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Last Updated: 2026-04-17
Calculate Equity Pickup Results in AP&C

Calculate Equity Pickup Results in AP&C

  • Define equity pickup rules.
  • Verify that the current ledger period status of the investor company isn't:
    • Closed
      .
    • Close In Progress
       for the
      Equity Pickup
       journal source.
    • Not Available
      .
  • Ensure that equity pickup journals for earlier fiscal periods are in a
    Posted
     state before running equity pickup for subsequent fiscal periods to avoid processing errors.
  • Configure the
    Equity Pickup Event
     business process and security policy in the Financial Accounting functional area so that you can approve journal entries for equity pickup before posting them to target and offset ledger accounts of investor companies.
  • Security:
    Process: Equity Pickup
     domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
Record the equity earnings of a consolidated subsidiary onto the books of the parent company in Adaptive Planning and Consolidation (AP&C).
When you record equity pickup results in the base currency of a subsidiary, the journal entry displays in the subsidiary currency.
  1. Access the
    Equity Pickup
     task.
  2. As you complete the task, consider:
    Option Description
    Company
    Select the investor company or company hierarchy for recording equity pickup results.
    Equity Pickup Rules
    When you run equity pickup for 2 rules that use the same source and profit or loss accounts, Workday calculates equity for both.
    If you select multiple rules, Workday displays results for each rule when you run the task.
    The
    Equity Pickup
     task performs equity pickup for all rules simultaneously. It doesn't calculate them sequentially.
    Fiscal Period
    Ensure that periods are open for all investor companies to post equity pickup results.
    Source Book
    (Optional) Select a default source book for equity pickup. Leave blank to select source journals from the blank book code.
    Target Book Code
    (Optional) Select a book code to assign to the equity pickup journal entries. Leave blank to post equity pickup results to the blank book code.
    Post to Subsidiary Companies
    Select to post the equity pickup journal entries to all investor companies. If you clear the check box, Workday won't create operational journals and sets the equity pickup
    Status
     to
    Complete
    .
    Account Translation Rule Set
    Select the rule to translate accounts in a subsidiary onto the parent books.
  3. (Optional) From the related actions menu of the
    Equity Pickup
     business process and security policy in the Financial Accounting functional area, select
    View Accounting
     to display the equity pickup
    Journal Entry
    .
    • When there's a pending approval step, the business process sets the:
      • Equity pickup status to
        In Progress
        .
      • Operational journal status to
        Pro forma
        .
    • If there's no business process or you approved the equity pickup results, the:
      • Equity pickup status is
        Approved
        .
      • Operational journal status is
        Posted
        .
    • If there's no accounting associated with the equity pickup results, the:
      • Equity pickup status is
        Complete
        .
      • The equity pickup process doesn't create an operational journal.
  4. (Optional) To cancel the results of an equity pickup run, find the results that you generated and select
    Cancel
     from the
    Equity Pickup Result
     related actions menu.
When you process equity pickup, it creates a result for each investor company that you run the
Equity Pickup
 task for. If you run the task for a hierarchy with multiple investor companies, Workday creates separate equity pickup results for each investor company and includes the:
  • Percentage the investor company owns in the subsidiary.
  • Source amount that Workday uses to calculate equity pickup.
  • Provision amount that the equity picks up.
If you selected an ownership change adjustment ledger account on the equity pickup rule, Workday displays an
Ownership Change Details
 tab on the result. You can use this tab to drill into how Workday calculates your equity pickup.
  • Workday calculates direct ownership change adjustment amounts based on the:
    • Change in ownership percentage from the current period to the prior period.
    • Opening source amount at the beginning of the period multiplied by the ownership change amount.
  • Workday calculates indirect ownership change adjustment amounts based on the:
    • Current period ownership percentage.
    • Source amount deriving from the direct ownership change adjustment result of the subsidiary on the same equity pickup run. Workday multiplies this value by the current period ownership percentage.
    When no indirect ownership changes occur during the current period, Workday displays values of zero.
Use the
Find Equity Pickup Results
 report to view previous equity pickup results.