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In response to feedback regarding encumbrance logic, all financial reports (i.e. Sources and Uses suite, Equity Balances) will be updated to reflect the new encumbrance logic. The new logic will now be static in nature; once a fiscal period is closed the ending encumbrance number for the period will never change. The previous logic reflected fluid encumbrances and constantly updated. Expect the financial reports logic to be updated by July 29, 2022 (this does not affect grants reporting).

The Requisition Exception report is used to identify after the fact exceptions on requisitions. The report now only returns one row per approved requisition where "after the fact" is the requisition type. 

The prompt has also been enhanced to allow users to search for exceptions based on Cost Center Hierarchy Level 6,7, and 8. The dates on the report have also been corrected so users can run the report based on requisition approval dates as opposed to when a requisition was created.  

Enhancements for the Expense Report Exceptions report will be available in Production no later than August 1, 2022. The report has been enhanced to provide additional functionality and usability. The enhancements are listed below.

Three Workday reports, “Find Expense Reports - OSU,” “Find Expense Report Lines,” and “Find Expense Report Lines for Organization” will be decommissioned on August 31, 2022. 

These reports will be replaced by two new reports named “Find Expense Report Details - OSU” and “Find Expense Report Summary - OSU,” which will be available in Production the last week of July. 

The report "Find Cash Advances - OSU" will be decommissioned on July 29, 2022. The report attributes have been added to "Find Spend Authorization Details - OSU" which will return a more complete picture of Cash Advances. 

Users with saved filters on "Find Cash Advances - OSU" are asked to delete them prior to the decommission date.  

As part of HR Optimization efforts, on Friday, July 15, enhancements were applied for Period Activity Pay (PAP) to assist with streamlining the business process for both Cost Center Managers and HR Consultants. The following enhancements were implemented:

For the month of August, departments are charged for one half of the nine-month rate for their nine-month faculty. To properly expense August salary, best practice is to use the costing dates of 08/15/2022 to 08/31/2022. This will ensure that costing prorates properly for the half month of pay.

Encumbrance updates for 9-month faculty (the adjustment to convert encumbrances from 12 months to 9 months) are still being calculated. Updates are anticipated to be finalized by mid-July.