Tagged: Finance

For all post‑acquisition business asset lifecycle events (Transfer Asset, Dispose Asset, Maintain Asset Shares), a new Depreciation Adjustment Option prompt has been introduced. This option is not used by OSU. The prompt will be visible to end users and cannot be hidden. The Depreciation Convention will default on transactions and should not be changed by Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialists.

A new dashboard has been developed to give users a quick, easy‑to‑understand view of key financials and a simple summary of operational transactions. This tool is designed specifically for budget managers who do not regularly use financial reports, with the goal of making financial information clearer, faster to review, and more intuitive. We are seeking up to 15 participants, particularly budget managers with limited financial reporting experience, to help test the dashboard and provide feedback. See the full post for participation details.

The "Sources and Uses – Annual Trending" report has been updated to include five years of data, expanded from the previous three. This enhancement provides users with greater visibility into longer‑term trends.

A new training curriculum is now available to help users better understand and use the reports within the Earnings Operations Reconciliation Dashboard. These modules provide step‑by‑step guidance to support your monthly earnings reconciliation activities.

A new report group is now available to help users track manually entered journal lines, accounting adjustment lines, and payroll accounting adjustments that have been approved. The report group, titled "Completed Financial Transactions Report Group," can be accessed through the "Schedule a Report" task. See the full post for details about prompts, report output, and more.

Two new prompts have been added to the "Payroll Accounting Adjustment Status" report. The first is a prompt for the "Security Group Awaiting Action." This will allow users to isolate in-progress adjustments based on which group is pending approval. The second prompt will be a checkbox-style prompt called "Include Questionnaire Data" which is described in the full post. With these additions, the “Payroll Accounting Adjustments with Questionnaire Answers” report will be retired on Friday, February 20.

Currently, the "Initiated By" prompt in requisition reporting returns records where the entered name appears as the "Requisition Requestor." Beginning Friday, February 13, this will change. The "Initiated By" prompt will instead return requisitions where the entered name is listed as "Created By" rather than the Requisition Requestor.

New columns have been added to the "Payroll Funding – Costing Allocation for Filled Positions" report to provide greater transparency into how costing is calculated for each worker and costing line. Details about the columns are listed in the full post. Help text has also been added to the report to explain how this calculation works for both hourly and salaried workers.

A suite of eight new reports specific to earnings operations are now live. BuckeyeLearn courses showing a demo of each new report are also available. See the full NewsLink post for a full list of reports and descriptions.

The newly released "Find Assets Details – OSU" report provides detailed asset information. It includes the same data as the "Find Assets Summary – OSU" report (formerly named "OSU – Find Assets") with an additional feature described in the full post.