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For Covid grants accounted for through SERVS, districts must match each SERVS grant application with UFARS by object and course. Please go to MDE/Data Center/Data Reports and Analytics/SERVS Financial Public Reports/UFARS/SERVS Comparison/ UFARS/SERVS Budget Comparison to see the details. You can also use this link Data Reports and Analytics (mn.gov)If you would like our help reconciling, send us the Approved Budget from SERVS. 

After Region 1 submits your UFARS data to the State, it’s time to review and correct UFARS reporting errors. To see if you have UFARS compliance errors, go to the MDE MFR web site https://public.education.mn.gov/MDEAnalytics/DataTopic.jsp?TOPICID=9If you see ‘No Edit Errors Were Found. Congratulations!’ you have completed UFARS compliance.  Otherwise, review the listed errors and post necessary JEs for corrections.  Contact Stacy, Melissa or Wayne if you need ass...

Funds are available to replace compensatory revenue lost because of the pandemic. These funds are not additional revenue to your district. To see an explanation of this revenue:  https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/schfin/aid/PROD059128To see the amounts for each district:  Compensatory Reporting Extension and Federal Source spreadsheet .An entry should be made credit to R01-005-000-317-400-000 (a new account) and debit R01-005-000-317-211-000.

If you are entering fixed assets for FY22, don’t forget to change the FA Fiscal Yr to 2022 by clicking on the drop down arrow in Finance Defaults window. 

There are two extra Periods built into the Accounting Calendar. Once period 202212 is open, the next period number for FY22 is 202213. This period can be used for fiscal yearend journal entries including auditor’s adjustments. The last period for FY22 is 202214. This period is for Region 1 use only. We use this period to do closing entries. Closing entries zero the expense and revenues, and move the dollars to the fund balances. Note that for periods 2022...

Below is a chart showing the related Course codes by fiscal year to be used for various Covid Federal grants. This chart is revised from MDE’s website with the finance and course numbers in each column. Before yearend, you can work on making sure your accounts are using the correct course numbers. This will be discussed at our yearend meeting. Note that finance dimensions 166,167,169, and 171 may also use a course number of 011 if you are cleaning up older grants. Also, finance 162 may use...

Did you know there is a search feature in Smart Finance? If you are looking for something and don’t know where to find it (like Budget Workpapers), just click on the Quick Access down arrow and type in what you are looking for. A selection will pop up and you can click on what you want.