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The following is a list of standard courses associated with the North Carolina Financial System. The schedule of classes is posted in LMS. If your organization has training needs beyond the normally scheduled classes, please contact us right away. We will work with your team to meet your training needs.

Please note there will be no admittance to class after 30 minutes of the session start time.

 

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Title Summary Duration Format
AP001 - AP Inquiry

This course covers the inquiry process on AP invoices and payments using basic and advanced search modes.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AP100 - AP Agency Payment Management

This course covers key concepts in payment management, provides an overview of payment management process, and explains the transactions and reports involved in payment management.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AP101 - Invoice Management

This course covers invoice management and types of transactions, explains the invoice management process, performing the invoice management tasks, and provides an overview of various invoice management reports.

8 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AP102 - AP Approvals

This course describes the AP approval process and the steps to force approve an invoice.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AP103 - Ad Hoc Accounting & Adjusting Entries - OSC Only

This course provides an overview of the ad hoc accounting process in AP and reviewing the entries post submission to the general ledger.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AP104 - AP Period Management - OSC Only

This course covers the AP period management process and its key activities such as managing AP periods and AP reports.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AP105 - AP Payment Printer

This course covers the check payment process and demonstrates how to print checks, record print status, reprint checks, and search payments.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AP106 - AP Central Payment Management - OSC Only

This course covers the concept of all the centralized payment related activities.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AP107 - AP Void Payment

This course covers the concept of managing payments in NCFS, such as, view payments, stop payments, and void payment.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AP108 - Invoice Release Hold

This course covers the process to release various types of invoices on hold for payment.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AR001 - Account Receivable Inquiry

This course provides an explanation on various types and modes of AR inquiry and shows how to perform inquiry  in NCFS.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
AR100 - Customer Maintenance

This course provides an explanation of the customer maintenance process, perform the customer maintenance transactions, and interpret customer maintenance reports.

2.5 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AR101 - Collections Management

The course covers the key concepts associated with collection management, provides an overview of the customer management transactions, and helps understand the collection reports.

4 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AR102 - Receipt Management

This course covers the receipt management and receipt adjustment process, by providing an overview of the transactions involved in receipt management, and explains receipt management reports.

3.5 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AR103 - Invoice Management - DPI Only

This course covers invoice management and types of transactions, by explaining the tasks and providing an overview of various invoice management reports.

2.5 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AR104 - Invoice Management - DHHS Only

This course covers invoice management and the types of transactions, by explaining the invoice management process, performing the invoice management tasks, and provides an overview of various invoice management reports.

3 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
AR105 - AR Period Management - OSC Only

This course covers the process to close an AR period and to run AR period close reports.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
BU001 - Budget Inquiry

This course covers various types of reports and dashboards used to inquire about budgets.

2 hours Web-Based Training (WBT)
BU100 - Budget Management

This course provides an overview of the NCFS Release 1 Budget module capabilities for the Budget Analysts and how NCFS’ budget module works together with IBIS. Attendees will compare budgetary processes in IBIS to budgetary processes in the NCFS’ Budget module.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
BU102 - Budget Period Management - OSC Only

This course covers the budget period management process and key activities such as managing budget calendars and budget periods.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
CM100 - Bank Reconciliation

This course covers the key concepts associated with bank reconciliation, steps in the bank reconciliation process, and helps in performing manual and automatic bank reconciliation.

3 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
EX100 - Expense Reports and Cash Advances

This course covers the key concepts associated with expense reports & cash advances, and explains expense reports, WEX expenses, and cash advance reports.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
EX101 - Expense Auditor

This course covers the expense audit management process, explains the expense reports, cash advances, and interpretation of audit expense reports.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
EX102 - Expense Audit Manager

This course covers the expense audit management process, explains the expense reports, cash advances, and the interpretation of audit expense reports.

2 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
EX103 - Employee Expense Information Management

This course explains employee expense data management and covers the key activities performed by an expense data manager.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FA001 - Fixed Asset Inquiry

This course provides an overview of fixed assets and its corresponding transactions along with the steps to perform both basic and advanced fixed assets inquiries.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FA100 - Asset Accounting

This course covers the concept of asset accounting and the entire life cycle of an asset in NCFS.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
FA101 - Asset Management - OSC Only

This course provides an overview of asset management and reporting, as well as the steps to manage asset depreciation and explain creation of accounting concepts.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
FA102 - FA Asset Additions

This course describes the fixed asset addition methods, key associated reports, and the steps to perform a fixed asset addition.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FAN100 - Financial Accounting System Basics

This short video provides a basic overview of financial accounting, account types, double-entry accounting, and the concept of T accounts. Each term is explained in an easy to understand way.

