Frequently Asked Questions

Contact Maria Sanchez, Assistant Controller, at extension 7410 for questions regarding unrestricted accounts. Contact the Finance Office at extension 5998 for questions regarding grant, contract, restricted and endowment accounts and your call will be directed to the appropriate staff member. You can also email us at accounting@sandiego.edu and your question will be directed appropriately.

For current fiscal year gifts and other deposits, please forward requests to change or correct account numbers directly to the Cashier. Correction requests to prior year cash receipts should be submitted in writing along with appropriate documentation to the Office of the Controller. Please note that financial accounting standards prevent us from reallocating any gift without written approval from the donor.

The answer to this question depends on the issue:

• Questions regarding expense transactions (e.g., incorrect amounts or expenses charged to the wrong budget line) should be directed to the Office of the Controller at accounting@sandiego.edu.
• Questions regarding your budget or line item budget appropriations should be directed to the Budget Office at budget@sandiego.edu.

Financial information for departments, grants, contract, restricted gifts and endowments is obtained directly from the Oracle application, on a real-time basis. See the Oracle Training web page for further information.

An expense transfer for goods and services or a correction to expenses already processed may be handled by completing the Journal Entry Request Form (Excel).

Endowment spending allowances are calculated at four percent of the trailing three-year average of each endowment fund's market value. See the Endowment web page for further information.

Burdened Benefits represent fringe benefit costs associated with paying an employee. The university uses a dual system for charging fringe benefits: one set of rates applies to Federal grants and contracts, and one set of rates applies for everything else.

Effective 07/01/2018

Effective 07/01/2016 - 06/30/2018

Email Accounting at accounting@sandiego.edu for both forms.