As of Friday, November 3, the "Calculate Current Year Retained Earnings" checkbox will be retired by Workday.
Using this checkbox tells the report to calculate ending equity balances by taking beginning equity balance â net margin. Those who still need comparable behavior may utilize the "General Ledger Balance â Balance Sheet Details" report which will calculate ending equity in this manner. Please review the October Finance Office hours for a demo of this change.
The "Delegation History - OSU" report date filters have been updated for a better reporting experience. When the user opens the report, on the "Delegation by Month" tab, the "User Input Month" field is updated with the current month. On the "Delegation by Date Range" tab, the "Date Range" field is updated with first day of the current month and current date. The user can select the dates based on their requirements from the filter icon as needed.
Report Enhancements: Credit Card Transactions - OSU and Find Credit Cards - OSU:
The "Credit Card Transactions - OSU" and "Find Credit Cards - OSU" have been enhanced with two additional fields.
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 â 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.