5 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FAN101 - General Ledger Subledgers

Learn about the General Ledger and subledgers and how they are set up in the North Carolina Financial System (NCFS). Each term is explained in an easy to understand way.  This course also begins to explore the Chart of Accounts and coding block in NCFS.

5 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FAN102 - Cash vs Accrual

In this short video you will learn about cash and accrual basis accounting, their differences, and the advantages/disadvantages of each. Also, you will view how cash, accrual, and modified accrual are used in the North Carolina Financial Systems (NCFS).

6 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FAN103 - Assets and Liabilities

This short video provides an overview of Assets, where they are found, current vs. fixed assets, and methods of depreciation. See how cash, accrual, and modified accrual are used in the North Carolina Financial Systems (NCFS).

6 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FAN104 - Revenue and Expenditure

This microlearning explains how revenue and expenses are the building blocks of an Income statement and provides examples of revenue, expenses, and an income statement in a government organization.

5 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
FAN105 - Financial Statements

Building on previous FAN classes around Assets, Liabilities, Revenues, and Expenses, this microlearning covers the basics of Financial statements including income statements, balance sheets, statements of cash flow, and the notes to financial statements.

7 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GEN101 - Introduction and Overview of the North Carolina Financial System (NCFS)

This course provides an overview of the NCFS system, features, and benefits. It also highlights the decision-making process for choosing the new system, the number of individuals and organizations involved, the timeline to implement, and key change impact.

20 Minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GEN102c - North Carolina Chart of Accounts

This course explains the new chart of account segments in NCFS and covers the manual journal creation process.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GEN103 - NCFS Basic Navigation

This course is an overview of navigating the North Carolina Financial System (NCFS). It covers how to sign in, navigate the system, use the various components on the Home Page, set personal preferences, and sign out. This foundation course serves as a requirement for anyone who will use the NCFS application.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GEN104 - NCFS Common Features

This course provides details of commonly used features of the North Carolina Financial System (NCFS). It provides detailed instructions on how to do tasks that apply to some or all Financial modules and the system in general. This foundation course serves as a requirement for anyone who will be using the NCFS application.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GEN105 - NCFS Advanced Inquiry

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide users an overview of Advanced Inquiry features within NCFS. This course covers searches, sorting, filtering, and Excel export functionality in NCFS.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GEN106 - Submitting and Scheduling Existing Reports

This course covers an overview of the various reporting tools including BI publisher, OTBI, and FRS reports.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GL001 - GL Journal Inquiry

This course covers how to inquire about journal intercompany transactions and key general ledger reports.

3 hours Web-Based Training (WBT)
GL100c - Journal Entry

This course covers journal entry actions, describes the process to manage journal entries, and explains the functionality of general ledger reports.

8 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
GL101a - Journal Approver

This course provides an overview of how NCFS assigns the Journal Approver role to OSC Central Compliance users. Covers review of disbursement and/or deposit journal entries in NCFS.

10 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
GL101b - Journal Approval

This course covers the journal approval hierarchy, methods, and steps to journal approval for users transitioning from R1 to R3.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
GL101c - Journal Approval

This course covers the journal approval hierarchy, methods, and steps to journal approval for users transitioning from NCAS to NCFS.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
GL102 - Journal Posting - OSC Only

This course covers the processes of different journal postings and methods.

1.5 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
GL103 - Journal FBDI Uploads

This course covers the process to perform journal FBDI uploads and provides an overview of FBDI reports.

3 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
GL105 - GL Period Management - OSC Only

This course covers the period management process and all the activities related to period management activities.

1.25 hours Web-Based Training (WBT)
GM100 - Grants Management

This course covers the concept of grants, the purpose of entering budgets in spreadsheets, and how to analyze key grants management reports.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
IC100c - Transfer Entry Creation and Receiving

The course provides an overview of the transactions involved in managing intercompany transfers, explains the NC daily transfer reports, and the intercompany transfer entry process.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
IC101 - Intercompany Transfer Approval

This course demonstrates the key concepts of intercompany transfer approvals and rejections.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV001 - Inventory Inquiry

This course covers the different types of inventory inquiry and transactions along with the steps to review an inventory transaction and item costs.

25 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV100 - Inventory Request

This course covers the steps to create, submit, and manage SSP consumption requisitions.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV101 - Inventory Agency Manager

This course provides an overview of the inventory agency management process, including inventory transaction and related key reports.

2 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
INV102 - Inventory Cost Accounting

This course covers the inventory cost accounting by describing key cost accounting concepts, processes, and provides an overview of various reports available.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
INV103 - Warehouse Staff

This course provides an overview of cycle counts, warehouse reports, and key activities performed by the warehouse staff such as recording a count sequence and reviewing completed transaction and item costs.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV104 - Warehouse Receiving - DPI Only

This course covers the process of receiving goods against purchase orders and explains the process of returning and correcting receipts.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV105 - Inventory Management

This course covers the concept of the inventory management processes and the associated key transactions.

