Please note that the equity roll-forward of FY25 beginning equity balances will not occur until after second close, which is at 5 p.m. on the evening of Thursday, July 18. As a result, reporting will be affected until the equity roll-forward process is complete.
In an effort to improve travel data analytics, the Travel Office has coordinated updates with the FDM team (effective Monday, July 1) to separate expense items into distinct spend categories for enhanced reporting. Careful consideration should be made when selecting expense items or spend categories that can affect travel expense data and downstream reporting.
Cost Center Managers and Service Centers have a responsibility to ensure the appropriate spend category or expense item is used on all transactions. It is recommended to run “Spend Categories - FDM Values” for Travel spend category hierarchy to review the existing financial worktags. It is also recommended to run “View Expense Item” for Travel Expenses to review the existing expense items.
For questions, contact the Travel Office at travel@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.
Initial FY25 payroll commitments were run on Sunday, June 23 . Please be aware that FY24 payroll commitments will not zero out until a new integration with a journal source of "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" runs on Friday, July 12 . Correcting entries for any over liquidations will also post on July 12.
Due to this issue, we will be unable to run encumbrance adjustments for the period between June 24 and July 14. We apologize for this inconvenience and will resume the regular encumbrance adjustments schedule on Monday, July 15 . Reporting will affected until this date.
Enhancements have been made to the "Find Requisition Summary - OSU" and "Business Processes Awaiting Action - Requisition Detail" reports. New report fields that have been added to the output of each report are specific to requisitions with new supplier registrations. The new fields include those listed below.
Date First Email was Sent to Supplier Date Second Email was Sent to Supplier Date Application was Received from Supplier
Additionally, "Requisition Sourcing Buyer" has also been added to the output of the report "Business Processes Awaiting Action - Requisition Detail."
The Expense Office has launched a new webpage that provides guidance and resources for processing Non-Travel Reimbursements and Miscellaneous Payments including links to processing tools and job aids, reporting options, frequently asked questions, and news updates.
It’s the final countdown! Remaining buildings that still have osuwireless in place will say goodbye beginning July 14 through July 24. Check out the remaining schedule for osuwireless retirement in this news article. The change will occur at 10 p.m. on July 14, July 17, and July 21 and at 9:30 p.m. on July 24. All other university and Wexner Medical Center locations have already had osuwireless removed.
The project to improve Wi-Fi at Ohio State and move to eduroam and device-based authentication began in May 2022 . Since that time, Ohio State Wi-Fi users have been making the transition to eduroam and reaping the benefits. Once on eduroam, faculty, staff, and students no longer have to update their password to maintain their wireless connection.
Mark your calendars and join us for the new monthly Travel, PCard, and Expense Office Hours! Starting July 2024, the Travel, PCard, and Expense Office will be hosting office hours as a joint session. This is a great opportunity to stay connected to current news, updates, and ongoing processing support.
Travel, PCard, and Expense Office Hours are held on the second Tuesday of every month from 10 - 11:30 a.m. Participants will review current news and updates (system, policy, or supplier information), observe demos of Workday travel processes, and chat with the Travel, PCard, and Expense team to ask questions or get guidance for policy/system issues.
A new Supplier Invoice Business Process for Capital Expenses job aid (login required) has been published in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC) for University Company users. It provides instructions for how to determine if a supplier invoice will be capitalized and to what ledger account it will post.
A new statistics book code will go into production on Wednesday, July 3 . This has been created to separate statistical entries from the actuals ledger. Some examples include "OSU Health System statistics" and "OSP – research for third party cost share." Due to this change, users may notice this new statistics book code while selecting book code prompts on various financial reports. Please also be aware that due to the new book code, the Journal EIB template will be changing on Friday, July 12. This post will be will be updated with additional details.
The Foundation Data Model (FDM) Translation Tool, which was utilized to convert PeopleSoft chartfield values into Workday values, will be decommissioned after July 31, 2024 . A new report called PeopleSoft to Workday Conversion Details (authentication required) is now available to financial users in the Reporting and Analytics Environment (RAE). This report provides the same information as the translation tool with more accuracy regarding the full worktag combination that was used during conversion. Read the full post for more details and how to obtain help accessing the report.
