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Several reporting updates are current as of June 2. An enhancement has been made to Business Process Approval Times Reporting, a new "Find Procurement Mass Close Requests - OSU" report is available, and a new financial report named "Sources and Uses - Monthly Trending" is available.

The ODS (DWHCRPT) and Data Mart (DWDMOSU) have been retired as of this Sunday, June 1, at 5 p.m. Student data that was accessible in the ODS (DWHCRPT) and the Data Mart (DWDMOSU) has transitioned to the RAE (Reporting and Analytics Environment). See the full post for more details and help links.

Please note there will be no check run on June 19 due to the university holiday. Any checks anticipated for June 19 will be pulled into settlement for the June 12 check run. Please ensure all needed payments for that timeframe are fully approved prior to 10 a.m. on June 12. Pickup will remain 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on June 12.

Supplier Maintenance has updated two forms to aid in the supplier setup process. Both the Compliance Form for Payments to B or W Visa Holders and the Non-Resident Alien (NRA) Checklist have been revised. Please access the new forms through the Business and Finance "Policies and Forms" page to ensure you are using the latest versions. See the full post for a link.

Effective June 1, 2025, the PCard Policy has been published with updated policies and procedures. See the full post for link details.

The Office of Marketing and Communications has revised the University Websites Policy, which establishes governance for the creation and management of all university websites on osu.edu, ohio-state.edu and osumc.edu. The updated policy requires all units to designate a web lead and technical manager for sites; mandates a website registration process; updates content requirements; addresses the use of third-party tools, advertising and online payment acceptance; and establishes a Web Governance Council with oversight responsibilities, among other measures. Read more at: go.osu.edu/website-policy.

On Monday, June 2, several credit card and expense-related reports will have maintenance performed on the back end of the reports. Changes as a result of this work will replace retired Workday prompts. While end users will still be able to use the same prompts after maintenance is complete, any saved filters and/or scheduled processes will be affected for the reports. Users will need to re-save filters and re-schedule reports after June 2 for any saved filters or scheduled processes that use the reports and prompts listed in the full post.

Please continue to refer to the Unit Year-end Checklist, found on the Business and Finance website's Controller page, for important year-end dates, timeline information and tasks that need to be performed. Procurement and expenses close will occur at Noon on Monday, June 30. Similar to last year, to avoid potential accounting issues, we are asking that no transaction approvals, changes, or cancellations occur after that time until the roll forward is complete the following day. This includes Requisitions, POs, Change Orders, Supplier Invoices (for both Internal and External Suppliers), Miscellaneous Payments and Expense Reports. It's highly recommended to have FY25 procurement and expense transactions fully approved by the end of the day on Friday, June 27, 2025.

As a part of fiscal year-end activities, subaward supplier contract encumbrances will be closed out for FY25 and re-opened in FY26. An encumbrance will not roll-forward into FY26 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 shared in the full post for subaward supplier contract amendments.

During the week of May 26, a new financial trending report will be made available. The new "Sources and Uses - Monthly Trending" report allows the user to select the Period, as well as worktag information and then will show Actuals broken out by each period in the respective "Fiscal Year," along with Year to Date Encumbrances, Beginning and Ending Equity numbers. See the full post for more details and where to send questions.