Tagged: Financial Accounting

Blank book code (activity for decentral journals) will be closing at 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 18. Please remember to take timely action on journals. As this is second close for fiscal year 2024, any journals or transfers in "Created" and "In Progress" status after 4 p.m. on July 18 will be cancelled.

As of July 18, an updated Workday notification has been created following the approval of a Subaward Supplier Contract or Subaward Supplier Contract Amendment. A notification of fully approved subaward supplier contract or supplier contract amendment goes to all the prior approvers in the workflow and the initiator. This creates consistency with other spend transactions.

A new spend category has been created for warranties (SC11019). Previously, users were selecting the insurance services spend category for warranty transactions, which were routing for special category approval with Risk Management. Warranties do not require special category approval from Risk; therefore, this new spend category should be utilized for these transactions. 

The template to upload journal entries via Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) is changing. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 12, you will need to use the new template. The current template will not work after 5 p.m. on July 12. The current information found at the Upload Journal Entries (EIB) in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC) will be updated at the time.

Please note that the equity roll-forward of FY25 beginning equity balances will not occur until after second close, which is at 5 p.m. on the evening of Thursday, July 18.  As a result, reporting will be affected until the equity roll-forward process is complete.   

In an effort to improve travel data analytics, the Travel Office has coordinated updates with the FDM team (effective Monday, July 1) to separate expense items into distinct spend categories for enhanced reporting. Careful consideration should be made when selecting expense items or spend categories that can affect travel expense data and downstream reporting.

A new statistics book code will go into production on Wednesday, July 3. This has been created to separate statistical entries from the actuals ledger. Some examples include "OSU Health System statistics" and "OSP – research for third party cost share." Due to this change, users may notice this new statistics book code while selecting book code prompts on various financial reports. Please also be aware that due to the new book code, the Journal EIB template will be changing on Friday, July 12. This post will be will be updated with additional details.

The Foundation Data Model (FDM) Translation Tool, which was utilized to convert PeopleSoft chartfield values into Workday values, will be decommissioned after July 31, 2024.

The detailed FY25 period close and department fiscal payroll processing calendar has been published and is now available on the Controller's website for download in Excel format. Note: In FY25, Assets and Depreciation close will occur on Day 5. Previously, these activity groups closed on Day 3 and 4, respectively.

Two helpful reports are available to assist with year-end business document clean up that was first shared in April (see original post).

The "UNIV Remaining Encumbrances - Requisitions, POs, Spent Authorizations" report helps end users identify transactions and their encumbrances that will roll forward at the end of the fiscal year.