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Process and Timeline

Processing Your Monthly Department Financial Review

An effective process will help you identify errors and inconsistencies, determine availability of funds and identify internal control deficiencies. UTSA’s reconciliation process begins with financial information posting to the SAHARA reconciliation, an automated reconciliation tool contained within UTShare/PeopleSoft, and ends with approver/owners electronically approving the reconciliation:

Process and Timeframe

The monthly reconciliation process must minimally include the following steps:
View the reconciliation training and checklist on the Accounting Services Training website for more details.

  • Review your revenue, expense and budget transactions in SAHARA. Submit correction requests for expenses or revenues that need to be moved to another cost center or project.
    • See Corrections web page for instructions on how to submit a correction.
  • Review amount available to spend to ensure an adequate budget balance remains for any pending transactions.
    • Negative balances that are correct must be fixed immediately through a correction or a budget transfer from another allowable set of funds.
  • PeopleSoft records commitments the department has made for purchases or travel as encumbrances. The reconciler must review these encumbrances monthly for accuracy.
  • You must maintain a listing of any purchase requisitions more than $15,000 until they generate a completed purchase order.
  • You must monthly reconcile actual salary expense to the annual budget by position for non-hourly employees.
    • Refer to the Salary Reconciliation Template on the Accounting Services Training website for more information.
    • You must be able to demonstrate how this detailed review is performed as requested during a QAR.
  • You are not required to keep a separate ledger or listing of all transactions; however, you should be aware of departmental activity so that you will notice if something significant is missing.

You must complete the SAHARA reconciliation process each month. The department reconciler should complete reconciliations by the end of the month following the month being reconciled. The department manager should ensure the reconciliation is completed and approved by six weeks after month-end. The QAR process will include review of the timeliness of reconciliations and approvals.