in that report. NDSU's individual GASB 35 financial statements are also included in the Accounting Office web site (view by clicking on the Accounting Office Info icon on the home page).

IDB Transactions (October 2002)

In October 2002, the following message was sent out of over the NDSU Accounting User list-serve:

In the future, departments using interdepartmental billing forms to process transactions (selling goods and/or services to other university departments) need to refrain from using any revenue TCC other than 199 to code revenue in a local fund. Interdepartmental billing transactions should be recorded using one of the following methods:

1) Shift expenses from one fund to another. For example: If one fund buys supplies from another fund, both funds should use the applicable expense TCC. So as a result overall university expenses do not change: expenses in one fund increase and but this increase is offset by a decrease in expenses in the other fund.

2) Record revenue in the selling fund. If it is important for the fund selling the goods and/or services to report the transaction with a revenue TCC (i.e., revenue TCC's range from 100 to 199), the department or fund must use TCC 199 (interdepartmental sales), rather than some other revenue code such as TCC 131 (sales).

By using TCC 199 as a revenue code on inter-departmental billing forms, the Accounting Office can identify interdepartmental sales on the general ledger and make elimination entries for purposes of preparing the annual financial statements.

Funds designated as NDSU internal service funds (fund #'s 2650 - 2699) can ignor this email as those revenues are already easily identified and eliminated for purposes of university financial statement preparation. If you have questions on this information, please call either Melanie (#1-7297), Milan (#1-6297) or Gary (#1-8210).

Donations (April 2002)

Section I (part 10j) of the Financial Processing Guidelines was updated to show the legal restriction regarding donations by NDSU to outside organizations. NDSU, or any state agency or institution, may not make a donation to an outside organization. Payments made to an individual or association should be for the fair value of goods received or services rendered.

New Staff (May 2001)

The Accounting Office welcomes a new staff member. Her name is Joy Nesemeier and she begins work May 1st. Joy replaces Angie Limesand who took a position the NDSU Residence Life department..

New In-state Mileage Rules (May 2001)

Governor Hoeven recently signed House Bill (HB)1197, which amends the mileage reimbursement rules for all state employees. This bill was signed on April 18, 2001 and included an emergency provision, so it becomes effective upon the Governor's signature.

For employee travel on or after April 18, 2001, employees must be reimbursed for each mile "actually and necessarily traveled in the performance of official duty" at a rate of 31 cents per mile. Employee travel before April 18th, must still be reimbursed at a rate of 25 cents per mile.

Changes will be forthcoming to NDSU policy; however, departments must use the new rates indicated above. If vouchers have been already submitted, amended vouchers must be prepared.

There are now two travel expense vouchers available on the Accounting Office web site. One voucher has the old rates, another voucher has the new rates. Please use the appropriate voucher. If you are preparing a voucher for the month of April that includes miles before and after April 18th, you could either manually correct the totals on the bottom of the form or use the appropriate separate vouchers for the two different rates.

For full text of annoucement to departments click here.

Financial Processing Guidelines for NDSU Departments (January 2001)

Guidelines to assist department secretaries, admin assistants, business managers, and any other NDSU financial system user, are now available. A binder with a hard copy and tabs is available in the Accounting Office. Please stop in and pick one up.

A version is also available on the web. Click here to see a directory. Future updates would be available on the web. Where a section can be reprinted and inserted in your binder.

A new list-serve has been established for department secretaries, administrative assistants, account technicians, and others that need to be informed of changes in accounting procedures. The list has been already established based on CICS users who have access to on-line screen AP82.

A welcome message was sent out on the list serve on November 29th. So if you received the welcome message your name is on the list serve. If you did not receive the message, and would like to be on the list serve, please contact Lori Olson at #1-7361 or email at lolson@gwmail.nodak.edu.

New Monthly Accounting Report Procedures (September 2000)

Beginning with reports for the month of July 2000, monthly accounting reports are distributed to departments only by the PageCenter (web) software. Paper (green-bar) reports are no longer generated and distributed to departments. A department's reports are available for viewing in the department's PageCenter mailbox on the WWW. Reports affected include the fund summary report, fund transaction, and project detail report.

