PeopleSoft Financials is the University of ÑÇÖÞÓ°Ôº System’s internal platform for managing financial operations. It helps with accounting, budgeting, reporting and fiscal project management across departments and business units.

System Availability

All modules are available 24/7 except during the regular maintenance window (Sat. 6 p.m. to Sun. 12 p.m.). 

  • Production database: Nightly processing runs Monday–Friday starting at 5:00 p.m. (except University holidays) and continues until all processes are complete. 
    • System performance may be slower or show temporary inconsistencies during processing.
  • Reporting database: Refreshed daily at 4:45 a.m. with a copy of production data. 
  • Web applications and reports: Brief outages may occur during nightly processing, with on-screen messages explaining the cause.
  • Cutoff times: Complete all feeds, journal entries, vouchers, and CRRs by 6:00 p.m. for inclusion in daily processing.
    •  Transactions not processed will be included in the next cycle.
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System Information

Enter journal entries and vouchers, track payments, manage budgets, allocate funds and monitor project and program activity. Access financial and operational reports, refreshed daily to reflect the latest production data. Compatible with all major browsers. 

Chartfields and MoCodes

  • Required field 
  • Five alpha characters 
  • Represents a campus or a separate reporting entity related to the Hospitals and Clinics or within the System administration 
  • Used for storing transaction data by campus 
  • Consists of 10 different units for purposes of the General Ledger: 
  • Alpha Designation is used in the following ChartFields: DeptID, Project, and Program 
Alpha Characters Business Unit Alpha Designation 
COLUM Columbia C, D, E 
HELTH UMC Health System 
HOSPT University Hospital 
KCITY Kansas City 
ROLLA Rolla 
STLOU St. Louis 
UBANK University Bank 
UMSYS System Administration 
UWIDE University-Wide Resources 
WORKC Working Capital 

 

  • Required on all transactions 
  • Eight alphanumeric characters:  
    • Alpha designation of the Business Unit is the first character 
    • Numeric digits are the second through eighth characters 
  • Represents the lowest budget level in an organization 
  • Needed for each activity having different program classifications (instruction, research, etc.) 
  • Trees are used to organize DeptIDs into campus organizational structures 

Example

  • The Department Node for Campus Dining is CCAMPDIN and the following are DeptIDs under that department:  
    • C0705030 – DeptID for Plaza 900 
    • C0705008 – DeptID for MIZZOU Market Hitt Street 
  • Default is 00 if a detail project is not used 
  • Detail Project is required for the below listed projects (future projects may be identified and required as needed) 
  • Eight alphanumeric characters:  
    • For non-grant projects  
      • Alpha designation of the Business Unit is the first character 
      • Type of project is the second character, for non-grants 
      • Sequential numbers are the third through eighth characters 
    • For grant projects  
      • Projects converted from legacy system and older projects will have alpha designation of the Business Unit as the first character and G or 0 as the second character 
      • Current projects are created sequentially using all numeric characters 
  • Used for activities that are temporary in duration and for which revenues and expenditures may be accumulated over more than one fiscal year 
  • Must have defined start and end dates that may not correspond to a fiscal year 
  • Current Projects include: 
 Project NameProject Number* 
ÑÇÖÞÓ°Ôº Alzheimer Program LAxxxxxx 
Research Board LBxxxxxx 
Construction LCxxxxxx, LPxxxxxx 
Departmental LDxxxxxx 
Continuing Education LExxxxxx 
Grants and Contracts LGxxxxxx, Lxxxxxxx, xxxxxxx 
University Research Council LRxxxxxx 
Student Organizations LSxxxxxx 
Nexus e-commerce EXxxxxxx 

*L denotes campus indicator/Business Unit 

  • Body: Default is 0 if a detail program is not used 
  • For activities that need to be captured for System-wide, campus-wide, or interdepartmental purposes 
  • Five alphanumeric characters:  
    • Alpha designation of the Business Unit is the first character except for programs affecting multiple campuses which use an X as the first character to indicate that it is a cross-campus program 
    • Type of program is specified in the second through fifth characters (see chart below) 
  • Current examples of programs classified in this ChartField include: 
PeopleSoft Program Number Range Description 
L0000-L3999 Endowments, Additional Endowment Income Accounts 
L4000-L5999 Expendable Gift Accounts 
L6000-L6999 Loans 
L7000-L7999 Agency 
L8000-L8099 Extension/College of Agriculture 
L8100-L8299 Capital State Appropriation 
L8300-L8399 Bond Proceeds 
L8400-L8499 Capital Grants 
L8500-L8599 Capital Gifts 
L8600-L8699 System Facilities Plant Funds 
L8700-L9999 Campus Initiatives (e.g. Food for 21st Century), Reserves, other programs not yet defined for a single campus 
X8700-X9999 Campus Initiatives, Reserves, other programs not yet defined that affect multiple campuses 

*L denotes campus indicator/business unit 

Examples

  • R0003 – UMR Aerospace Engineering Scholarship 
  • S6012 – UMSL O.M. Scott Loan 
  • K7007 – UMKC Alumni Association 
  • Required on income and expense transactions 
  • Default is 0 if a detail class is not used 
  • Optional field, but individual divisions or departments may mandate its use 
  • Five alphanumeric characters 
  • Predefined with general descriptions that are applicable System-wide 
  • Predefined classes at this time are:

    Class Class Number 
    EMployee EMxxx 
    ACtivity ACxxx 
    LOcation LOxxx 
    CLinic CLxxx 
    OTher OTxxx 
    COunties COxxx 
  • Used with Account to provide detailed information about transactions at the division and department level, no system or campus reports will be run using Class 
  • Example transaction: Account number 721100 and class EM001 would contain Employee 001's in-state business travel