1. Fort Jackson Senior Leaders, Command Teams, and Financial Management Professionals.  The United States Army Financial Management School (FMS) is hosting its first Financial Management Senior Leader Lecture Series on Friday, 14 September 2018.  The guest speaker will be Mr. Andrew S. Morgan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Information Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller) Washington, DC.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/thread/203366   https://twitter.com/FMS29207)

 

2. The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASA (FM&C)), Comptroller Proponency Office is now accepting applications for the Defense Comptrollership Program (DCP) Cohort 2020 NLT 18 October 18.  The DCP is a long-term training (LTT) opportunity for Civilians and Military personnel from all services and career programs.  The DCP is open to grades GS-11-13. However, GS-14 personnel may apply.  Army Military selection priority is for Active and Active Guard Reserve (AGR) Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) in ranks senior Captain-Major, Sergeant First Class, Master Sergeant, and junior Sergeant Majors.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/thread/202312?sr=stream    https://www.facebook.com/groups/7945374196/)

 

3. Submit your application now for Training with Industry (TWI) Program, a work-experience program designed to provide extensive exposure to managerial techniques and industrial procedures within corporate America to competitively selected officers and non-commissioned officers.  Training received usually is not available either through the military school system or through a private university system.  Following the participants' tenure at the commercial company, they are placed in a validated utilization assignment for two years.  Participants also incur an active duty service obligation of three for one computed in days.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/thread/201942?sr=stream      https://www.facebook.com/groups/7945374196/)

 

 

1. FMNet highlights the Ultimate Training Environment System (UTES) Community of Interest (COI).  For all users who are not familiar with UTES or how to leverage this tool to conduct home station training, a blog posted within UTES COI provides an overview.  (https://www.milsuite.mil/book/community/spaces/afms/utes/blog/2017/11/27/utes-overview)  We encourage our users to leverage this superb tool; where Financial Managers (FM) military and civilian, can train on identical systems used in real-time to provide Operational Contract Support (OCS)/Procure-to-Pay Business Process at home station.  Users can train together in the same room or across the globe. 
Additionally, UTES provides several training resources for all Finical Warriors.  Recently added to the site are:
- GTA 07-71-001 Combat Skills for Small Unit Leaders
- GTA 63-01-001 Sustainment Unit Training Resource Guide
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/community/spaces/afms/utes    https://www.facebook.com/groups/7945374196/)

 

2. Update to the US Army Financial Management Command (USAFMCOM) training Guidance, for all wishing to attend the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (FRBB) E-Commerce Training event.  The training is for select personnel of FORSCOM deploying Financial Management Organizations.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/message/753730#753730     https://www.dvidshub.net/news/printable/135067)

 

 

1. The Planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution (PPBE) instructors here at the FMS are eager to start, course F01 beginning September 10, 2018.  Please review the Welcome letter and associated material on PPBE COI.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/community/spaces/afms/functional-courses/ppbe    http://www.finance.army.mil/CourseCatalog/FMSCourseCatalog.pdf)

 

2. (NEW) For all Financial Managers who may or may not be members of the American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC), please review the August edition newsletter, which discusses the changes in the upcoming Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) exam.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/thread/203548    http://www.asmconline.org/2018/08/asmc-newsletter-august-2018/)

 

3. (NEW) Read the latest US Army Financial Management Command (USAFMCOM) System Support Operations (SSO), Business Intelligence newsletter, which focuses on the over 35 thousand General Fund Enterprise Business Systems (GFEBS) users and related training.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/docs/DOC-510421    AKO at: https://www.ako1.us.army.mil/suite/doc/50829723)

 

4. (NEW) Review the latest Defense Travel System (DTS) guides shared on the GFEBS Cost Community of Interest (COI).
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/community/spaces/afms/functional-courses/gfebs-cost)

 

5. (NEW) The Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A) Team is actively seeking Army NCOs and Officers from the Active Component with any of the following skills for immediate assignment consideration within IPPS-A’s Functional Management Division:
 a. Visual Basic, JavaScript, SQL and other coding languages
 b. Recent Strength Management experience at the Div/Corps/ASCC level
 c. JSON, XML, HTML, and other markup/serialization formats
 d. Upper echelon awards experience
 e. Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and other database experience
 f. HRC experience
 g. Experience analyzing HRIMS data; knowledge of how to develop utilities and databases to increase the speed and accuracy of analysis efforts
 h. Skilled at using Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/thread/203656    https://www.facebook.com/groups/7945374196/)

 

6. (NEW) IPPS-A milBook site has shared a draft of Fragmentary Order (FRAGO) 4, which discuss data strategy.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/docs/DOC-427680)

 

7. (NEW) View the latest phone roster for The Financial Management Support Center (Theater).
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/docs/DOC-510528)

 

8. (NEW) Read the latest Sustainment Warfighters’ Newsletter, which highlights the latest accomplishments the Army Sustainment and Logistical professionals’ worldwide.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/docs/DOC-512535)

 

9. (NEW) Any Financial Manager (FM) looking for interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System (iPERMS) guide, Local Policy, and SOPs milBook site has uploaded this document and other relevant material.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/docs/DOC-510777)

 

10. (NEW) The Cash Accountability and Traceability (CASH) milBook site has just posted the End-To-End (E2E) rollout-testing schedule for all corresponding agencies.
(https://www.milsuite.mil/book/docs/DOC-511149)

 

 

1. MILPER messages available on the HRC MILPER web page at
(https://www.hrc.army.mil/Milper)

 

2. ALARACTs on AKO at
(https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/550282.)

 

3. Army Directives are on the Army Publishing Directorate at
(http://www.apd.army.mil/Search/ePubsSearch/ePubsSearchForm.aspx?x=ARMY+DIR)  

 

4. DFAS MilPay Accounting Analysis Directorate Year End Processes
(https://dfas4dod.dfas.mil/centers/dfasin/yearend/)

 

5. DFAS For DOD Library
(https://dfas4dod.dfas.mil/library/)

 

 

Join the FMNet by visiting milSuite and signing in with your CAC (signing in establishes your milSuite account if you did not have one).  After signing in select milBook and navigate to the Army Financial Management School Community page (FMNet), look for the “Join” widget on the left and click it.  Approval is automatic.
https://www.milsuite.mil/book/community/spaces/afms    

 

FMtube: Visit the FMtube for video job aids https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrFUP9pi9QR6d4mDZ4-cW8Q    

 

One Stop: Visit us at the Home of the Army Financial Management School on the One Stop http://www.finance.army.mil/

 

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This post identifies our total membership count for the FMNet (Army FM School Community of Interest) with 5,283 members as of September 7th compared to 5,271 as of the August update.