Timing for the month-end accounting cutoff is also changing. Beginning this September, month-end accounting reports will be run on the evening of the third working day after the end of the month. Therefore, a department should be able to go to their PageCenter mailbox and view their monthly accounting reports on the web, any time after the third working day after month-end. For example, September reports will be run on the evening of October 4, 2000, and can be viewed by departments the morning of October 5, 2000.

This new timing for the month-end cutoff also involved advancing the dates, by three days, during which departments can redistribute electronic billing transactions. Under the new procedure, JB40 can be used during the last three working days of a month to redistribute electronic billing transactions between funds. In addition, phone charges will also be available for redistribution under this new procedure.

New Travel Expense Reimbursement Policy Approved (August 2000)

The University travel policy has recently been revised and can now be found in Section 515 of the NDSU Policy Manual. Perhaps the most significant change is in the out-of-state travel authorization requirements.

The current four-part travel authorization form is no longer required, because most out-of-state travel no longer needs to be approved by the Office of the President. The out-of-state travel authorization requirements are now as follows:

Employees must have each out-of-state trip pre-approved by their immediate supervisor. In addition, employees in a department, college, or division must have each out-of-state trip pre-approved by their Dean or Director. Deans and Directors who report directly to a Vice President must have their out-of-state trips pre-approved by their Vice President. Vice Presidents and others reporting directly to the President, must have each out-of-state trip pre-approved by the President.

An interactive web form is now available for purposes of handling out-of-state travel authorizations via email. If the employee fills out the web form and inserts their supervisor's email address, the entry will go to the supervisor as an email. Supervisors can respond to the employee via email. The web address for this new form: http://www.ndsu.edu/accounting/services/travel-auth.html.

New Information Technology Accounting codes (TCCs) (June 2000)

With the start of the new fiscal year, July 1, 2000, departments must begin using the new TCCs that were established to track expenditures related to information technology (IT). These new IT budget and tracking requirements are a part of the IT planning requirements passed by the 1999 Legislative Assembly. Click here to view definitions of these new TCCS (Look for November 1999 & January 2000 updates). For the state's definition of "Information Technology" click here.

Fiscal 2000 cutoff dates are established (May 2000)

Click here to view the June 30, 2000 fiscal year-end cut-off information.

Invitation to comment on proposed travel policy (May 2000)

The NDSU Accounting Office has recently drafted a new university travel reimbursement policy. We would appreciate your comments regarding the new policy. We are hopeful you will see some positive changes. Please send your comments to Gary Wawers, Controller, at gwawers@gwmail.nodak.edu. To view the draft employee travel policy as a Word document, click here. To view the draft of the non-employee travel policy as a Word document, click here.

PageCenter gains momentum (February 2000)

February will be a busy month as the implementation of PageCenter software begins to take place. For more information on this project, a temporary web site has been setup under the Accounting Office web site. Click here to find out more information.

New out of state meal allowance rates available (January 2000)

New meal allowance rates are available for out of state travel taking place after 1/1/2000. The old rates are still applicable for out of state travel taking place before 1/1/2000. Click here for the link to the old and new rates.

Administrative Systems rollover to Y2K (January 2000)

Administrative CICS systems were restarted early January 1, 2000 and tested for the Y2K bug. No problems were encountered in this process. The hard work put in by the HECN staff has paid off.

Web Travel Expense Voucher (December 99)

A new web travel expense voucher form has been added and can be used on a trail basis. The form can be found under the listing of Forms for NDSU Departments, under Customer Service and Forms.

Frequently Asked Questions (October 99)

This is a new feature added to the Accounting Office web site. Click on the Guidelines and Policies icon and then click on Frequently Asked Questions. We plan to continue to add FAQs to keep it current.

Printing Accounting System Reports to Web (September 99)

HECN has made the decision to purchase a software program from Levi, Ray, & Shoop (LRS) that will enable NDSU financial offices to print reports to the web for access by departments. With this process change, departments will no longer have to wait to receive a paper version of their monthly accounting reports from the NDSU Accounting Office. Under the new system, for the department to view their their financial reports, users will access the web, enter their password, and view their reports on the screen. The web information can even be cut and pasted into another application such as an excel spreadsheet.

