Purchase Card - Logs & Reconciliation

Course Number
NIHTC2635
Description

PLEASE NOTE THIS COURSE IS ONLY OFFERED AS A CLOSED ENROLLMENT.
This one-day non-mandatory course is for current, experienced Purchase Cardholders and Card Approving Officials (CAOs) that have completed the NIH Purchase Card training (Course# NIHTC9512), have been provisioned as P-Card Users (Cardholder) and/or P-Card Approvers (CAO) and are functioning under their role in NBS. It is a refresher class, focusing on NBS functionality, not P-Card responsibilities or ordering procedure. It discusses practice exercises, including the creation of Purchase Card Log Entries and Reconciliation procedures through the NBS.
The course will not address purchase card orders over the micro-purchase threshold that are sent to PRISM for award. Additional information on this process and P-Card to PRISM can be found on the NBS Acquisition Portal under P-Card to PRISM Phase I.

IMPORTANT:This course does not replace the annual LMS Purchase Card Refresher training.

Key Topics
  • Create Log Entries in NBS manually
  • Match a vendor’s Bank Transaction to a Log Entry
  • Change Log Entry field information through Purchase Card Reconciliation.
  • Dispute a vendor’s Bank Transaction
  • Reconcile Bank Transactions and prepare Purchase Card monthly file requirements
  • Review Card Approver Reconciliation Responsibilities.

Audience:

The NIH Acquisitions Community. Attendees to Purchase Card – Logs and Reconciliation must be current Cardholders or CAOs functioning under their role and provisioned in NBS with current NBS purchase card experience in creating log entries and performing reconciliation procedures.