Key Audiences
Madison Accounts Payable Purchase Order (Madison APPO)
- Attendees of Financial Managers Meetings (FMM) and Divisional Business Representatives (DBR’s) in the Dean’s Office
- People who currently use mainframe accounting transactions such as EPRQ, INQR, GENR, etc.
- Requisition preparers – people who prepare paper external requisition forms
- Departments who have their own internal software system to help manage their purchase orders, encumbrances and payments
- People who monitor departmental or divisional budgets
Automated Travel System (ATS)
- University Employee Travelers (Potentially all 40,000 employees)
- Non-employee Travelers (About 35% of University Travel activity involves non-employees)
- Travel Proxies (Those who provide administrative support/assistance to travelers – approximately 2500 people)
- Approvers (Those who approve travel authorizations and expense reports – approximately 4000 people)
- Auditors (Those who audit expense reports – approximately 300 people)
Effort System (replaces PAR)
- Faculty and academic staff at Madison, Milwaukee, and Extension who work on sponsored projects (approximately 10,000 employees at all three business units combined)
- Department-level effort coordinators (approximately 500 employees at all three business units combined)
- Department chairs and department-level research administrators, responsible for managing pre-award/proposal and post-award processes, and for knowing and communicating institutional policies
- Department-level payroll coordinators, responsible for charging salaries to appropriate funding sources – in collaboration with research administrators, where appropriate
- Research administrators at the level of the Dean's Offices
- Business service administrators at the level of the Dean's Offices
- Central campus research administrators:
- Madison – Research and Sponsored Programs
- Milwaukee – Research Services and Administration
- Extension – Office of Extramural Support
- Campus decision-makers, who participate in the formulation of institutional policy by interpreting federal and state regulations:
- Madison:
- Associate Deans for Research
- Research Policy Advisory Committee
- Milwaukee:
- Research Policy Committee
- Senior campus leadership (chancellors, provosts, and academic deans), who set the tone for compliance with federal, state, and university policies
Grants Project
- University researchers
- Departmental research administrators
- College/School research administrators
Legacy Accounting to SFS Transition (LAST)
UW-Madison financial community