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 will now map directly to 65770. Historical corrections will be posted by the second June close.
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Bad Debt Expense Account Posting Rule Update
Cristina Cardenas|June 27, 2025FY26 Equity Roll-forward Timing
Cristina Cardenas|June 13, 2025Please note that the equity roll-forward of FY26 beginning equity balances will not occur until after second close, which is at 5 p.m. on the evening of July 18, 2025. As a result, reporting will be affected until the equity roll-forward process is complete.Payroll Commitments
Cristina Cardenas|June 13, 2025Initial FY26 payroll commitments are scheduled to be run on June 21, 2025. Please be aware that due to system limitations, FY25 payroll commitments will not zero out until an integration with a journal source of "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" runs (tentatively scheduled for July 7, 2025). Correcting entries for any over liquidations will also post on July 7, 2025. See full post for more details.FY26 Period Close and Department Fiscal Payroll Processing Calendar
Cristina Cardenas|May 30, 2025The detailed FY26 period close and department fiscal payroll processing calendar has been published and is now available on the Controller's website. Link in full post.New Accounting Journal Validation Rules
Cristina Cardenas|May 2, 2025New custom validations have been implemented for accounting journals for The Ohio State University ONLY. The following journal sources are excluded: Central Correction No ACP, Conversion, Supplier Discount, and Capital Expense Reclass. See the full post for a list of validation rules.Policy Updates: Deposit of Funds Policy and Petty Cash Funds, Change Funds and Cash Advance Payments Policy
Cristina Cardenas|April 4, 2025Effective April 1, 2025, the Deposit of Funds policy and Petty Cash Funds, Change Funds, and Cash Advance Payments policy (formerly named the Cash and Cash Alternatives Payment Methods policy) have been revised by the Office of Business and Finance. These polices provide updated guidance on how units should manage their cash activity. Review the full post for details.Sources and Uses by Cost Center - Field Update
Cristina Cardenas|March 21, 2025Sources and Uses by Cost Center will be updated the week of Monday, March 24. Pre-encumbrance activity will be added to the Encumbrance column so both are captured within the same column. The column name will change from Encumbrance to Pre-Encumbrance/Encumbrance.Enhancement to "Payroll Accounting Adjustment Status" Report
Richard Hunter|February 21, 2025Effective the week of Monday, February 24, the "Payroll Accounting Adjustment Status" report will have some enhancements made to its prompt functionality. First, this report will include "Initiated By" as a prompt. Secondly, the prompt functionality for Current Expense Worktags and Proposed Expense Worktags will change to look at what is entered in either prompt.
Below is a brief example using two PAAs.
Enhancement to "Accounting Adjustment Status - OSU" Report
Richard Hunter|February 21, 2025Effective the week of Monday, February 24, a prompt for "Prior Worktags" will be added to the "Accounting Adjustment Status - OSU" report. This particular prompt will use the "or" logic so that if a value is entered in another prompt, such as Proposed Organization, the results will return adjustments that have the proposed organization OR the prior worktags entered in the prompt. This is similar to the change being implemented for Current Expense Worktags and Proposed Expense Worktags on the Payroll Accounting Adjustment Status report.
Reporting Update - Spend Category Hierarchy Grouping Rollup
Richard Hunter|February 21, 2025The reports listed below will be updated during the week of Monday, February 24 to enhance user ability to analyze expenses. Current state, these reports have the ability to expand directly from the ledger account value into all Spend Category detail lines. This update will group the Spend Categories into groupings determined in the All Spend Categories hierarchy. Reports will populate level 5 of this hierarchy with the ability to further expand to detail line items if needed. The hierarchy groupings can be viewed in the “Spend Categories â FDM Values" report.