FOCUS
News, Information, and Announcements from FI$Cal
FI$Bot Gains More Functionality
FI$Bot, our increasingly capable virtual assistant, recently gained new functionality to help system users. FI$Bot is now equipped to handle questions for a second module – Accounts Payable (AP). Until now, the chatbot had only taken queries related to Procurement...
December 2019 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$Cal released the following enhancements in...
Happy Holidays
By Miriam Barcellona Ingenito, Director of FI$Cal On behalf of the FI$Cal family, I want to wish you many blessings this season and into the new year. The road we are on to modernize, standardize and streamline the state's financial processes has been a long one. It...
FI$Cal Employee Completes 100-Mile Footrace
You might wonder about a FI$Cal worker who got up at 3:30 a.m. to go out and run nine or 10 miles before work three days a week, then hit the trails for up to 20 miles on Saturdays and 30 on Sundays. In the case of Ka Xiong, Budget Officer in FI$Cal’s Administrative...
FI$Facts for December
Asset Management Question: We need to add a new capital asset in the AM module but the correct Useful Life value is not available. What do we need to do? Answer: To correct the issue your department needs to submit a Configuration Modification Request for PeopleSoft...
FI$CalTv Episode to Spotlight Relations Coordinators
The next episode of FI$CalTv, one of our initiatives that connect system users to subject matter experts, is scheduled for WebEx broadcast on December 19 at 1:30 p.m. The topic will be the role of FI$Cal's relations coordinators (RC). FI$CalTv host Jim Caselli will...