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Administrative Services Manual
Departmental Deposits

Section: Cashier Effective Date: 6/20/2006
ASM Policy: 4.3.2 Supersedes: 10/1/2004



I. Department Deposit sheets are used to make the processing of deposits faster and easier.
A. All departments making deposits in the Cashiers Office, MIT-285, must present a completed Departmental Deposit sheet.  The Departmental Deposit sheet is available at BFS On-Line Forms.
B. Any changes to the format of the deposit sheet must be approved by Accounting Services. However, departments may download the form and create a template to meet their specific needs using the current formatting.
C. Each sheet has room for three (3) separate entries. Attach additional sheets as necessary and fill out only one shaded portion of the multiple sheets.
D. Departments making deposits, which include taxable sales, must break out the tax portion and indicate both the state and county sales tax. Click here to download an Excel Tax Calculation Deposit sheet.
II. The Departmental Deposit sheet contains three distinct sections, header, accounting and source of funds. The header identifies what division and department, deposit date and total.  The accounting section is where to enter information to properly credit the General Ledger. The shaded area contains contact information and source of funds to support the deposit.
A. Header
1. Acct ID: Enter your division number in the 2nd and 3rd spaces of the nine digit account number.
2. Department: Enter your department or program name.
3. Deposit Date: Enter date of deposit as MM/DD/YY.
4. Total Deposit: Total amount of deposit (see II.B.6 below).
B. Accounting
1. MCode:  Enter the four digits cashiering MCode. If no MCode has been assigned to your general ledger number, enter MISC.

A cashiering MCode allows for faster preparation of your deposit sheet and cashiering.  All MCodes except for MISC have a pre-assigned General Ledger Number. Call Accounting Services at 4302 for a list of pre-assigned MCodes for your department. The form to request a new MCode is available at BFS On-line Forms 

a. If a pre-assigned MCode is entered, the General Ledger Number should not be entered on the deposit sheet.
b. MISC necessitates that the General Ledger Number must be entered on the deposit sheet.
2. Amount: Amount being credited to the MCode or MISC listed for this entry.
3. General Ledger Number: Fund-Project/Grant-Budget Yr-Organization-Program-Account. Refer to ASM 2.7.1 for correct SFS coding. Note that program numbers are now required for deposits of receipts/revenues as well as for Refunds of Disbursements.
4. Subclass: Refer to ASM 2.7.6 for correct subclass coding. Subclass is used in three different circumstances.
a. County sales tax has been collected and coded to account 9220. The subclass for the specific county must be included. Subclass for Milwaukee county is TC040.
b. Account numbers; 2420, 4480, 4485, 4490, 4520 and 4525 require a building number which can be found in the Subclass table.
c. A Subclass may be used to further define an account number.
5. GL Ref #:  This is the IAS General Ledger Reference Number. Fill in one of the following if applicable:
a. Purchase Order number if one was charged and it should be referenced.
b. Last 4 digits of a Social Security number. This is to comply with privacy regulations regarding Social Security numbers.
c. Travel advance number if it is a Travel Advance repayment (Fund 991). Append TA00 to number.
6. Invoice:  Invoice number of paid UW Milwaukee Accounts Receivable or department invoice.
7. Description: Up to 30 characters of information can be entered. However, entry of an invoice number reduces the visibility of the description to only the first 24 characters on the journal line.
C. Source of Funds: If multiple deposit sheets are presented for a single deposit, complete only one shaded portion for all deposit sheets.
1. Charges: Charges are submitted to General Accounting with their own Department Deposit deposit sheet. Do not mix charges with other sources of funds.
2. Bag: Departments with a large volume of deposits may submit bagged deposits. Bagged deposits allow for the department to seal checks, currency and coin in a secured bank bag and present the bag to the Cashiers Office. Enter the total of the contents in the bag.
3. Checks: All checks must be stamped with an authorized endorsement stamp. Two or more checks must be bundled with two equal adding machine tapes attached.  The adding machine tapes must reflect 2 decimals and be at least 5 inches in length.  Enter the total of all checks associated with the deposit sheet(s).
4. Currency:  Enter the total amount of currency associated with the deposit sheet(s).
5. Coin: Enter the total amount of coin associated with the deposit sheet(s).
6. Total: If Bag, the Total should equal the total amount in the secure bank bag prepared by the department.  If not Bag, add all checks, currency and coin and enter the amount in Total. The Total in the shaded portion should be the same as the Total Deposit at the top of the sheet.

Refer questions pertaining to Credit Cards, MCodes, General Ledger Numbers and Sales Tax to x4302 or email.
Refer questions pertaining to Bagged Deposits, Cash Handling and Endorsement Stamps to x4083 or email.

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