There should be a significant reduction in paper used at NDSU as a result of this change, since the distibution of the green bar style reports will no longer be necessary.

HECN and NDSU is looking at installing the software, testing, training and implementing before November 1999.

Accounting web site redesign (August 99)

Thanks to David Fliger, Eric Parsons, Nancy Lilleberg and the rest of the web development team for the redesign of the Accounting Office web site.

Internal Auditor Reassignment (August 99)

Effective August 1, 1999, Jean Ostrom-Blonigen has been reassigned to report directly to President Chapman in the position of NDSU's Internal Auditor and Financial Systems Officer. Jean's office has been relocated to Old Main, Room 104. Jean previously held a number of positions in the Business and Finance Division.

"The reason for this change is that the internal auditor position needs to be independent when reviewing the different divisions of the university and its operations," according to NDSU President Joseph Chapman.

Fiscal Year-end Procedures and Deadlines (June 99)

The Accounting Office has issued new guidelines for fiscal year-end procedures and deadlines. To view the detailed guidelines click here.

Carolyn Smith (May 99)

Carolyn Smith, 1999 NDSU Accounting graduate, has been an intern in the Accounting Office the past two years. Carolyn is graduating this May and has taken a position with Deloitte & Touche, LLP, one of the Big 5 CPA firms. It has been a pleasure have Carolyn with us and we wish her the best of luck in the future.

New TCC Booklet (April 99)

A new TCC booklet is available for departments who would rather use a hardcopy rather than the web. For more information on this booklet click here.

Future Direction and Plans (April 99)

This is a new web page added in an effort to keep interested parties up-to-date on what are the plans for future enhancements to our financial systems. To view this page please click here.

Performance Audit of Contract Services (April 99)

The North Dakota State Auditors Office was requested by the Legislative Council to conduct a state-wide performance audit of contracts for services. As a preliminary step in this audit, the auditors are requesting from NDSU copies of all contracts or agreements that meet certain dollar thresholds and were in effect during January 1, 1997 to March 1, 1999. To comply with this request the Accounting Office issued a letter to departments that may have contracts that meet the criteria. The due date for this audit request is April 30, 1999.

New Accounting Office Manager (March 99)

Milan Knutson began managing of the NDSU Accounting Office, effective March 8, 1999. Milan's new functional title is Accounting Office Manager. The Accounting Office is responsible for accounts payable, general ledger management, financial reporting, tax reporting and compliance, cash and investment management, long-term debt management. Milan is entering the NDSU Quarter-Century Club this spring.

Milan has a B.S. in Accounting from Moorhead State University. Milan is a certified public accountant.

New Business Office Manager (March 99)

Julie Illich is NDSU's new Business Office Manager. Julie started in this position on March 8, 1999. Julie comes to NDSU with an excellent background in university business office operations. Julie's previous positions include: Business Manager at Northwest Technical College, Controller at Jamestown College, and Business Manager at North Dakota State College of Science.

Julie has a B.S. in Accounting from NDSU and is a certified public accountant.

Interactive Request Forms (March 99)

A new feature has been added to the Accounting Office web site. Interactive request forms are available for NDSU departments to request services such as setting up new fund or project numbers, making changes to existing fund or project numbers, transferring money between local funds, making error corrections to transactions, requesting foreign bank drafts. Once the forms are completed by NDSU departments to request a certain service, an email will be received in the NDSU Accounting Office and the request will be processed. In addition, a confirming email will be sent back to the requestor.

On the Accounting Office Home Page these forms are under Customer Services and Information.

Financial Systems Training is Coming! (January 99)

Jean Ostrom-Blonigen will be transferring from the Business Office Manager position to Financial Systems Officer & Internal Auditor, effective March 8, 1999. In this new role Jean is responsible for developing a financial systems training program and planning future financial systems enhancements. Training will be provided to campus personnel on general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll systems. During the past few years the processing of various types of transactions has been decentralized from the central offices to the departments. This new training program is intended to support departments that use NDSU's financial systems.

Jean has a B.S. in Accounting from Moorhead State University and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from NDSU. Jean is a certified public accountant.

