Tagged: Grants

Beginning Friday, March 15, all non-PO internal supplier invoice lines over $5,000 tied to the OSP Grant Hierarchy will route to the Grants Shared Service Center for review prior to posting. This review is to help ensure that grants are charged only approved internal billing rates, charges are in compliance with the grant agreement, and have appropriate supporting documentation.

The Workday "Effort Certification Status Report – OSU" has been updated to ensure terminated employees are included. Previously, when using cost center or cost center hierarchy with the Org Assignment Cost Center Hierarchies prompt, terminated workers would not display.

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. 

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. 

A new monthly Workday notification and email reminder will be sent to individuals with effort certifications pending their approval for 30 or more days. 

A new Aggregate tab default view is now available. The new view:

Effective Friday, January 20, Position Restriction costing allocations can use grants. Any new positions that are grant funded can now be set up at the Create Position step. Cost Center Managers are not required to update the previously recorded costing allocations to accommodate the new functionality. 

The two Principal Investigator spend authorization and expense report notification improvements listed have been recently implemented.

• Spend authorization and expense report notifications were updated to include the grant numbers from the transactions.
• Expense report notifications will only be sent if there is not a linked spend authorization or if the expense report total is over $500 and the cost center is not CC10982: ERIK | Office of Sponsored Programs Administration.

With the volume of data now in Workday, users are experiencing system performance issues when running the 120 Day Award Closeout Report. We recommend users schedule the 120 Day Award Closeout Report to run during off-hours (in the evening, overnight, or during the weekend). Scheduling the report during non-peak hours will reduce the amount of time it takes to run the report. The report also remains available for viewing within Workday for the number of days you specify when scheduling the report.

Below are instructions for scheduling the 120 Day Award Closeout Report.

As a part of fiscal year-end activities, subaward supplier contract encumbrances will be closed out for FY22 and re-opened in FY23. 

An encumbrance will not roll-forward into FY23 if there is an active supplier contract amendment on a subaward. This issue was confirmed in testing. As a result, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is providing the following guidance for subaward supplier contract amendments: