Cal Answers Financials

Updates to Cal Answers Payroll dashboard

July 30, 2020
Updates to Cal Answers Payroll dashboard and legacy Payroll Leave Accrual report is retired Cal Answers Payroll Community, We’re pleased to announce that in response to user feedback we’ve made a number of enhancements to the...

Cal Answers Payroll dashboard live and HR dashboard updates

May 14, 2020
Cal Answers Payroll and HR Communities,
As part of the UCPath conversion, we have updated the Cal Answers Payroll dashboard and we are pleased to announce it is now live with data from UCPath. The Payroll dashboard you have been using up to this point has been renamed...

Cal Answers Permanent Budget Reporting dashboard updated

April 24, 2020
Permanent Budget Report Users, We have updated the Cal Answers Permanent Budget Reporting dashboard for FY20 data and we are pleased to announce it is now live with data converted due to UCPath. (Please note that faculty funding remains at the time being as of June 30, 2019 levels.) The Permanent Budget dashboard you...

Saved Customizations and Bookmark Links

Goodbye BAIRS!

December 21, 2018
Cal Answers Financials Community,
We did it - say goodbye to BAIRS! Today is the last day that BAIRS will be available. Cal Answers reporting now includes finance, HR, payroll, and student data. Using Cal Answers means you can customize your dashboards as needed, drill from summary data to detail, and share reports using bookmark links. During the course of 2018, we partnered with our campus subject matter experts to release numerous new dashboards and we would like to extend a...

Upcoming Cal Answers upgrade, save your bookmark links and customizations

December 4, 2018

Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,

Now that we’ve completed all the releases necessary to transition from BAIRS to Cal Answers, we’re working on incorporating your feedback on Cal Answers and implementing some upgrades to the system. The Cal Answers upgrade will be released in February and will improve the user experience by providing the ability to copy data directly out of Cal Answers reports and enabling users to create and reuse custom columns.

Recreate saved customizations and bookmark links...

Permbudg, Ad Hoc, and new General Ledger reports now available

October 4, 2018
Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,
We're excited to announce that we've reached a major milestone in the retirement of BAIRS and our transition to Cal Answers! Cal Answers now boasts a full suite of functionality to replace BAIRS. We'd like to extend a big thank you to the project teams and everyone who partnered with us and provided feedback. Going forward, your point of contact for questions will be the Help Desk at...

Encumbrance and Procurement Card Reporting now available

September 13, 2018
Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,
Based on your feedback, rather than doing a phased shut-off we'll leave all the BAIRS dashboards open through December 21. On December 22, 2018 we will close down BAIRS and the system will no longer be accessible.
As we get closer to BAIRS retirement, please take this opportunity to use Cal Answers for all your reporting activities while BAIRS is still available to ensure you can find the information you need within the new dashboards.
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July 2018 Top 10 Cal Answers Financials Report Runners!

August 6, 2018

Check out our Top 10 Cal Answers Financials report runners for the month of July 2018!

Financial Management Reporting (FMR) General Ledger

As a campus, we ran 15% more Cal Answers Financials reports in July over June. Thank you to all our BAIRS users who are making the switch to Cal Answers Financials!

We will continue to...

July’s Top 10 Cal Answers Financial Management Report Runners!

Congratulations to our early adopters of the new Cal Answers Financial Management Reports! These top 10 report runners ran 24% of all the FMR reports run in July.

These report...