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The Workday report "OSU Plan vs Actuals by Cost Center" will be decommissioned on October 9.

Individuals should utilize the report "Plan vs Actuals by Plan Worktag" as the alternative.  If you have saved filters for "OSU Plan vs Actuals by Cost Center" they should be moved to the replacement report prior to October 9. 

To support training related to upcoming changes in the internal order billing process, the Workday training tenant refresh schedule has been updated. Rather than the usual weekly refresh to update the tenant with a new copy of the live Workday environment, training tenant refreshes have or will occur on:

A new Aggregate tab default view is now available. The new view:

The "Find Spend Authorization Summary - OSU" report has been enhanced with a new additional field in the report output. New field name is “In Progress Linked Expense Reports.” 

New tips and tricks information on the Miscellaneous Payment process has been added to the Business and Finance website to provide users with an overview of the business process and links to additional resources.

National Payroll Week 2023 begins on Monday, September 4!

Since our organization supports many systems and processes that enable university faculty and staff to be paid, National Payroll Week is important to us all!

In 1996, the American Payroll Association founded National Payroll Week to coincide with the celebration of Labor Day.

As of Friday, September 1, the "Managerial Trial Balance" report behavior will change when viewing equity balances.

The "Flexible Payroll Expense Data" report allows users to customize worktags to display when reviewing payroll expenses. As of Monday, August 21, the Tableau report interface for the custom worktag selection will be enhanced to improve the end user experience. Instead of users selecting the "select column" icon from the top right of the report, now all column selections will appear above the column’s headings and will remain displayed.

As of Monday, August 21, a new series of reports will be available that offer insight into the amount of time transactions spent in pending approval steps during workflow. These transaction types include Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoice Requests, Supplier Invoices, and Purchase Order Change Orders.     

The downloadable FDM worktag reference guide has been updated to include information on “Driver” and “Related” worktags and how they function. It is highly recommended for related worktags to only be used if that is going to be the associated worktag value 100% of the time.