Workday plans to release a new user interface for payroll costing allocations as part of the March 15 2025R1 update.
The changes will provide a new display for the "Proposed Costing Allocations" tab that enables users to perform the functions listed below.
Add, edit, remove, and sort ranges of costing allocations by start date or end date Copy costing allocations of a specified date range
The updates also include an "Existing Costing Allocations" tab where users can view the items listed below.
Existing costing allocations for the specified costing criteria An empty grid when a worker doesn’t have any costing allocations
The two tabs will be accessible from the user’s inbox whenever the Assign Costing Allocation task is used as a subprocess (for example, as part of the Create Position or Hire Process).
Workday is planning to add a new Salary Over the Cap (SOC) Default Costing Allocation Details grid with the new user interface for payroll costing allocations, as part of the March 15 2025R1 update.
This gives users a new option to specify SOC costing defaults instead of entering SOC costing overrides in the SOC "Bubble" for each individual costing allocation where SOC applies. The SOC costing overrides can still be used at the individual costing allocation level. A summary of these new levels of functionality is listed below.
The new SOC default costing allocation overrides the Default Org assignment. The SOC “Bubble” costing will override the SOC default costing allocation. If the bubble or the SOC default costing allocation are not used, the SOC will use the default Organization Assignment.
The new grid will display columns for each primary worktag and group any additional worktags into the Additional Worktags column.
During the week of Monday, January 27, a new interface was released for Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAAs) for retroactive payroll posted on a paycheck. Listed below is a high-level summary of the changes.
If there is a retro pay period associated with the earnings they are trying to move, PAA Specialists will need to select the correct retro period. Due to this change, the Retro Period Date will now associate the PAA with a pay period. The budget date will default to the budget date of the retro period. This update ties Effort and PAA's for retroactive time in a more efficient way and allows for cleaner effort reporting.
The help resources listed below are newly created or updated to assist with this change.
During the week of January 27 , a new interface will be released for Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAA) for retroactive payroll posted on a paycheck. Once this change is made, if there is a retro pay period associated with the earnings needing to be moved, PAA Specialists will now need to select the correct retro period.
Prior to this change, budget date was the main driver of associating payroll with the pay period for which the earnings were intended. Moving forward, the Retro Period Date will associate the PAA with a pay period. The budget date will default to the budget date of the retro period. See the full post for links to job aids, a Tips and Tricks page, and a new BuckeyeLearn module.
The Time Tracking Funding Overrides report has been updated so users can now search for worktag overrides for positions they own. This can be run each pay period to ensure biweekly workers have not erroneously entered worktag overrides on their timesheets. Payroll accounting adjustments should be processed to correct erroneous overrides.
Historically the report returned all workers with time entered but a new prompt titled "Only Include Time Blocks with Funding Overrides" will narrow results down to return only workers with worktag overrides.
As a reminder, the best option is to run the report by the "Organizations by Type" prompt to capture all the positions owned by your college or cost center.
Beginning Wednesday, November 20 , users will be required to enter the five required worktags (company, cost center, fund, balancing unit, function) for costing allocations and period activity pay. These worktags must be entered on each row of costing. If you have any questions regarding worktag entry, please reach out to your Cost Center Manager.
The Tableau report "Flexible Payroll Expense Data" has been enhanced with the addition of a new tab titled "Flexible Payroll Actuals- Annual Trend." In this tab users can compare payroll spend data by fiscal year.
Two Payroll Accounting reports have/will be updated based on some user feedback.
The "Payroll Accounting Adjustments Status" report has been updated as of October 17 . The "Created By" field has been replaced with the "Initiating Worker" and "Initiating Worker's Employee ID" fields so that this information is visible to all report end users. A column with approver information has also been added, titled "Approved by Workers."
Additionally, the "Payroll Funding - Period Activity Pay" report will be enhanced on October 23 with the changes detailed in the full post.
To address the Workday encumbrance issues associated with payroll commitments for biweekly pay period 14 (6/16-6/29), FY24 payroll commitments were closed out the week of Monday, July 8 and a new integration with a journal source of "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" was run to clear outstanding balances in FY24. Correcting entries for over liquidations in FY25 associated with PPD14 also have been posted. Reporting for personnel encumbrances should now be back on track and we will resume the regular encumbrance adjustments schedule starting July 15 . The Positions for Planning report has also been updated to reflect the new fiscal year 2025.
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.
