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  • New Report Group: Financial Transactions Awaiting Action

    |January 8, 2025

    A new report group, Financial Transactions Awaiting Action, has been released. This report includes three different reports that provide a list and the status of journal, accounting adjustment, and asset transactions that are awaiting an approval or to-do step. To run this report group, users can go to the "Schedule a Report" task and search for "Financial Transactions Awaiting Action." Once the prompts are entered and the report group runs, all reports will be available in one Excel spreadsheet. 

  • Coming Soon: 1099 Income Reporting Update for Payees

    |January 8, 2025

    In preparation for the combined federal and state filing changes, the Payee Setup Form along with the Miscellaneous Payee and Miscellaneous Payment Request tasks will be updated to include additional address prompts for 1099 income reporting when the state in which work is performed differs from the state associated with the payee’s primary address. The changes listed below will occur on January 17.

  • FY26 Blanket Purchase Order Entry

    |January 8, 2025

    Please do not begin entering FY26 blanket purchase orders until April 14, 2025. More information and detailed instructions on creating FY26 blanket purchase orders is forthcoming.

    Update: See the Future Dated Requisitions to be Used for FY26 Blanket Order Entry post.

  • "Find Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary - OSU" Report Enhancement

    |January 8, 2025

    The field "Reference ID" has been added to the output of the "Find Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary - OSU" report. This change aids those needing the field to perform mass actions on miscellaneous payment requests.

  • "Find Requisition Details - OSU" Report Enhancement

    |January 8, 2025

    The field "Inventory Stock Request Line" has been added to the output of the "Find Requisition Details - OSU" report. This change allows end users to identify the specific inventory stock request number to which the requisition was sourced.

  • Coming Soon: Payroll Accounting Adjustments with Retro Periods

    |January 8, 2025

    During the week of January 27, a new interface will be released for Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAA) for retroactive payroll posted on a paycheck. Once this change is made, if there is a retro pay period associated with the earnings needing to be moved, PAA Specialists will now need to select the correct retro period.

  • Mileage Reimbursement for January 2025

    |December 20, 2024

    Effective January 1, 2025, the mileage reimbursement rate will increase from 67 cents per mile to 70 cents per mile for all business miles driven from January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.

    Contact the Travel Office with questions at travel@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.

  • New Catering and Event Rental Catalogs in Buckeye Buy Jan. 1

    |December 20, 2024

    New hosted catalogs for drop-off and full-service catering and event equipment rental services are now in Buckeye Buy. These catalogs have replaced "The Catering Marketplace" supplier website which was removed from Buckeye Buy at the close of business on Friday, December 27.

    Below are answers to common order placement questions. 

    Order Placement Q&A

  • Enhancements to "Find Suppliers - OSU" Report

    |December 20, 2024

    New prompts have been added to the "Find Suppliers - OSU" report. Users can now prompt on the "Last Updated On or After" and "Last Updated On or Before" dates. The "Last Updated Date" has also been added as a column on the output of the report. 

  • Mass Close of Old Purchase Orders

    |December 5, 2024

    To assist with the year-end procurement roll-forward process, the Controller’s Office will be analyzing and closing out old internal and external Purchase Orders (PO) which meet the parameters listed below.

    • POs that are over two years old which have not been invoiced in the previous year (excluding POs for multiyear service contracts that are only billed annually, those related to construction projects beginning with "PJOSU," OAKS type POs, and those that are FD520 grant related).