Tagged: Financial Accounting

Effective 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.

The 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 – FDM Values" report.

Spend category hierarchies (level 5) will be updated to create logical groupings of expenses. These groupings will help provide a level of visibility that is inbetween the high-level Supplies and Services view, and the granular spend category level. Below are a few examples of logical expense groupings the changes will create.

• Computer, Audiovisual, and Copying Services
• Maintenance and Repair Services
• Financial, Accounting, and Legal Services
• HVAC, Electrical and Electronic Components

A new report group, Financial Transactions Awaiting Action, has been released. This report includes three different reports that provide a list and the status of journal, accounting adjustment, and asset transactions that are awaiting an approval or to-do step. To run this report group, users can go to the "Schedule a Report" task and search for "Financial Transactions Awaiting Action." Once the prompts are entered and the report group runs, all reports will be available in one Excel spreadsheet. 

As of Friday, December 6, Workday validations will be placed in various spend business processes to ensure the cost of sales expenditure treatment worktag can only be utilized by approved university earnings operations (Funds FD120, FD121, FD122 and FD200). In addition, users will no longer be able to add ET101 to costing allocations, one-time payments, or period activity pay. 

As a reminder, use of the ET101 expenditure treatment drives the transaction accounting to the cost of sales ledger account (61020).

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 Controller's Office recommends that units do a periodic review for worktags that are no longer being used and submit inactivation requests through an FDM Request in Workday. Prior to submitting worktag inactivation requests, please ensure that the Inactivation Checklist has been completed and the balances are clear.

Please remember to take prompt action on in-progress or created journals before business day 5 of month-end close. This will help limit the high volume of transactions that the Controller's Office needs to move and/or cancel to close the period. Workday notifications issue a reminder to take action on journals on business day 4, and reminder emails are sent to the Cost Center Manager distribution list on day 5 as an additional reminder.

There is a Workday case open due to reported issues where journal EIBs are stuck in a queued status for a few hours before being created. If you notice that you are affected by this issue, please do not resubmit the EIB, as it will slow things down further and duplicate journals will be created that need to be cancelled. When this occurs, please be patient, the queued EIB journals eventually get created after a few hours and you will be able to submit them at that time.