Monthly Archives: June 2017

FTS Unavailable During Information Systems Outage

In preparation for the Information Systems Outage scheduled by ITS for server maintenance, Financial Transaction Services (FTS) will not be available starting at 6 p.m., Wednesday, July 5, 2017.  Access to FTS will return Monday morning, July 10 at 7 a.m.
 
We highly recommend directly notifying your Approving Officials to take action on Requisitions, Vouchers, or Reimbursements in “pending approval” status to avoid having those transaction requests delayed by these additional days of the outage.
Contact Finance Support at financeconnect@sjsu.edu or 4-1558 if you have any questions.
Please forward this message to any staff or faculty you feel should be notified.

Update: AB1887 State Travel Prohibition – Four Additional States

Last Thursday, June 22, 2017, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced four additional states that are now included in the AB1887 Travel Prohibition.  The states are:

  • Alabama
  • Kentucky
  • South Dakota
  • Texas

Please note: There has been no mention of an effective date for the additional restricted states, nor any guidance regarding existing travel taken or authorized since AB1887’s original effective date of January 1, 2017.  We will send updates to this message as soon as possible.

Link to the Dept of Justice/Office of the Attorney General AB1887 website: https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887.
If you have any questions, please contact FinanceConnect at financeconnect@sjsu.edu or 4-1558.

May Accounting Period Close

For employees who track or manage department budgets, please note that the month of May 2017 is now closed in CFS.

This means that the General Ledger (GL) system will not accept any more entries with an May journal date. May transactions can still be entered into the GL system, but the journal date must be 6/1/2017 or later. The current period open is June 2017.