8 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
INV106 - Warehouse Transactions

This course covers warehouse transaction reporting, by showing steps on how to manage warehouse transactions, create transfer orders, and list different types of transactions.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
INV107 - Internal Consumption Requisition Approvals - DAC Only

This course covers the process to approve consumption requisitions and to manage consumption requisition notifications.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV108 - Period End Close - OSC Only

This course covers the concept of cost management, period end validation, and how to perform period end closing.

2.5 hours Web-Based Training (WBT)
INV109 - Inventory Item Maintenance

This course covers inventory item management, the process to manage inventory, and how to perform the actions associated with inventory management and interpretation of reports.

2 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
INV110 - Warehouse Approver

This course covers the key activities of a warehouse approver, such as auditing, approval, and rejection of a cycle count or request for a recount.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
OAR100 - North Carolina Annual Reporting Business Process Overview - OSC Course Only

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide users an overview of the entire Annual Reporting process. It covers the three phases of the process, as well as the steps analysts and administrators need to do in order to make sure the process is completed successfully.

17 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
OAR102 - Inputting Organizations Annual Reporting Information into NCFS - OSC Course Only

This microlearning is intended for the NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security role. In this learning, we provide learners a synopsis of how to upload organization's financial data into NCFS. This course covers Data Transformation functionality in NCFS.

20 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
OAR103 - Annual Report Processing Journal Entries - OSC Course Only

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of how to make adjustments to financial data from organizations. This course covers journal entry functionality in NCFS and Excel.

30 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
OAR105 - How Do I Data Forms - OSC Course Only

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of how to provide supplemental information to the financial statements. This course covers how to complete Data Forms in NCFS.

20 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
OAR106 - Annual Reporting - Introduction to Doclets - OSC Course Only

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of how the non-financial elements of the annual report are created. This course covers doclet functionality in NCFS.

26 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
PO001 - Procurement Inquiry

This course covers the procurement process and demonstrates the key procurement transactions.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
PO002 - Supplier Inquiry

This course covers the key activities involved in inquiring on supplier information and explains supplier reports and dashboard.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
PO101 - PO Procurement Requestor - AOC and DPI Only

This course covers requisition types and the process for creating and modifying requisitions.

6 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
PO102 - PO Buyer - AOC and DPI Only

This course covers the concept of purchasing and the key activities involved in managing purchases.

3 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
PO103 - Receiving - AOC Only

This course covers the receiving process and the key concepts associated with it by explaining the process of receiving goods and services and providing an overview of key receiving reports.

2 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
PO104 - Supplier Registration

This course covers the supplier registration process and the supplier related reports.

2 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
PO105 - Supplier Management - OSC Only

This course explains the supplier management process, supplier tax and components, and how to interpret supplier management reports.

8 hours Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
PO107 - PO Advanced Procurement Requestor - AOC and DPI Only

This course explains requisitions and its reports including activities, such as reassignment of requisitions.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
PO108 - PO Buyer Close

This course covers the process of integrated purchasing and the steps to close a purchase order.

45 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV100 - Overview of Smart View

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of features available to assist them in their financial data analysis. This course covers Smart View functionality in NCFS.

10 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV200 - NCFS Smart View Capabilities - Options Feature

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of features available to assist them in their financial data analysis. This course covers the Options feature within Smart View in NCFS.

12 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV201 - NCFS Smart View Capabilities Ad Hoc Analysis Feature - OSC Only

This course explains the uses and key features of the Smart View application and demonstrates financial data analysis using Smart View.

1 hour Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV202 - NCFS Smart View Capabilities - Keep Only and Remove Only Feature

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of features available to assist them in their financial data analysis. This course covers the Keep Only & Remove Only feature within Smart View in NCFS.

5 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV203 - NCFS Smart View Capabilities - Zoom In and Out Feature

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of features available to assist them in their financial data analysis. This course covers the Zoom In & Out feature within Smart View in NCFS.

7 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV204 - NCFS Smart View Capabilities - Dimension Members Feature

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of features available to assist them in their financial data analysis. This course covers the Dimension Members feature within Smart View in NCFS.

7 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)
SV205 - NCFS Smart View Capabilities - Mathematical Calculations Feature

This microlearning is intended for the SADFR analyst and NCFS Annual Reporting administrator security roles. In this learning, we provide learners an overview of features available to assist them in their financial data analysis. This course covers the Mathematical Calculations feature within Smart View in NCFS.

5 minutes Web-Based Training (WBT)