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Business Update
Minors and visiting undergraduates participating in research or clinical activities
April 24, 2024
If you plan to have a minor or visiting undergraduate participate in research or clinical activities, please complete the appropriate application through...
Attention Planning Unit Lead Administrators – Preparation for Year-End GA Sweep Process
April 24, 2024
As you may recall from years past, we instituted a process in 2019 whereby the Budget Office collects the Chart of Accounts (COA) to be used as the offset for each unit’s GA Sweep . The COA combination used for...
Controlled Substance Annual Inventory April 30 - May 5
April 24, 2024
To All PIs with Controlled Substance Licenses, The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) requires labs authorized to use controlled substances to complete an annual inventory of those substances. This year’s annual inventory will run from Tuesday, April 30, at 5 p.m.through Sunday,...
Planning for year-end close – key dates
April 17, 2024
The Controller’s Office will release the year-end closing instructions and calendar during the first full week of May (on or about May 8, 2024). The instructions and calendar will be posted in the...
Plan for these upcoming cybersecurity awareness events
April 11, 2024
Ready for a cyber tune-up? Our Bee Cyber Fit spring campaign is underway!
‘Find the Phish’ workshopsApril 19 and April 23
Did you know social engineering remains a top concern at the university? Or that artificial intelligence has increased the complexity and frequency of...
Operations Portfolio Management Office Status Reports – March 2024 Available
April 10, 2024
The Operations Portfolio Management Office (OPMO) status reports are now available for March 2024. These reports provide Operations and Academic business unit leaders with access to information about current and upcoming programs.
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Good news! PCard limits are increasing.
April 10, 2024
Summary The Yale University Purchase Card Program has addressed PCard holder feedback by increasing Travel and Supplies PCard limits. Limit increases were made to current PCards automatically. No action was needed by Lead Administrators, Operations Managers, or Cardholders. PCard holders will be...
Faculty Annual Compensation Review process begins April 15
April 10, 2024
The Faculty Annual Compensation Review business process in Workday will be available beginning on Monday, April 15. The process is used to submit FY24/25 Faculty Compensation recommendations.
Authorized business office staff from the FAS Dean’s Office, the professional schools, and the...
COA Closures & Hierarchy changes - FY24 year-end timetable
April 10, 2024
Please note that prior to the FY24 year-end close period, the last opportunity for Chart of Accounts (COA) requests related to segment closures, cost center hierarchy changes or reorganizations is May FY24 month-end (calendar June). Please submit all closure / reorganization requests to COA or...
Procurement to perform two PO mass closures - week of April 22
April 10, 2024
Procurement to perform two PO mass closures - week of April 22
Mass closure of fully paid purchase orders April 24
Procurement plans to perform a mass closure of fully paid purchase orders (POs) on April 24. This closure will apply to fully paid POs with no activity in...
Reminder: World Travel replaces Egencia effective May 1
April 10, 2024
Summary Beginning May 1, World Travel will replace Egencia for all Yale business travel |
OneFinance: Hire business process update
April 10, 2024
Summary The Hire business process in Workday has been updated, effective April 10. Details
The Hire business process in Workday has been updated to add a task to assign costing allocations for “temporary/casual (fixed term)” individuals. The task will be routed to the Cost Center Payroll Costing...
Update to AHR and FAB report subscription transfer process
April 10, 2024
To streamline the AHR and FAB subscription ownership transfer process, effective April 10, requestors will be able to run their own subscription report on the PowerBI server and submit subscription transfer requests directly to the Reporting and Analytics Services IT team.
Detailed...
Coming Soon: Enhanced Payroll Dashboard Interactive Report
April 3, 2024
Beginning on Thursday, April 4, an updated version of the Payroll Dashboard interactive report will be available on the Power BI Report Server to support the review of payroll expenses. This updated report has been rebranded to Payroll Dashboard (formerly Payroll Comparison) and contains new...
New Suspense Report Enhancements Are Now Live
April 3, 2024
Summary A new Workday report, Suspense Balances Review – Yale, is now live in Workday. We expect the current suspense reports will be retired following the close of the FY24 Year-End reporting. View the user guide detailing the functionality of the new report on the...
