Tagged: Finance

The Cost of Sales Spend Category (SC10258) will be inactivated for future use, as it does not meet the definition of spend category. ET101 plus the appropriate earnings fund value and an eligible spend category within the services, supplies, or fuel and fuel additives hierarchies should be used to designate cost of sales.

The "Financial Balances Summarization with flexible selectable columns" Tableau report has been enhanced with an additional tab for "Flexible columns Financial Balances Summary Yearly Trending."

The updates listed below have been made to PI Portal and Workday Grants Reporting to ensure data is accurate and in-sync. Questions about the changes can be directed to orhelpdesk@osu.edu.

To facilitate ad-hoc financial reporting in Tableau, a new Tableau Data Source which contains Adaptive Operating plan lines data for UNIV from Workday has been created in the RAE. The data source has loaded the items listed below.

• FY23 Autumn Forecast - UNIV
• FY23 Operating Plan - UNIV
• FY23 Spring Forecast - UNIV
• FY24 Autumn Forecast - UNIV
• FY24 Operating plan - UNIV
• FY24 Spring Forecast - UNIV
• FY24 Summer Forecast - UNIV
• FY25 Operating plan - UNIV
• FY25 Summer Forecast - UNIV

The "Plan Versus Actuals by Plan Worktag" and "Plan versus Actuals by Plan Worktag - With Ledger Account" reports have been enhanced with new dynamic column headings to provide greater clarity to the selections made at report runtime. Now instead of simply displaying "Plan," the column heading will display the Plan/Forecast Name that was selected at report runtime.

Please send questions about these updates to ctl-businessprocesses@osu.edu

The "Find Purchase Order Details - OSU" reports has been updated to include two new fields for line level status details named "Purchase Order Line Status" and "Line is Cancelled" which provides insight to the statuses of specific Purchase Order Lines.

The "Find Purchase Order Summary - OSU" report has been updated to include the Purchase Order Reference ID Field. This field is can be used by Internal Service Providers to populate their EIB templates when processing credits on fully invoiced Purchase Order Lines.

During the months of November and December, the Procurement and Supply Chain reports listed below will be enhanced to add a new prompt for "Projects." This prompt will provide additional search options on projects and is intended for areas managing large projects with multiple phases in Workday. 

The list below indicates the reports being updated, as well as the date each report is expected to be updated.

A new report named "Business Processes Awaiting Action - Asset Detail" has been released to aid in locating where asset events are in workflow. This report displays one row per event awaiting action and will provide basic information about the asset as well as days awaiting action and days since assignment.

With the release of this new report, the older "Transactions in Progress - Asset Registrations and Transfers" report will be retired on Friday, November 15.

The Office of Business and Finance welcomes your feedback on revisions to the Deposit of Funds policy and Petty Cash Funds, Change Funds, and Cash Advance Payments policy (currently named the Cash and Cash Alternatives Payment Methods policy). These policies are open for university-wide feedback through October 27 on the University Policies website. Visit the “Policies Under Review” tab to view an overview of the policy changes and the proposed revised policies. 

On Thursday October 24, the Tableau report "Delegation History - OSU" will be enhanced with the fields listed below.

• Delegating Worker Employee ID
• Delegate Employee ID
• Delegate Cost Center
• Initiator (of the delegation)
• Date and Time Initiated  ("Null" will show up in the report for the delegation entered prior to the Oct. 24 enhancement.)
• Date and Time Completed ("Null" will show up in the report for the delegation entered prior to the Oct. 24 enhancement.)