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  • Ohio Sales Tax Holiday Effective August 1 - 14

    Cristina Cardenas | July 10, 2025
    The Ohio Department of Taxation has announced there will be an Ohio Sales Tax Holiday in effect from 12 a.m. Friday, August 1 until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, August 14, 2025. During the holiday, the exemption will apply to all sales of goods that are $500 or less except for certain watercraft, motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, vapor products, or items containing marijuana. See the full post for more details as well as a contact for questions.

  • “Report Phishing” button becomes “Report Suspicious” in July

    Beth Varcho | July 7, 2025
    For several years, you have been using the Report Phishing button in Outlook, Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access (OWA). Beginning on July 14, the button will change to “Report Suspicious.” The new name reflects the usefulness of the button for more than phishing. Not all suspicious messages are technically phishing. “Report Suspicious” invites you to flag anything that seems off.

  • Improving Cybersecurity Research Study: Chance to Win a Gift Card

    Digital Security and Trust | July 1, 2025
    All faculty and staff are invited to participate in an online survey as part of a joint study conducted by Fisher College of Business and the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation. The study examines how employees can build resilience to cybersecurity attacks (e.g., phishing). Your insights will help strengthen the university’s defenses against cyber threats and contribute to Ohio State’s b...

  • Cost of Sales Worktag Validations on Supplier Invoices

    Cristina Cardenas | June 27, 2025
    During the week of June 23, Workday validations were added to the supplier invoice business process to ensure that the cost of sales expenditure treatment worktag can only be utilized by approved university earnings operations (Funds FD120, FD121, FD122 and FD200). As a reminder, use of the ET101 expenditure treatment drives the transaction accounting to the cost of sales ledger account (61020). See the full post for more details and guidance.

  • Supplier Invoice Reporting Updates

    Cristina Cardenas | June 27, 2025
    A column on the output of the reports "Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU" and "Find Supplier Invoice Details - OSU" has been removed due to performance issues. The report field removed was "All Invoices Paid to Supplier on Settlement Run." End users can instead run the report "Supplier Payments" to obtain a list of invoices paid to a supplier during a particular settlement run.

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