Manage Financial Planning Configurations
You can use the financial planning configuration manager to build your Adaptive Planning model when you have Adaptive Planning with Workday Financials or when you have Adaptive Planning and Consolidation (AP&C). Each has different prerequisites.
For AP&C:
- Set up financial accounting in AP&C. See Concept: Financial Accounting in AP&C..
- Set up financial plans and budgets in AP&C. Steps: Set Up Plans or Budgets in AP&C.
For Adaptive Planning with Workday Financials:
- Work with a Workday-certified implementer to set up this feature and its security. If you don't have access to an implementer, contact your Customer Success Manager or Named Support Contact to engage Professional Services.
- Set up financials in Workday.
For both Financials and AP&C:
- In Workday Adaptive Planning, create and register for orchestration the Workday data source credential for the Adaptive Planning instance you want to configure.
- On the API client that you use for the data source credential, change the scope to include all the functional areas for the data sources and report fields on your planning application.
- Security:
- Set Up: Adaptive Planningdomain in the System functional area. Ensure that you're assigned to a security group with Modify access on this domain.
- Set Up: Financial Planningdomain in the Adaptive Planning for Financials functional area. Ensure that you're assigned to a security group with Modify access on this domain.
You can configure and activate the financial planning configuration manager in Workday to reduce the time it takes to set up Adaptive Planning models and data. The financial planning configuration manager automatically creates Adaptive Planning:
- Level hierarchies by concatenating Workday dimensions according to actuals.
- Dimensions, dimension values, and dimension attributes.
- Asset, liability, equity, and income statement accounts in the Adaptive Planning General Ledger account hierarchy, mapped to Workday ledger account summaries.
- Time strata for default and alternate calendars.
- Corporate and reporting currency with currency exchange rate mapping. For AP&C this includes 1 translated currency that loads to actuals in the currency without the need for exchange rates in Adaptive Planning.
- Actuals version. For AP&C, this includes currency versions.
- Actuals from managed journal line summaries in Workday.
- Integration data sources.
- Integration metadata and data loaders.
- Integration tasks with metadata and data refresh schedules.
- Workday external systems.
Adaptive Planning creates the levels and dimension values after the task completes.
Links to view objects in Adaptive Planning function only for tenants configured with User Sync.
You can only edit the Workday custom reports created by the configuration setup from within the financial planning configuration manager.
Once you create a financial planning configuration manager, you can continue to edit it until you activate. After you activate the financial planning configuration manager, you can still make and activate these changes:
Plan Structure | No changes after activation. |
Level | Change the top level hierarchy, included values, excluded values, and advanced filter values. |
Dimensions |
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Accounts |
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Time | No changes after activation. |
Currency | No changes after activation. |
Version | No changes after activation. |
Actuals |
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Refresh Schedule | No changes after activation. |
- Access theManage Financial Planning Configurationtask.
- Complete theLevelpage:
Optie Omschrijving DimensionSelect a primary level.Companyautomatically populates.(Optional) Select aSecondaryandTertiarydimension to concatenate to thePrimarydimension.To change the primary level, you must include(Optional) Select level attributes for each dimension.Companyas either:- Secondary
- Tertiary
(Optional) Select filters to apply to level dimension metadata. Filters apply to actuals data. You can change the actuals filters in theActualspage.Configure(Optional) Configure a filter for the level. You can't select:- Report fields that contain parameters.
- Calculated fields with or without parameters.
- Top Level Hierarchyonly filters the hierarchies. You can also select mid-level hierarchies.
- IncludeandExcludeonly filter leaf nodes, and are mutually exclusive.
- Top Level HierarchyandExclude.
- Includeonly.
- Excludeonly.
- Complete theDimensionspage:
Optie Omschrijving DimensionSelect a dimension from the list of supported worktag types, including custom organization and custom worktag types.Load as List(Optional) Select to add dimension attributes.Configure(Optional) Configure a filter for the dimension. You can select custom worktags or organizations. - Complete theAccountspage:
Optie Omschrijving Account SetSelect a ledger account set.Accounts(Optional) SelectConcatenate Revenue Category and Spend Categorycheck box. You can add attributes to the primary ledger account dimension. You can includeRevenue CategoryandSpend Categoryas dimensions when concatenating with the ledger account.Map Adaptive Planning root accounts to a single individual ledger account summary for each account type.When you select theConcatenate Revenue Category and Spend Categorycheck box:- TheAccounts Concatenationsection becomes available in theConcatenationspage.
- You can select top level hierarchies for both these accounts if you include them in your account concatenation. You can select more than 1 top level hierarchy to create multiple attributes.
- We automatically create these default hierarchy attributes to contain all of the hierarchy values:
- Revenue Category Hierarchy
- Spend Category Hierarchy
- When you configure attributes, you can only select either:
- AnAttributewith noTop Level Hierarchyand theHierarchy Attributecheck box cleared.
- ATop Level Hierarchywith noAttributeand theHierarchy Attributecheck box selected.
Map all income statement and balance sheet accounts if you plan on loading balance sheet data in the future.LiabilitiesAssetsEquityIncome StatementMap Adaptive Planning root accounts to a single individual ledger account summary for each account type. You can only exclude values from the ledger account summary map when you filter. - (Optional) Complete theConcatenationspage:
Optie Omschrijving Level ConcatenationsSelect a:- Primary concatenation.
