Tagged: Financial Accounting

This is a friendly reminder to units to clean up financial worktags that are no longer being used and submit inactivation requests through Workday. Prior to submitting worktag inactivation requests, ensure that the Inactivation Checklist has been completed and worktags show a zero balance. For more information, see the FDM Request Process for New Worktag Values job aid available in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).

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.

Cost Center Managers and Service Centers have a responsibility to ensure the appropriate spend category is used on all transactions.

Pay special care to non-catalog requests with items with a useful life of one or more years that are over the greater than $5,000 threshold and ensure an appropriate trackable spend category is used; otherwise, the transaction will not route for registration. The "Spend Categories – FDM Values" report can be run with a filter on "Spend Category is Trackable" to identify trackable spend categories.

New tips and tricks information on the Miscellaneous Payment process has been added to the Business and Finance website to provide users with an overview of the business process and links to additional resources.

The downloadable FDM worktag reference guide has been updated to include information on “Driver” and “Related” worktags and how they function. It is highly recommended for related worktags to only be used if that is going to be the associated worktag value 100% of the time.

As of Tuesday, August 8, the Cost Center Manager role is no longer paired with the Cost Center Fund Transfer Approver role. The Cost Center Director role will continue to be paired with the Cost Center Fund Transfer Approver role.   

Starting in September (during August month-end close), initiators and approvers of journals and fund transfers that are in a "created" or "in progress" status on business day 4 will see new Workday alerts/notifications. It is important to take immediate action on these items prior to 4 p.m. on business day 5 to avoid these entries being canceled or moved to the next period.

Last updated 10/13/23

In order to support training for the new Internal Order Billing process go-live in October, the Controller's Office will be slightly delaying the closure of internal purchase orders during August close and September close. Internal purchase orders for August will be closed on Tuesday, September 5 (as opposed to 8/31), and internal purchase orders for September will be closed on Monday, October 2 (as opposed to 9/29). This will ensure there is adequate test data in the training tenant.

As a part of fiscal year-end activities, subaward supplier contract encumbrances will be closed out for FY23 and re-opened in FY24. An encumbrance will not roll-forward into FY24 if a subaward supplier contract has an "Amendment in Process" status. This issue was confirmed in testing. As a result, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is providing the guidance below for subaward supplier contract amendments.