Microsoft has been making updates to several of its tools, and a new version of Outlook is on the horizon. As part of this update to Outlook, Microsoft will no longer be supporting the Zoom plug-in—instead, you will be able to use the Zoom add-in for Outlook.
Beginning on Friday, May 24 , delegation will be enabled on several Workday business processes. Prior to this change, delegation was only enabled on time tracking and financial business processes. These changes will make the functionality available to human resources business processes.
If you have a step in the process, you will be able to use the "Request Delegation" task to temporarily delegate your work to an appropriate individual because you will be out of the office or otherwise unavailable to complete or approve transactions in Workday. Delegation will be available for the business processes listed below. See the full post for a delegation job aid link as well as more details about the benefits of this expanded functionality.
Add Additional Job Assign Costing Allocation (Cost Center Manager was added with the position control project) Change Job Change Organization Assignments for Worker Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments Edit Position Edit Position Restrictions Job Requisition Offer Period Activity Pay Request Compensation Change Request One-Time Payment
Effective May 24, 2024 , a revised interim Earnings Operations policy will be issued. Changes were made to advance compliance with current Office of Management and Budget Uniform Guidance, the authoritative set of rules and requirements for federal awards management, and thereby reduce the risk of waste and misuse of federal funds. These changes are listed below.
Refreshing the definitions of the different types of earnings operations. Requiring earnings operations to use the proper accounting processes. Requiring earnings operations to post their fees publicly. Providing guidance around the tracking and recording of capital assets. Requiring ERIK approval of any earnings operation that plans to charge federal grants.
To compliment the changes in the policy, a training on Earnings Operations is available in BuckeyeLearn.
Below are details about reporting changes as of May 20. See the full post for specific details about the changes.
Supplier Invoice Reports Updated to replace Deprecated Field: Several reports have been updated to remove deprecated field Supplier Category and replace it with an alternate field Supplier Category for Supplier. End users with saved filters will be impacted but a targeted email went out to this population on Monday, May 13.
Coming Soon: UNIV Remaining Encumbrances - Requisitions, POs, Spend Authorizations: A new report will soon be released to help end users identify transactions and their encumbrances that will roll forward add the end of the fiscal year. The new report is called "UNIV Remaining Encumbrances - Requisitions, POs, Spend Authorizations."
Project Sources and Uses Updates : The Report Project Sources and Uses has been updated and enhanced. Users with saved filters may need to use the "Manage My Saved Filters" task to update their filter to the new Time Period to prevent it from being overridden when using a saved filter.
As a part of fiscal year-end activities, subaward supplier contract encumbrances will be closed out for FY24 and re-opened in FY25.
An encumbrance will not roll-forward into FY25 if a subaward supplier contract has an "Amendment in Process" status. This issue was confirmed in testing. As a result, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is providing guidance for subaward supplier contract amendments as detailed in the full post .
The 16-digit number found on BuckID cards has been reclassified from S3 to S4 institutional data. This means that it is now considered restricted data and requires stricter safeguards due to its various applications, including functionality as a debit card number, potentially increasing the risk of identity theft and financial loss if compromised.
Note that this change does not apply to the staff or student nine-digit ID number, which is also printed on BuckID cards. This number remains at an S2 classification level.
This is a reminder that the purchase and management of cellular services is the responsibility of the individual business units. Units should perform a full review of all cellular services provided, including hot spots, internet services, and cellular/data services for their units to ensure that these services meet the requirements as outlined in the Expenditure Policy , and have appropriate business purposes documented in each transaction and a determination of a taxable impact.
If the service does not meet the criteria outlined in the policy, the unit will need to submit a policy exception request through the B&F policy exception process . In addition, the Office of the President will need to approve any Senior Vice President requests and the Office of the Provost will need to approve any Dean requests.
Once the list of the individual receiving the service with the needed business purpose is compiled, it must be reviewed with the Payroll Tax Office to determine any taxable impact. Read the full post for more details.
Please refer to the downloadble Unit Year-end Checklist for important year end dates, timeline information and tasks that need to be performed. Procurement and expenses close will occur at Noon on Friday, June 28 . Similar to last year, to avoid potential accounting issues, we are asking that no transaction approvals, changes, or cancellations occur after that time until the roll forward is complete the following day. This includes Requisitions, POs, Change Orders, Supplier Invoices (for both Internal and External Suppliers), Miscellaneous Payments and Expense Reports . We highly recommend having FY24 procurement and expense transactions fully approved by the end of the day on June 27 .
Beginning with FY25, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreements which lock internal fees for a set period must be adjusted for any annual changes in rates over the life of the MOU. To be compliant with federal Uniform Guidance regulations for specialized service facilities ( 2 CFR 200.468 ) which applies to all internal service providers, federal grants must be charged the lowest rate based on the FP&A approved internal rate that is published and in effect for that fiscal year.
Earnings operations billing federal grants that have existing MOU agreements in place can honor them through the end of next fiscal year, ending June 30, 2025. MOU and Statement of Work (SOW) arrangements are still acceptable for industry sponsored research. The Grants Shared Service Center will still be executing MOUs with FDC to cover construction projects.
The Earnings Operations course is an introductory module into Earnings Operations for fiscal staff, managers, and Senior Fiscal Officers (SFOs). The module includes information on defining an Earnings Operation, the roles and responsibilities, establishing a rate and cost recovery, the monitoring requirements, and closing an Earnings Operation. Completion requires passing the assessment with an 85% or higher. This course is required for those that have fiscal responsibilities for earnings units.