- Secondary concatenation.
- Tertiary concatenation
If you selected a third level dimension in the Levels page, populate all three concatenations for the level.Account ConcatenationsOnly available whenConcatenate Revenue Category and Spend Categoryis selected in the Accounts section of the Accounts page.Select a:- Primary concatenation. Ledger account.
- Secondary concatenation. Revenue category.
- Tertiary concatenation. Spend category.
This page enables creating planning-only concatenations, without requiring actuals activity.When you delete concatenations, they don't automatically delete within Adaptive Planning. Delete the concatenated levels or accounts from Adaptive Planning, separately.Changed or deleted concatenations don't display in the Preview Data page. - Complete theTimepage:
Optie Omschrijving Default CalendarSelect aFiscal Schedule.(Optional) SelectFiscal Summaryfor more granular detail.Alternate Calendars(Optional) Select additionalFiscal Summaries.To add additional fiscal periods to Adaptive Planning, add them in Workday so that they sync through the Financial Planning Configuration Manager. Sections of the Time Administration page in Adaptive Planning lock when you use the manager. Use the Time loader in Adaptive Planning Design Integrations to update the Adaptive Planning calendar as needed. - Complete theCurrencypage:
Optie Omschrijving Corporate CurrencySelect a corporate currency.Reporting CurrencySelect a reporting currency.Currency Exchange Rate Type MappingMap planning exchanges rates to Workday:- Monthly Average
- End of Month
Translated Currency(Optional) Select up to 1 currency. The currencies available are the same as you selected for Corporate Currency and Reporting Currency.Enables you to load actuals data directly from Workday when the data is already in the currency.Example: You have CAD and EUR for reporting currencies. You can now select EUR for translated currency. You can load actuals in EUR for all levels, eliminating the need for converting the data to EUR.Account Translation Rule SetPrerequisites:- Select a currency forTranslated Currency.
Select a rule set for the translated currency.The currencies of Included companies in theLevelpage load automatically after each scheduled synchronization, or after a change to the planning configuration model. - Complete theVersionpage:
Optie Omschrijving Copy Data into ActualsSelect the default actuals version.Copy Data into Actuals VersionCreate the actuals sub-version. - Complete theActualspage:
Optie Omschrijving LedgerSelect a ledger book from Workday Financials.BookSelect a book code as a filter.End PeriodSelect an end period:- Current Period.
- Prior Period.
- Prior - 1 Period.
Actuals Start PeriodSelect a start period.Enable Balance Sheet(Optional) Select to load balance sheet accounts.LevelsFilters inherit from the metadata filters configured in the(Optional) Apply additional filters for levels to refine the actuals import.Levelpages.DimensionsFilters inherit from the metadata filters configured in the(Optional) Apply additional filters for dimensions to refine the actuals import.Dimensionspages.You can exclude dimensions you don't need for actuals import.Adding dimensions after activating automatically sets them asExclude. - Complete theRefresh Schedulepage for metadata and data:
Optie Omschrijving Refresh Frequency- Daily:We automatically select this option. You can change the refresh frequency.
- Weekly: Select the day of the week.
- Monthly: Select the day of the month.
Start TimeThe refresh start time.Load Actuals Data forCurrent Period.Current and Prior Period for closing consolidation activities.Time Zone(View only) The time zone for the refresh schedule. - Complete thePreview Datapage:
Optie Omschrijving Level(Optional) ClickPreviewto view the results, including your applied filters.Dimensions(Optional) ClickPreviewto view the results, including your applied filters. - On theSecuritypage, review and correct any security issues preventing you from completing the setup.We require you to:
- Give your ISU access to all of these data sources and report fields.
- Select the functional areas for all of these data sources and report fields on your API Client Scope.
- Your implementer completes theSelect Instance & Activatepage, activating your Adaptive Planning instance.We only display this page the first time your financial planning configuration manager loads for implementers. After the first time, we display theReview Changes and Activatepage, instead.
- Activate Scheduled Tasks for Planning Configuration Manageronly once, after the first time your implementer completes theSelect Instance & Activatepage.
- When you change activated applications, either activate or discard your changes on theReview Changes and Activatepage.
We automatically create custom reports in Workday that you can't edit or delete. We use these custom reports in the load to Adaptive Planning.
We append (Active) to the name of the financial planning configuration manager in Workday. You can view the statuses by accessing the
View Planning Applications
task.Metadata values load on your configured schedule. To troubleshoot orchestration errors, you can manually trigger the orchestration task from Design Integrations in Adaptive Planning.
In Adaptive Planning:
- Create formulas.
- Create additional accounts.
- Build your standard sheets.
- Create your financial plan, which you can publish back into Workday.
If you no longer want to automatically update Adaptive Planning, reset the orchestration task in Design Integrations in Adaptive Planning. Select
Reset Orchestration
to clear all of your Adaptive Planning integration data sources, loaders, and tasks. When you reset, the financial planning configuration manager no longer updates Adaptive Planning. Resetting doesn’t remove any data or metadata that already loaded.You can reregister for orchestration to:
- Reactivate the orchestration tasks.
- Enable your planning instance for configuration in the financial planning configuration manager in Workday.