Financial FormsNirvana (FFN)

Financial FormsNirvana is a form preparation, editing, routing, and approval engine. For more information about FFN, how it works, and how to get access, review the following links.

FFN Information Kiosk

Financial FormsNirvana system hours:

FFN is available daily from 5:40 am to 6:15 pm and 6:45 pm to 5:00 am (usually including holidays). Approximately once per month, the system is down for an extended period of time on weekends to perform routing system maintenance, installations, or archiving activities.

TOPIC	LINKS	AUDIENCE
Messages for users	Important messages for FFN users--late breaking news updated regularly.	everyone
FFN PDFs	A list of FFN forms and their PDF capability. Note: Please refer to your training materials for information on using PDFs.	everyone
Contracts for Professional Services, and related payments	The Object code grid describing which FFN form to use, at what dollar amounts, for which Object/Sub-Object combinations.	CPS and PVC preparers
Employee Payments	The object code grid describing which object/sub-object combinations are valid for use on the Employee Payment (EP) form.	EP preparers
Purchasing card (ECAR & CAR) processing calendar	Check out the calendars of when the weekly statements will be generated for preparers, and when the monthly "CAR" job will be run (monthly job takes incomplete ECARs, and any statement for cardholders who do not have FFN access, and changes them into "CARs" or "paper" reports that get emailed to the department for processing offline). Need to replace a lost CAR? Click here.	purchasing card program pariticpants
	Purchasing Card Program Application Form (13K pdf) - 1/30/03	purchasing card program pariticpants
Access to FN	Job aid for the Central Authentication Hub (372k pdf) - 8/1/04	everyone
	Financial FormsNirvana Provisional Access FFN Provisional Access PDF (98K pdf) - 2/27/06	everyone
	FormsNirvana home page (must sit with someone who already has access)	everyone
	General FormsNirvana information for departments	everyone
	The system is slow. Who do I tell, and what do I tell them?	everyone
	ACCESS AGREEMENT	everyone
Closing Purchase Orders	Encumbrance Release (ER) form job aid (41K pdf) - 6/12/00	everyone
POT terms & conditions	Terms_Cond_POT_PC.pdf (18K pdf) - 5/3/01	POT preparers
Hints	Helpful hints for users	everyone
USTORES	University Store Ordering Steps to take for a department	UStores orderers
PV instructions	Payment Voucher form instructions	PV preparers
	Special payments information (Accounts Payable policy) Special payments grid (Purchasing policy)	PV preparers
	Purchasing grid A from Training Services (333K pdf) - 1/16/03	PV preparers
	Purchasing grid B from Training Services (329K pdf) - 1/16/03	POT/PV preparers
OBJECT CODES ALLOWED PV/PO	Object/Sub-Object codes you may use on the FormsNirvana PV and POT	PV preparers
Vendor name abbrev	Commonly used abbreviations for vendor names in CUFS	POT preparers
Division administrator information	Describes the system, roles, responsibilities, etc. for division administrators.	division admins
	Division administrator checklist	division admins
	Division administrator decision tree	division admins
	Instructions for the FNA (FormsNirvana access requests)	division admins
	Instructions for the FND (FormsNirvana division maintenance form)	division admins
	Instructions for the FNN (FormsNirvana new division form)	division admins
Policies	University Financial policies on the web	everyone
Reports	Financial reports on the web	approvers and administrators
Training	Information on classes offered or to register for a class	everyone
Help	University Financial Helpline 612-624-1617 fsshelp@umn.edu	everyone

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