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  • Coming November: Financial Reporting Office Hours Pilot

    Cristina Cardenas | October 30, 2025
    Have questions about Workday financial reports? Starting Wednesday, November 19, join quarterly office hours hosted by the Controller’s Office to receive updates, ask questions, and share feedback directly with the reporting team. The Office Hours will be open to all consumers of financial reports and will initially be held on a quarterly basis.

  • Report Changes Coming Friday, November 7

    Cristina Cardenas | October 30, 2025
    The "OSU - Find Assets" report prompts will be updated to include a new "Grant Hierarchies" prompt as well as a "Worktags" prompt. The "Cost Center," "Grant," and "Project" prompts will be removed as the new "Worktags" field allows users to search for those three types of worktags, as well as all others. Additionally, to allow users more flexibility in prompting, the "Cost Center" prompt on the report group "Financial Transactions Awaiting Action" will be replaced with a "Worktags" prompt. See the full post for more details and a list of affected reports.

  • Cash Sales and OSP Grants

    Cristina Cardenas | October 30, 2025
    On Friday, October 23 a new custom validation was put in place to restrict the usage of OSP Grants on cash sales. For refunds or repayments of grant expenditures, please contact ERIK Grants Accounting (ospgrantsaccounting@osu.edu) for guidance.

  • Ohio Senate Bill 1 (SB1) Compliance Tracking Updates

    Cristina Cardenas | October 30, 2025
    There are two new updates regarding Ohio Senate Bill 1 (SB1) compliance tracking. Update #1 - It has been clarified that if the university pays for external speaker fees or honorariums on behalf of student organizations, the payments are not subject to SB1 tracking requirements. To align with this clarification, two new spend categories (and corresponding expense items) have been created. See the full post for details. Update #2 - Any expense (e.g., transportation, lodging, etc.) paid to or for a guest speaker must be tracked for SB1 Compliance per the terms, also listed in the full post.

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