To ensure the appropriate accounting for projects, it is important that considerations made to determine if project is Capital or not. To aid departments and units in making these determinations a detailed guidance document has been added to the B&F website.
For Capitalizable Building Improvements to qualify for capitalization, project expenditures must exceed $100,000 (excluding moveable equipment, which is capitalized separately) and represent significant alterations, renovations, or structural changes that increase the usefulness of the building, enhance its efficiency, or extend its original useful life. See the full post for more details, including what capitalized building projects entail.
To clarify the usage of the two project request sheets within the Project Intake and Capital Planning instance of Adaptive Planning, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) will be completing the system enhancements described in this post, effective Thursday, February 15 . See the full post for more details about the renamed sheets.
In addition to the system enhancements mentioned in the " Adaptive Planning – Project Intake and Capital Planning " post, updates to the review process for projects managed in e-Builder that are requested on the All Other Projects sheet will also go into effect on Thursday, February 15 . There are no process changes to project requests on this sheet that do not need to go through e-Builder. See the full post for details about projects managed in e-Builder.
Buckeye Buy internal supplier catalogs now have a Preferred tag assigned to them in Workday. To limit your search to internal supplier catalogs, enter an item description and check the Preferred box in the Item Tags section in the left pane.
See the full post for a screenshot visual example and check out the Buckeye Buy User Guides page for the complete list of internal supplier catalogs in Buckeye Buy.
Currently, Purchase Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Non-PO Invoices, and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations are reported on the weekly grant transaction confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) for their relevant Grants. Additionally, Misc. Payment Requests will start to be included on this report during the month of February. This is the final update and will ensure that our PIs can review all non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting.
The University Travel Office is offering Information Sessions to provide guidance and resources to assist with planning and arranging business travel.
International Travel information session, Tuesday, February 27 - (10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) - Check out the full Business and Finance Travel article for more details and links for joining the session. Combining Business with Personal Travel information session, Tuesday, March 5 - (10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) - following normal Travel Office Hours discussions. Check out the full Business and Finance Travel article for more details and link for joining this session.
More Information Sessions to be announced.
For questions, contact the Travel Office at travel@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.
The BuckeyeLearn team is excited to share a new feature designed with the learner in mind – the ability to submit reviews for the courses a learner has successfully completed. Every learner’s journey is unique, and now they can share their insights to help others on their own educational path through the use of new “Course Rating and Reviews” functionality. Check out the full post to learn more.
As OTDI announced in December , anyone forwarding an Ohio State or BuckeyeMail account to another email can expect forwarded messages to possibly be blocked by new security measures designed to block spam. Specifically, changes announced by Google beginning in February 2024 may impact delivery to Gmail.
The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) and the Office of Secure Research (OSR) are implementing a new tool for encrypted research emails. All future encrypted emails will go through Virtru and we will be eventually retiring all R accounts. We will be communicating future dates...
