A new series of reports has been released to help end users identify transactions that are still in draft status or have been submitted, but are pending approval steps. These reports also offer metrics to show the amount of time the transaction has been pending an approval step as well as length of time spent in progress. The business processes included in the new reports are Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoice Requests, Supplier Invoices and PO Change Orders.
There are two different styles of reports, a "Summary" version and a "Detail" version. The report naming conventions are "Business Processes Awaiting Action - (Transaction Type) Summary" or "Business Processes Awaiting Action - (Transaction Type) Detail." Additionally, a dashboard and a report group are available. Additional features are listed below.
The summary-style reports display the security groups awaiting action, number of transactions, days since assignment and days in progress. The detail-style reports display one row per transaction and include the security group and persons awaiting action, days since assignment and days in progress. Basic funding information is also displayed in this reporting. The dashboard, "Business Processes Awaiting Action - Finance/Supply Chain" displays all summary-style reports. The report group "Business Processes Awaiting Action Report Group" allows end users to enter one set of prompts and have all reports download into one Excel file.
A new report is now available for end users to view journal line detail on income statement reporting. The report "Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" can be used to find the journal line details behind the data columns in reporting such as Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags and Sources and Uses.
The Tableau "Financial Balances Summarization" report has been updated on "Project" field. Now, project and project phase code amount will be added in "Project" field.
Starting the week of January 29 , the “Find Supplier Invoice Details – OSU” report will be enhanced with a new "Line Memo" field in the output of the report. The line memo field includes details associated with a purchase for the line. Some internal billing teams are leveraging this field to provide additional clarity in the invoicing for their customers (e.g. tag number, date order was placed, order number, etc.) to verify the customer is billed for the correct record.
An update has been made to the notification that is sent following approval of a Spend Authorization if a cash advance is included. Spend Authorizations that include cash advances will now receive an alternate notification with content specific to cash advance policies.
The "Miscellaneous Payment Request" business process has been modified to route Petty Cash/Human Subjects associated with Office of Sponsored Program (OSP) Grants to the OSP accountants.
Accordingly, "Business Process Approval Times - Miscellaneous Payment Request Details" and "Business Process Approval Times - Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary" have been updated to reflect the new security role in the approval process.
A Workday supported solution will be in production during the week of Monday, February 5 , to support payment requests where a PO is not required for Non-Resident Aliens or Wires (e.g., Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payments).
As part of the new process, users will leverage the "Supplier Invoice Request" Workday business process to request these payments. This enhanced process will reduce forms previously associated with the process and allows for more transparent tracking of requests. See the full post for notable changes as well as a list of what is not changing.
The week of Monday, February 5 , two additional approvals will be available in the Supplier Invoice Business Process listed below.
New Approval for Cash Manager – Treasury will approve any requests to external suppliers when the supplier has a Payment Type of "Manual" or "Wire" and the total invoice amount is greater than or equal to $1 Million. New Approval for Export Control Specialist is available as an ad-hoc approval for Accounts Payable to add in as needed.
The Controller’s Office and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) require that all earnings operations who bill internally, publish their FY24 internal rate/fee listing on their website by February 29, 2024 . If this information is not hosted on a website, please describe exactly where the information is generally available to internal customers (e.g. catalog in Workday, eRAMP etc.). Please use this survey to submit the required information to the Controller’s Office by this date. This information will be added to the internal service provider listing available on the Purchasing website .
Important Notes: If this information is not reported to the Controller's Office by the deadline via the survey, the internal service provider will be deactivated (unable to bill) until it is provided. This information will also need to be updated and maintained with new rates as they are approved/established.In addition, historical rate information must also be maintained for audit purposes.
As a reminder, departments must use the appropriate process for internal transactions, which is the new internal order billing process. Journals and cost transfers are not to be used for earnings/internal billing activity. The department must also use the appropriate FDM structure, revenue/spend categories and ledger accounts to record activity. Any rate changes must be approved by FP&A and the Controller’s Office before being used. All rates must be calculated using appropriate costing principles.
During the week of Monday, January 29 , an enhancement for retro pay on grants for salary over the cap will change for specific job families. Currently, any retro pay on grants with salary over the cap defaults to over the cap worktags. After the change, retro pay no longer cap for the job families listed in the full NewsLink post.
Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAAs) to move retro pay on grants with salary over the cap to the under the cap worktags will no longer be needed for employees in these job families for payroll paid after this change is made. You should continue to monitor retro pay on grants with salary over the cap for all other job families. Please contact OSPGrantsAccounting@osu.edu with any questions.
