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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. Pivot tables have been added on a tab in the Excel output summarizing the report statuses.

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.

A bid was done for gift cards and incentives, resulting in contracts being awarded to two suppliers – Virtual Incentives and Tango. These contracts are available for university-wide use for digital and physical gift cards. Contract information can be found on the appropriate contract book pages.

Sources and Uses - Variance Analysis Changes

Effective Tuesday, October 1, 2024, the Travel Policy will be updated to reflect guidance for childcare costs and travel costs for children as outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations. Changes are listed below.

The Controller's Office recommends that units do a periodic review for worktags that are no longer being used and submit inactivation requests through an FDM Request in Workday. Prior to submitting worktag inactivation requests, please ensure that the Inactivation Checklist has been completed and the balances are clear.

Below are details about recent and upcoming report changes.

Find Journals - OSU

The "Find Journals - OSU" report has been enhanced with two additional fields in the output of the report. The field names are "Cost Center" and "Worktags."

Report Retirement Reminder

The reports "Find Accounting Adjustments" and "Find Accounting Adjustment Lines for Organizations" will be retired on Friday, September 27. The recommended replacement for these reports is "Accounting Adjustment Status - OSU."