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10 Jun 2020: The latest issue of the Finance Weekly Bulletin, No. 815, is now available from the UFS website. A summary of this week’s items is given below and Key Contacts are requested to share this information with staff in their departments as appropriate.

4 Nov 2020: The University and all its staff have a responsibility to ensure that their dealings, and the supply chains of those who we trade with, are free from any sort of modern slavery in compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

15 Jul 2020: A significant milestone has been reached in the University's financial systems landscape as the Planning and Resources Committee (PRC) recently approved the CUFS (Cambridge University Finance System) software upgrade from Oracle 12.1.3 to the latest

27 Jan 2020: Specific process Reference To sign contracts in the course of ordinary business (for those funds they are responsible for) Fin Regs 6.1 Provide prior written consent for non-University commercial activities to be carried out Fin Regs 25.1 Approve

24 Jul 2020: A major step towards creating a simpler, more user-friendly approach to how the University procures, purchases and pays for its goods, works and services was made this week (July 24) with the launch of Version 1 of the new Procurement Services

27 Jan 2020: The new Criminal Finances Act (CFA) 2017 will make companies and organisations including universities criminally liable if they fail to prevent tax evasion by either a member of their staff or an external agent, even where the organisation was not

26 Jun 2020: Through its response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Finance has had to adapt at speed to keep critical business functions operating, while progressing major functional activities such as the budget and year-end process.

27 Jan 2020: The University Training Booking System (UTBS) records those who have undertaken the training and provides direct evidence of the extent to which it has been successfully promulgated within the University. A monthly report is sent from Finance

17 Mar 2020: During the first two weeks of March, the Finance Transformation Programme (FTP) has been feeding back the results of its Discovery Phase to key stakeholders and those who took part in the engagement activity. One of the feedback sessions was

27 Jan 2020: Money laundering is the process of taking profits from crime and corruption and transforming them into legitimate assets. It takes criminally-derived ‘dirty funds’ and converts them into other assets so they can be reintroduced into legitimate