The "Find Transaction Summary Reports" report group has been created to help end users run multiple reports with a single set of prompts. This report group will render results for the summary report groups in the following areas: Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Report, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoices, Supplier Invoice Requests, and Purchase Orders. The output of all these reports is compiled and downloaded into one Excel file for end user convenience. Pivot tables have been added on a tab in the Excel output summarizing the report statuses.
The changes described are scheduled to be moved to production during the week of Monday, October 7 . Based on user feedback, the "Sources and Uses – Variance Analysis" report was updated to provide a streamlined solution for viewing Actuals and Encumbrance columns side by side. Encumbrance and Pre-Encumbrance columns have been added alongside the existing Actuals and Plan columns. This will allow users to compare actuals and outstanding encumbrances to plan estimates in a seamless way. Additionally, new dynamic column headings were added to the report to provide greater clarity to the selections made at report runtime that drive the values in the Plan and Forecast columns.
A summary of these changes is listed in the full post. Questions or concerns with these updates can be sent to ctl-businessprocesses@osu.edu .
The Controller's Office recommends that units do a periodic review for worktags that are no longer being used and submit inactivation requests through an FDM Request in Workday. Prior to submitting worktag inactivation requests, please ensure that the Inactivation Checklist has been completed and the balances are clear.
Note that the checklist was recently updated to differentiate reports that should be run for FOD projects beginning with PJOSU. Contact CTL-FDMRequests@osu.edu with any questions.
Below are details about recent and upcoming report changes.
Find Journals – OSU
The "Find Journals – OSU" report has been enhanced with two additional fields in the output of the report. The field names are "Cost Center" and "Worktags."
Report Retirement Reminder
The reports "Find Accounting Adjustments" and "Find Accounting Adjustment Lines for Organizations" will be retired on Friday, September 27 . The recommended replacement for these reports is "Accounting Adjustment Status - OSU."
Below are details about recent and upcoming report changes.
"Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU" Report
The "Find Supplier Invoice Summary – OSU" report has been enhanced with two additional fields in the output of the report. The field names are "Invoice Reference ID" and "Supplier Reference ID."
Coming Soon: "Accounting Adjustment Status - OSU"
A new report will soon be released to combine the existing reports "Find Accounting Adjustments" and "Find Accounting Adjustment Lines for Organization" into a single report titled "Accounting Adjustment Status - OSU." The new report will include output from both of the existing reports as well additional columns to help end users identify where in the business process the transaction is awaiting action.
With the release of the new report, the old reports will be retired effective Friday, September 27 . If you have saved filters on these reports, please be sure to save those fields on the new report.
The "Positions for Planning" report will be updated the evening of Monday, August 12 . In order to pull in the new "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" journal source data successfully, the “region” filter and column was removed from the report. This integration was created for FY24 year-end to fix the encumbrances for the last biweekly payroll of the year. Please note, the "Pay Component" and "Pay Group" fields will be blank for the "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" journal source rows. Also, you can exclude biweekly pay period 14 (pay period ending 6/28/25 with a pay date of 7/11/25) from the report by using the Commitment Start/End Date prompts.
Please remember to take prompt action on in-progress or created journals before business day 5 of month-end close. This will help limit the high volume of transactions that the Controller's Office needs to move and/or cancel to close the period. Workday notifications issue a reminder to take action on journals on business day 4, and reminder emails are sent to the Cost Center Manager distribution list on day 5 as an additional reminder. The FY25 period close calendar can be found on the Controller's website for download .
There is a Workday case open due to reported issues where journal EIBs are stuck in a queued status for a few hours before being created. If you notice that you are affected by this issue, please do not resubmit the EIB, as it will slow things down further and duplicate journals will be created that need to be cancelled. When this occurs, please be patient, the queued EIB journals eventually get created after a few hours and you will be able to submit them at that time.
To view the status of journal EIBs, navigate to your Workday inbox and click "Archive." The status of the journal EIB will show as "in progress" when it is processing, and "successfully completed" once the journal is created. Once created, you will be able to view the journal and submit it for approval.
Below are details about reporting changes in production as of July 29. See the full post where indicated for more specifics.
Business Assets Reporting:
The "OSU - Find Assets" report now features a new Asset Description prompt. This text field allows users to enter a description, returning assets that begin with the specified value. This enhancement streamlines the search process, ensuring more accurate and relevant asset retrieval.
Find FDM Requests Report and Security Enhancements:
The "Find FDM Requests" report has recently been enhanced to include a prompt for the Initiator's CCH6 as of the "Date Initiated" value. On the output of the report, the column "Initiator's Unit" has been replaced with the "Initiator's CCH6 as of Date Initiated." This change was made to help capture the correct CCH6 for which the request was entered even if the initiator no longer works in that unit.
Additionally, the security groups permitted access to run this report have been expanded to include the roles as listed in the full post . Please note, in order to see the request on the output of the report, users will need to have one of the security roles listed in the full post for the organization of the initiator. For example, if the initiator's organization is the company The Ohio State University, someone with the Cost Center Accountant role for that company will be able to view the request. However, someone with that same role but for the organization OSU Health System would not be able to view that request.
Blank book code (activity for decentral journals) will be closing at 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 18 . Please remember to take timely action on journals. As this is second close for fiscal year 2024, any journals or transfers in "Created" and "In Progress" status after 4 p.m. on July 18 will be cancelled.
