This quick reference guide spotlights the enhancements to the Cardinal Timesheet and Absence Entry. Key upgrades include a refreshed timesheet layout, real-time absence balance forecasting, and a more modern, mobile-friendly design.

Provides step‑by‑step guidance for delegating approval authority in Cardinal Financials, including creating, revoking, accepting, and rejecting delegation requests. Covers allowable transaction types, delegation rules, email notifications, and how both Delegators and Delegates can track delegation status.

Explains how to access and use the Financial Insights dashboards, including filters, navigation tools, and visualizations for statewide GL, budget, revenue, project, supplier, and employee‑expense data.

Explains how WorkCenters provide a centralized workspace for daily financial tasks, including transaction entry, approvals, error review, and access to commonly used links, queries, and reports. Includes guidance on WorkCenter layout, navigation, filters, and summaries for each functional area WorkCenter.

Summarizes how HCM WorkCenters provide a centralized workspace for Benefits, Payroll, and Time & Attendance users, offering quick access to daily tasks, approvals, errors, links, queries, and reports. Includes guidance on navigation, filter use, and the layout of each functional WorkCenter.

Covers time administration procedures for managing specific exception or special case time transaction scenarios (e.g., reported time outside grace period, reported time after termination date).

Provides a list of exceptions that could be generated in Cardinal Time & Attendance after the time administration process runs. Includes exception ID, exception description, message, severity level, and whether the exception is allowable by the approver.

Instructions for time and absence transaction sent to Cardinal using the Time Entry Upload and Absence Entry Upload Interfaces. Includes the process steps for each upload as well as information on common file and transaction errors, processing file upload errors, and reviewing the upload error queries and reports.

Understand the Cardinal overtime and shift differential payment (i.e., lag pay) workflow and how approval timing affects pay dates. This job aid provides examples illustrating the release of approved hours for completed FLSA period (first business day after the prior period's check date) and their subsequent payment on the next check date.

Guides Time and Labor Employee Setup Administrators on both the automated (TL Auto Enrollment) and manual steps for setting up employees in Cardinal Time and Attendance. Learn about time reporting attributes, time reporting codes, and key administrator responsibilities including monitoring auto-enrollment, managing eligibility, and maintaining work schedules.

Explains how Time & Labor Supervisors approve Reported Time, Payable Time, Absence Requests, and Absence Cancellations in Cardinal. Covers approval steps, offsets, WorkCenter navigation, interfacing agency processes, exception management, and how to view approval status and time/absence workflow outcomes.

Explains how supervisors delegate, revoke, accept, or reject time‑and‑absence approval authority in Cardinal. Covers setting delegation dates, choosing delegates, selecting transaction types, handling automatic expiration, viewing delegation status, and best‑practice guidance to ensure approvals route correctly.

Excel spreadsheet containing a list of the various absence leave types in Cardinal and the corresponding absence eligibility groups to which they apply.

Instructions for Absence Administrators for entering, editing, deleting, or voiding an absence event on behalf of an employee, timekeeper, or supervisor.