FN10 – Accounting System

Records maintained in the enterprise financial system.

Responsible Unit | Information Steward | Information Confidentiality Classification | Retention | Disposition | AuthorityVersion Information

Content & Scope

Unit4 is the financial system used by the University of Waterloo to centrally record financial transactions.

The records include the general ledger and sub-ledgers for purchasing and receiving, payables, receivables, cash management, and assets.

Responsible Unit

Finance.

Information Steward

Vice President, Administration & Finance.

Information Confidentiality Classification

Highly Restricted.

Retention

  • General ledger balances: Permanent, unless permission to destroy earlier is received from Canada Revenue Agency.
  • General ledger transaction detail: minimum of 10 years.
  • Sub-ledger records: minimum of 10 years.

Disposition

Secure Destruction.

Note

Responsible Units should document the disposal/destruction of official records using the University records destruction form or equivalent documentation, to verify that we are following our records retention rules.

Authority

Income Tax Act, 1985, s. 230(4); Income Tax Regulations, 5800 (1)(a)(4); Policies of various research funding bodies.

Retention Rationale

The Income Tax Regulations, 5800 (1) (a) (iv) states that the retention period for "the general ledger or other book of final entry containing the summaries of the year-to-year transactions of a corporation" is "the period ending on the day that is two years after the day that the corporation is dissolved"; the retention period for sub-ledgers and transaction detail allows access to the information for long enough in most cases to meet the requirements of granting agencies and other sponsors of research.

Approval Date

14 April 2010