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  • Ohio Sales Tax Holiday Effective August 1 - 14

    The Ohio Department of Taxation has announced there will be an Ohio Sales Tax Holiday in effect from 12 a.m. Friday, August 1 until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, August 14, 2025. During the holiday, the exemption will apply to all sales of goods that are $500 or less except for certain watercraft, motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, vapor products, or items containing marijuana. See the full post...
  • “Report Phishing” button becomes “Report Suspicious” in July

    For several years, you have been using the Report Phishing button in Outlook, Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access (OWA). Beginning on July 14, the button will change to “Report Suspicious.” The new name reflects the usefulness of the button for more than phishing. Not all suspicious messages are technically phishing. “Report Suspicious” invites you to flag anything that seems off.
  • Cost of Sales Worktag Validations on Supplier Invoices

    During the week of June 23, Workday validations were added to the supplier invoice business process to ensure that the cost of sales expenditure treatment worktag can only be utilized by approved university earnings operations (Funds FD120, FD121, FD122 and FD200). As a reminder, use of the ET101 expenditure treatment drives the transaction accounting to the cost of sales ledger account (61020)...
  • Supplier Invoice Reporting Updates

    A column on the output of the reports "Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU" and "Find Supplier Invoice Details - OSU" has been removed due to performance issues. The report field removed was "All Invoices Paid to Supplier on Settlement Run." End users can instead run the report "Supplier Payments" to obtain a list of invoices paid to a supplier during a particular settlement run.
  • Bad Debt Expense Account Posting Rule Update

    Effective Friday, June 6 at 4 p.m., all accounts receivable write-offs will post to ledger account 65770: Bad Debt Expense. Historically they had been posting to 13200: Allowance for Uncollectables. The Controller’s Office is in the process of identifying write-off debit balances in the 13200-ledger account and plans to correct this via a central journal. Spend Category SC10660: Bad Debt Expense...

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