Areas of Focus
- Internal Billing
- Planning & Budgeting
- Procure to Pay
- General Ledger
- Communications
- Research - Grants & Billing
- Capital Projects
- Cash Management
- Fixed Assets
- Training
- Operational Reporting
- Managerial Reporting
- Security and Identity
- Access Management
- Stakeholder Change Management
Benefits
The Ascend 2.0 Program will produce the following benefits in the future state of financial operations at UCLA:
- Support strategic decision-making to ensure quality and aggregation of data
- User-friendly interface and transparency in processes for the procure-to-pay process
- Improve productivity (value-add, low risk, ease, etc.) through streamlined business processes to spend less time on non-mission critical tasks
- Enable appropriate use of University resources
- Provide mobility and self-service capabilities including ease of access to data
- Deliver a scalable system environment that will grow with the university
- Ensure quality of data to guide current and future endeavors
- Administer post-award functions of UCLA’s $1B annual research enterprise
- Streamlined process to make payments to vendors
- Manage department/unit budgets and finances and prepare the institution’s financial statement