Tagged: Finance

Currently, Purchase Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Non-PO Invoices, and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations are reported on the weekly grant transaction confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) for their relevant Grants. Additionally, Misc. Payment Requests will start to be included on this report during the month of February. This is the final update and will ensure that our PIs can review all non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting. 

A new series of reports has been released to help end users identify transactions that are still in draft status or have been submitted, but are pending approval steps. These reports also offer metrics to show the amount of time the transaction has been pending an approval step as well as length of time spent in progress. The business processes included in the new reports are Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoice Requests, Supplier Invoices and PO Change Orders.

A new report is now available for end users to view journal line detail on income statement reporting.  The report "Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" can be used to find the journal line details behind the data columns in reporting such as Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags and Sources and Uses

The Tableau "Financial Balances Summarization" report has been updated on "Project" field. Now, project and project phase code amount will be added in "Project" field.  

Starting the week of January 29, the “Find Supplier Invoice Details – OSU” report will be enhanced with a new "Line Memo" field in the output of the report. The line memo field includes details associated with a purchase for the line. Some internal billing teams are leveraging this field to provide additional clarity in the invoicing for their customers (e.g. tag number, date order was placed, order number, etc.) to verify the customer is billed for the correct record.   

The university check run during the December holiday week will remain as normal. The check run will be on Thursday, December 28 with pick-up between 1:00 p.m and 4:00 p.m. Please ensure appropriate approvals are in place for expected checks.

Customer deposit transactions created and submitted on or after Friday, December 1 will have a transaction ID generated called "Customer Deposit ID." The Customer Deposit ID will be like other transaction IDs within Workday and will uniquely identify the deposit. The Customer Deposit ID will be preceded by "CD" and it will be followed by 8 numeric digits. The new Customer Deposit ID will be displayed on various deposit-related reports. Multiple cash sales can continue to be tied to a single customer deposit transaction.

Currently, purchase requisitions and spend authorizations are reported on the weekly confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) on their relevant Grants. Additionally, non-PO Invoices and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations will start to be included during the month of October. This is to ensure that our PIs can review additional non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting. 

Customer Deposit functionality has been updated to enable users to add attachments for supporting documentation. Customer Deposits now has a new tab to include attachments when creating, editing, or revising the deposit. Anyone who has access to create and/or edit Customer Deposits will also have access to add/change attachments on Customer Deposit transactions.

Earnings units subject to sales tax must ensure a cost center journal is recorded monthly for sales tax payable to Debit 42000 Revenue and Credit 20500 accrued sales tax. This has been added to the Monthly Unit Reconciliation Checklist.

Please enter the journal ID on the sales tax form and submit your sales tax information monthly to salestax@osu.edu.