Workday Learning training notices to resume starting April 1
April 3, 2024
As of April 1, Workday Learners will receive email notifications for assigned learning in Workday Learning and reminders before the assignment due date 60, 30, and 14 days in advance. Learning assignments are based on your role or your most recent compliance assessment...
Policy & Procedure updates – Mar. 27, 2024
March 27, 2024
The following policy documents, which previously completed their full review and approval process, are now published and effective. Please discuss the documents with the appropriate people in your department and send any questions to...
Additional enhancements to the Unexpensed Credit Card Transactions – Yale report
March 27, 2024
What’s New
We’ve heard your feedback! We are pleased to announce that recent changes have been made to the notices and reporting as part of the PCard Auto Suspension...
Finance Data Model updates
March 27, 2024
Effective Wednesday, March 27 several new items have been added to the Finance Data Model.
New fields pulling from YBT tables to help facilitate budget office reporting: Charging Cost Center Management Rollup Charging Cost Center Management Rollup Alternate Charging Cost Center Functional...Enhancement to the Account Balances Detail – Yale report
March 27, 2024
Effective Friday, March 22, 2024, the ‘Account Balances Detail – Yale’ report was enhanced to include the Budget Date as a field in the details view. Also, to facilitate user review and pivot functionality, ‘Fiscal Period by Budget Date’ has been added as a ‘View by’ option. The enhancements...
Complete Moveable Equipment Inventory before April 15
March 27, 2024
In accordance with Federal regulations and University policy, a physical inventory of Yale’s Moveable Equipment must be completed at least every two years to ensure that the University has properly maintained and accurately accounted for equipment within each unit. The start date for the FY24...
Human Research Study Participant Remuneration – Custodian Training is Available
March 20, 2024
Summary A new course , Human Research Study Participant Remuneration – Custodian Training is available in Workday Learning for Principal Investigators and Custodians. Individuals with open study participant advances received this message on March 18 th and will be assigned the...
NEW Workday Dashboard – COA Project Closure Dashboard
March 20, 2024
Summary Effective March 19, 2024, a new Chart of Accounts (COA) Project Closure Dashboard is available in Workday to assist departments in completing COA segment closures. The...
Find Awards and Grants - Yale
March 20, 2024
The report ‘Find Awards and Grants - Yale’ has been enhanced to include the ‘Document ID’ field. This field will allow both distributed and central users to better identify Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) awards in Workday. Payment Management System (PMS) uses the ‘Document ID’ to...
Coming Soon: Suspense Reporting Enhancements
March 20, 2024
Summary
In early April, a new Workday report, Suspense Balances Review – Yale , will be released to enhance the monitoring and prevention of suspense transactions.
DetailsThe report will provide business units with accurate suspense balances while closing the...
Policy & Procedure updates: Mar. 13, 2024
March 13, 2024
The following draft documents, which have completed the committee stages of their formal review, are now available for community review and comment and are posted on Policies & Procedures Drafts . The...
New Purchase Order Procedure Resources Now Available
March 13, 2024
Summary
In July 2023, 3201 PR.01 Purchase Order Process was updated to create a clearly documented and comprehensive Purchase Order (PO) procedure....
Coming Soon - Enhancement to the Unexpensed Credit Card Transactions - Yale report
March 13, 2024
Summary Notifying individual Yale purchasing card (PCard) holders who are delinquent for 90 days or more in submitting their expense reports is currently a manual process. Effective Monday, March 18 , Yale will automate purchasing card suspension notifications through Workday and...
Financial Review Checklist Updates: Workday Learning Reports
March 6, 2024
The Financial Review Checklist (FRC) ( Form 1101 FR.01 ) has been reviewed and updated. The FRC has been updated to reflect the new Workday Learning program that has replaced the Training and...
Workday upgrade March 9, 2024 – What to expect
March 6, 2024
Summary
On Saturday, March 9 , Workday will be upgraded to a new version. Please find links to helpful information to prepare you for the changes in the Details section below. A snapshot of the changes include:
Interface updates – all users...