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This is a reminder to everyone that the Auditor of State Training is due by Tuesday, October 29. An email was sent out to all employees from the Office of Business and Finance. As a reminder, Ohio Senate Bill 91 recently amended Ohio Rev. Code 4113.52 to require all state employees, with few exceptions, to report alleged fraud, theft in office or misuse or misappropriation of public money to the state. House Bill 33 then amended Ohio Rev.

Beginning Thursday, October 24, two new fields will be added at the header level of a requisition. These new fields are "Freight" and "Other Charges." This change will allow end users to account for any freight or additional handling charges noted on a quote without adding a line item to the requisition.

Two supplier invoice matching rules will be updated on Thursday, October 24. The changes listed below will be made for the University only.

On Thursday October 24, the Tableau report "Delegation History - OSU" will be enhanced with the fields listed below.

A new column has been added to the "Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" report to display the Stock Request Number for journal lines with an Inventory Shipment journal source. This is to allow end users to trace a shipment back to the original requisition submitted for the order.

The "Cost of Sales" worktag changes listed below are coming soon.

Validations on Expenditure Treatment (ET101)

Two Payroll Accounting reports have/will be updated based on some user feedback.

The "Payroll Accounting Adjustments Status" report has been updated as of October 17. The "Created By" field has been replaced with the "Initiating Worker" and "Initiating Worker's Employee ID" fields so that this information is visible to all report end users. A column with approver information has also been added, titled "Approved by Workers."

The "Find Transaction Summary Reports" report group has been created to help end users run multiple reports with a single set of prompts. This report group will render results for the summary report groups in the following areas: Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Report, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoices, Supplier Invoice Requests, and Purchase Orders. The output of all these reports is compiled and downloaded into one Excel file for end user convenience.

The Nelnet Commerce Manager training is a half-hour course and introduction to using Nelnet Commerce Manager. Nelnet Commerce Manager is a simple but flexible option for accepting credit card payments online.

A new feature, Workday Assistant, has been enabled that provides more relevant and useful search results in the new Simplified Search view.

Workday Assistant uses natural language processing, so in many cases, you will not need to match Workday terminology exactly to get relevant results. And depending on your search, the information you are looking for may be included in the search results, no additional navigation necessary.