The University of Saskatchewan centralizes the management and collection of finance receivables. The billing to customer accounts is decentralized and any service unit can bill customers in Banner Non-Student A/R. When going live with Banner in 2005 this posed several challenges, since establishing detail codes for each service unit and revenue CFOAPAL was likely to pose several challenges and significant on-going maintenance. Additionally, we wanted to decentralize the ability to make charges without decentralizing access to the Banner A/R module.

To address this we developed a process to allow service units to bill a fund associated with a customer, and have those charges flow through to a customer account in Banner A/R. This has allowed our campus units to prepare journal vouchers and submit finance feeds to generate A/R billings. We have also minimized the number of detail codes and the number of individuals with access to Banner A/R. These changes were made with only one change to a baseline form, and some additional processes for creating and submitting feeds. This session will provide a functional overview for finance accounts receivable offices with highlights of the technical components used.