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Contacting your Direct Travel Advisor

Friday, March 22, 2024

Direct Travel Advisors can be used for UBC related or personal travel and are able to provide general advice on your travel planning, bookings, and travel cancellation insurances.

To get in contact with an advisor from Direct Travel, you can reach out by emailing...

Brian Pokojoy joins Integrated Service Centre as Senior Product Manager

Thursday, March 14, 2024

As Senior Product Manager, Workday Student, Brian will be responsible for assembling and leading Integrated Service Centre's new Workday Student product team. This will include supporting the functionality of Workday Student and driving continuous improvement initiatives to ensure that it meets...

Claiming employment expenses with the T2200 form

Friday, March 08, 2024

Although the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) discontinued the T2200S short forms for the 2023 tax year, some may still be eligible to deduct home office expenses with the...

2023/24 Call-in session resources now available for faculty and staff

Thursday, March 07, 2024

On March 6, 2024, a call-in session was held with the UBC finance community. This session provided an overview of the year end timelines and procedures for 2023/24.

The recording and slide deck from the call-in session is...

Divya Shetty joins ISC Service Desk as ISC Service Centre Manager

Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Welcome Divya Shetty, New ISC Service Centre Manager

Divya joins the ISC Service Desk team to work alongside co-Manager, Liam Murphy, and Senior Manager, Veekay Padhi. Divya has been with the ISC since May 2023, in her first role as a Service Desk Support Specialist, where...

T2200S Update – Temporary Flat Rate method of claiming home office expenses discontinued for the 2023 tax year

Friday, February 23, 2024

The “Temporary Flat Rate Method” of claiming home expenses on the T2200S form ended December 31, 2022, and is no longer available for the 2023 tax year.

The Canada Revenue Agency introduced the “...

Is your expense report sitting in draft mode?

Thursday, February 22, 2024

A reminder to always check if your expense report has been submitted to ensure credit card transactions are in progress. Note that transactions on draft expense reports will not appear in the list of transactions available to add to expense reports.

To find transactions on...

T4 / T4A tax slips for faculty & staff are now available

Thursday, February 22, 2024

UBC issues tax slips online as PDFs that are identical to the printed form and are accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) when filing your taxes.

UBC faculty and staff can now access their payroll-related 2023 T4 and T4A tax slips for personal income tax returns...

Digital Payments Program: Credit card transaction fee

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Starting February 2024, the Digital Payments Program (DDP) credit card transaction fees will be allocated using summary journal lines instead of individual entries.

Due to an impact to the manual cash reconciliation functionality, the use of ad hoc bank transactions as...

Preparing for 2023/2024 fiscal year end

Thursday, February 22, 2024

In preparation for the fiscal year-end, please consider the following dates and procedures to ensure goods and services expenses are recorded, approved, and/or closed in the fiscal year.

Purchase requisitions

Submit requisitions as soon as possible