News: Workday

  • Reminder: New Unit Monthly Reconciliation Checklist

    Richard Hunter | August 4, 2023
    This is a reminder that the new unit monthly reconciliation checklist is available for download and is intended to be a guide to assist units in the development of the processes necessary to ensure an effective internal control environment. While it is not required to be utilized, if a unit chooses not to implement these procedures, their own procedures need to be identified and impleme...

  • New Internal Billing Process Affects Balances on Financial and Grants Reporting  

    Richard Hunter | August 4, 2023
    As part of the new internal order billing process which goes live on October 1, 2023, units will see purchase order encumbrance amounts liquidate based on the internally billed/supplier invoice amounts. Therefore, the new process will accurately reflect the balances on financial and grants reporting. Once we are transitioned to the new process, the Controller’s office will no longer do a mass mon...

  • Payroll Accounting and FD101 

    Richard Hunter | August 4, 2023
    This is a reminder to routinely review payroll expenses that posted to FD101 Default Clearing Fund. FD101 is not intended to be used in costing allocations or on financial transactions. If salary expenses do post to this fund, the expectation is that they be moved via Payroll Accounting Adjustments. There have been instances where payroll has posted to FD101 and this has yet to be cleared out. Th...

  • Manager Resources for Onboarding New Employees

    Richard Hunter | July 28, 2023
    Managers play an important role in guiding new employees as they pursue successful and fulfilling Ohio State careers. There are many resources managers can leverage to welcome and transition new team members. Personalize a welcome message in Workday and make sure the new employee completes important onboarding tasks. Additionally, guides are available to identify important steps to complete at va...

  • Report Enhancement: Flexible Payroll Expense Data (Tableau Report)

    Richard Hunter | July 21, 2023
    The Flexible Payroll Expense Data report allows users to customize worktags for payroll expenses. The tableau report interface for the custom worktag selection will be enhanced to improve the end user experience. Instead of users selecting the "select column" icon from the top right of the report, now all the column selections will appear above the column’s headings and will remain displayed. Att...

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