New Management in the Office of Restricted Fund Accounting (June 98)

Effective June 1, 1998, Karen Hendrickson takes the leadership position in the Office of Restricted Fund Accounting. Also effective June 1, 1998, Bruce Bollinger, former Director of Restricted Fund Accounting, takes the position of Director, Agriculture/Extension Budget Office.

Change in Check Distribution Process (June 98)

Effective July 1, 1998, the Accounting Office is changing the process for distributing certain accounts payable checks. These payments include checks that are picked up in the Accounting Office for employee travel expense reimbursements, flex-comp reimbursements, and students. The new process will have the Accounting Office distribute these checks to departments through campus mail.

The current process is for the Accounting Office to sort these checks by department and then telephone the department to pick-up the checks in Accounting. The checks are held in Accounting until picked up by someone in the department. Departmental personnel walk from their campus work-site and pick-up their department's accounts payable checks.

The Accounting Office encourages employees and students to sign-up for receiving their payments electronically via ACH (Automated Clearing House). Payments made via ACH are reflected in the customer's bank account at the start of business on the second day after the payment is processed in Accounting or Payroll Offices. For example, if a customer is setup for ACH and his/her travel voucher or flex-comp reimbursement is entered to the administrative computer system on a Monday, the payment will be in the customer's bank account at the start of business on Wednesday.

If there are certain payments your department wants to be exempt from this general change and continue to be picked up in the Accounting Office, please write 'Hold Check for Pickup' in the upper right hand corner of the Request for Payment form.

If you have any questions on this proposed change please call me at #18210 or at email address: gwawers@gwmail.nodak.edu.

LaMae's Retirement (May 98)

After 27 years at NDSU, LaMae Iwen, Accounts Payable Manager, retired effective May 1, 1998. LaMae was a dedicated employee of NDSU and she will be missed. LaMae's position is currently held open as vacant until an evaluation can be made as to what are the needs of the office.

Accounts Payable Changes for Academic Affairs (March 98)

Changes in the accounts payable process will be put in place this spring for Academic Affairs. The key element of the changes is that departments will be allowed to enter their vendor payments on-line directly to the accounting system. These changes are intended to save NDSU departments time, money, and provide better service to vendors. In order to facilitate these changes, the NDSU Accounting Office has developed a training program for on-line departmental input of vendor invoices. This training program is directed toward the colleges and departments under the Vice President for Academic Affairs. (Departments under Business/Finance and Student Affairs have already implemented the change. Implementation is in progress for the departments under the VP for Agriculture.) For more information on this topic see Guidelines for Departmental Input of Vendor Invoices.

Accounting Office Home Page (January 98)

Our Accounting Office Home Page is new. Thanks to Vishal Goyal for helping to create this page and Lori Olson will be keeping the information up-to-date. We have created this web site primarily to provide information about the office and accounting procedures to NDSU departments.

New Staff (November 97)

The Accounting Office welcomes a new staff member. Her name is Angela Limesand and she begins work November 24th. Angela replaces Michelle Skoblik who took a position off campus.

Reorganization (January 97)

There has been a reorganization of the accounting offices, which involved some significant shifting of responsibilities. Due to some increases in workload and new functions within Business and Finance, it has become necessary to reorganize the Accounting Offices and shift duties among existing management. In making the following changes, we also tried to accommodate a certain amount of cross training, as our management ranks are very thin.

Effective January 1997, Gary Wawers' title changed from Chief Accountant to Controller. In addition to his existing responsibilities, he will be responsible for the Business Office. Previously, the general accounting management functions were divided among three individuals.

Under the reorganization, Milan Knutson will now be responsible for all general accounting functions and will have the title of Senior Accountant. He has relocated to the lower level of Old Main, Room 11. (This news is superseded by New Accounting Manager news item dated March 1999)

Jean Ostrom-Blonigen will be responsible for Internal Audit, Business Office, and for assisting staff with technology changes, i.e., Smart Card. (This news is superseded by Financial Systems Training is Coming! news item dated January 1999)

Bruce Bollinger's current responsibilities for a portion of the general accounting functions will be transferred to Milan. In its place, Bruce will be responsible for cost accounting, which initially is required for internal service funds and grants and contracts. In the near future we will also look into the feasibility of program costing. (This news is superseded by New Management in the Office of Restricted Fund Accounting news item dated June 1998)