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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Steps: Set Up and Update Journal Sources in AP&C

Steps: Set Up and Update Journal Sources in AP&C

You can indicate where or why you created your journals by defining journal sources. You can then use journal source definitions to report on and analyze journals.
Tasks related these areas prompt you to enter a journal source at runtime:
  • Accounting Journals
  • Beginning Balance
  • Beginning Balance for Noncontrolling Interest
  • Equity Pickup
Tasks related to these areas rely on journal source mapping to operational tasks:
  • Allocation Journal Entry Source
  • External Consolidation Data Journal Entry Source
  • Noncontrolling Interest Journal Entry Source
  • Revaluation Journal Entry Source
  2. Access the
    Maintain Journal Source Mapping to Operational Transactions
     task.
    Workday automatically creates journals for operational tasks.
    To specify which journal source Workday assigns to operational journals:
    • Define the journal source by task type.
    • Remap the journal source that Workday applies to journal entries for all new tasks that you process.
    Security:
    Set Up: Journal Source
     domain in the Common Financial Management functional area
  3. Access the
    Mass Update Journal Source
     task.
    Update the journal source on existing operational journals by task type. Workday recommends that you remap the journal source for all new transactions of the given type. Update all existing operational journals for that task type.
    Security:
    Set Up: Journal Source
     domain in the Common Financial Management functional area.
You can assign journal sources to accounting journals. Workday automatically assigns a journal source to operational tasks as you enter them.