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This memo outlines important dates for the upcoming year-end (as at March 31, 2022) by which pertinent information needs to be submitted to Finance and/or appropriate action needs to be taken. We need your strict adherence to these dates to complete the financial statements, external audit, Board and Ministry reporting in a stipulated and tight timeframe.   

DEADLINES ARE TO BE INTERPRETED AS 4:30 P.M. OF THE DATE SPECIFIED 

a) Procurement – Friday, January 21, 2022

It is strongly recommended that all Request for Proposal and related purchasing activities be initiated by the above date to ensure adequate time is allotted to complete the procurement cycle by yearend date. Reminder that goods must be received, and/or services must be rendered by March 31st to be recorded against the 2021-22 fiscal year budget. 

b) Revenue Deferral – Friday, February 25, 2022

Requests for unearned revenue deferrals should be based on the anticipated yearend balance and must be made by submitting a Revenue Deferral Request Form to evan.chin@humber.ca by the above date. Requests will be approved in accordance with accounting principles. The form identifies eligibility criteria. 

c) New Fund, Org or Reporting Hierarchy Changes for the new fiscal year – Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Requests for new fund/org codes or reporting hierarchy change requests should be submitted by March 22 to your Finance Liaison to be ready for the new fiscal year. No new or change requests will be processed in Banner during the period from April 1 to April 30 as Finance completes year-end activities. 

d) Accounts Receivable – Thursday, March 24, 2022

All requests to invoice (external) customers for current fiscal year activities must be made by submitting a Request to Invoice form to accounts.receivable@humber.ca by the above date.  

e) Interdepartmental Charges – Thursday, March 31, 2022

All interdepartmental charges (i.e. Capital Works, Telephone, Graphics etc.) or journal entry requests for the current fiscal year must be submitted by the above date. 

f) Purchase Card (MasterCard) – Thursday, March 31, 2022

All purchase card transactions must be processed and approved in Chrome River by the above date. 

It is important to note that until transactions are APPROVED in Chrome River, they are not transferred to and recorded in Banner. It is imperative that transactions are approved by the deadline to ensure they are recorded in Banner against the Fiscal 2021-22 budget. Any unapproved transactions will be recorded against next year’s budget.  Please visit the Finance website Chrome River training documentation for a Job Aid on How to Approve P-Card Transactions.   

g) Out of Pocket Travel & Expense Claims – Thursday, March 31, 2022 

Travel & expense claims must be processed and approved in Chrome River by the above date, otherwise they will be processed in the next fiscal year.  

h) Banner Purchase Order Receiving – Thursday, March 31, 2022

Banner receiving is an online acknowledgement that goods ordered or services rendered have been appropriately received and vendor invoice is approved for payment. Banner receiving must be completed for goods or services received by the above date. 

If Banner receiving is not complete by the above deadline, expenses will be recorded against next fiscal year’s budget. 

i) Vendor Invoices – Friday, April 1, 2022

Vendor invoices must be emailed to Accounts Payable by the above date. Please note that Banner receiving must be complete by the date specified above (f); otherwise, the expense will be charged against next fiscal year’s budget. 

Note: Purchase orders with remaining balance of $100 (or less) and all standing orders for current year will be closed as of March 31, 2022 (i.e. not rolled over into the new fiscal year).  

j) Prepaid Expenses 

As per accounting principles, payments made in the current fiscal year that relate to goods being received or services being rendered beyond March 31, 2022 date will be automatically charged to next fiscal year’s budget. 

k) Payroll Timecards and Vacation Approval (HRMS) – Thursday, March 31, 2022 

All timecards for work performed in the current fiscal year and vacation plan for up to and including March 31, 2022 must be approved by the above date.   Further communication will be provided in March from HR/Payroll.  

2022-23 Fiscal Year Readiness 

Please note that effective March 1, 2022, the fiscal 2022-2023 budget will be avaliable in Banner to process procurement related activities. Purchasing will host two (2) refresher sessions on Tuesday, Februrary 15, 2022 from 1 to 3 p.m. and Wednesday, Februrary 23, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. to review items such as creating standing orders. Please email purchasing@humber.ca to register for one of these two sessions.

Summary 

We appreciate and thank everyone in advance for their cooperation. Please contact anyone on our Finance team if you have any questions on the above, or yearend activities in general. 

Quick Reference Table of Yearend Deadlines 

Did you know that Humber has a program that provides support for tuition costs?

Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is designed to assist employees with tuition costs and support their professional development by:

• Making learning affordable.
• Providing access to tuition reimbursement, up to $1,000 per year for full-time employees and $500 per year for part-time/contract admin, academic and partial load employees, and regular part-time support staff.

To learn more, please visit our HROE Tuition Assistance Program website for more details.

Please view Humber’s Professional Development Policy.

Apart from this Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), there are many more provisions available for you to advance your professional development. 

To learn more about these, see our Employee Professional Development at a Glance for an overview of our professional development programs.

Have questions? Email us at oe@humber.ca.

I am pleased to announce that Moriba Baker, Associate Dean, Social and Media Communications in the Faculty of Media and Creative Arts, successfully defended his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Policy on December 10, 2021. Moriba completed his Doctor of Philosophy with the University of the West Indies – St. Augustine at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social Economic Studies (SALISES).

Moriba’s study focussed on the effectiveness and efficiency of Sporting Academies especially in Small Island Developing States. It was a qualitative study with data collection and analyses based on Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) and the evaluation based on both the Sport Policy factors Leading to International Sporting Success (SPLISS) and Balance Scorecard (BSC) approaches. The findings of the study are significant as they contribute to the corpus of literature or scholarship on sport in general, and sport policy and evaluation. The study unearths an unexplored and under researched area in sport within the Caribbean region and it is the first sport academy evaluation research in the Caribbean region. This study through its approaches was able to generate a theory which is not only suitable for sport but also several other disciplines. Finally, the study’s methodology which was grounded in the SPLISS, BSC and GT approaches to evaluation is not widely applied and presented an opportunity to show their wider applicability or generalizability.

For more information on Moriba's findings and the Doctoral program please contact him directly at moriba.baker@humber.ca.

Guillermo Acosta
Senior Dean, Faculty of Media & Creative Arts