As of Monday March 6, 2023, the VWR punchout within the Bobcat Buy (“BCB”) system, has been upgraded with enhanced features. The VWR punchout, an online catalog for one of our preferred suppliers for scientific supplies contracted via the Intra-University Council Purchasing Group consortium, now includes:

On the Grants Funds Available dashboard, we made the following enhancement to add two additional drilldowns from the Award number, which required us to rename the two existing drilldowns for clarity purposes.  While the existing drilldowns allowed you to drilldown to Expenditure Categories (e.g., Salaries and Wages,

Finance Customer Care regularly receives questions about how to calculate mileage reimbursement for employees working remotely.

Beginning on January 1, 2023, the standard mileage rates for the use of a personal vehicle is 65.5 cents per mile driven for business use. This is 3 cents more than the 2022 year rate.

As previously announced, the Employee Service Center (ESC) has been integrated into the Ohio University Business Service Center

Ohio University and The Ohio University Foundation have transitioned from JP Morgan Chase to PNC Financial Services. This banking change is applicable to payroll processing, accounts payable processing, student refunds, and bank deposits.

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule requires federal contractors to use E-Verify to electronically verify the employment eligibility of employees working under covered federal contracts.

External billings are necessary when a university department has provided goods or services to an external party and needs to bill for those goods or services. University departments are not permitted to send their own invoices.

In accordance with the Ohio Revised Code and Ohio University Policy #51.001 Deposits of Funds, all funds must be deposited with the Office of the Bursar or with the regional campus business office within one business day of receipt unless the amount is less than $1,000 and