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News, Information, and Announcements from FI$Cal
California CIO Academy a Big Success for FI$Cal
FI$Cal came out of the California Public Sector CIO Academy in strong fashion, with our leaders featured on four panels and two of our own capturing awards at the March 24-25 event. This year’s edition was held virtually, and much of the discussion centered on how...
Finance and SCO Establish Revised Deadlines for Departments’ Financial Reporting for Fiscal Year 2020-21
Departments are gaining additional time to submit year-end financial reports to the State Controller’s Office for all their funds. The revised deadlines are prescribed in Budget Letter 21-04 from the state Department of Finance (Finance). Finance will continue to...
FI$Cal Deploying Robotic Process Automation to Help Departments
The Department of FISCal is increasing its use of robotic process automation (RPA) to make life easier for our system users and their departments. RPA employs software, known as “bots,” to perform ordinary tasks that must be run over and over again. Think of it as...
February Enhancements
The Department of FISCal continually makes updates and enhancements to the system based on feedback from our end users. Our goal is to improve usability while maintaining the highest level of security for the state’s data. FI$Cal released the following enhancements in...
March FI$Facts
Question: I created a purchase order (PO) for information technology services which will be paid in phases as the vendor completes them. Is there a way to enter this setup on the PO? There is no Std 213 or 215 created as it was via a Master Service Agreement (MSA)....
After a Tumultuous Year, We Have Adapted in New Age of Telework
By Jenny Maguire, Deputy Director, FI$Cal Administrative Services Division We are approaching the one-year anniversary of when the coronavirus pandemic required a shift to home-based telework as a necessary response to a terrible crisis. On January 1, we officially...