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Effective August 18, a revised Earnings Operations policy has been issued. Changes were made to clarify earnings operations requirements and advance compliance with current Office of Management and Budget Uniform Guidance, the authoritative set of rules and requirements for federal awards management. Check out the full post for key changes and be sure to read the policy in its entirety to familiarize yourself with the changes.

Additional improvements (Phase 2) have been made to the "Personnel/Non-Personnel Expenditure Summary" Workday reports. Phase 1 details were shared in June. Link is in the full post. The "Personnel Expenditure Summary" now gives the user the ability to break out Cost Share and Sponsor costs. And the report run time has been improved for both reports!

The "Costing Allocation Distribution % * Position FTE" column has been removed from the "Payroll Funding - Costing Allocations for Filled Positions" report to provide a more streamlined and accurate view of costing allocations, particularly for workers with split appointments. While earnings costing associated with allowance plans continues to be displayed on the report, users should refer to the worker’s profile in Workday to view the associated pay details of allowance plans.

The Worker Security Assignments report is now available in Workday. This report can be used as an alternative to the weekly Excel file refreshed by the Enterprise Business Solutions team. However, because it queries a large data set, it may run slowly at times. Read on to learn more about the report's features and which roles can access it.

Effective August 28, Spend Authorization approval routing in Workday will be updated to further streamline the approval process. There were some instances where these transactions were routing to both the Cost Center Managers and the Grant Managers. Read more for the specific details about this change and how it affects Grant Managers, Cost Center Managers, and Cost Center Directors.

A new column has been added to the "Business Process Approval Times - Supplier Invoice Request Detail" and "Business Process Approval Times - Supplier Invoice Request Summary" reports. This column captures the approval time for the Buyer approval role and was added to report on the recently implemented approval step for supplier invoice requests that exceed the bid limit.

The "Find Purchase Orders - Detailed Location Information" report has been enhanced to include the Purchase Order Line Requested Delivery Date field on the output of the report. This addition enables users to identify purchase order lines that have reached their requested delivery date but have not yet been received. It also allows for easier comparison between the requested delivery date and the actual receipt date.

This post shares information about key dates for Autumn 2026 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.

The Controller’s Office has updated spend and revenue category definitions for FY27 to support more consistent category usage across the university. These enhancements will improve data quality for reporting, analytics, and compliance while also providing greater visibility into downstream impacts, including asset registration and 1099/1042-S tax reporting. Learn more about the changes and how they may affect your work.

Beginning November 1, 2026, important changes will take effect regarding rental vehicle insurance coverage for drivers aged 18-20 traveling on university business. Units and travelers are encouraged to adopt these requirements as soon as possible in advance of the effective date to avoid disruptions and ensure compliance.