Concept: Accounting Source
An accounting source is
a Workday configurable object that defines the steps, ingestion source, and rules for
processing input rows in Accounting Center.
You can use an accounting source to:
- Bring into Workday external transactions in incremental batches using the data management solution of Workday Prism Analytics.
- Enrich transactions with worktag mapping and unique calculations, and create custom validations.
- Manage rules to generate accounting for high-volume transactions generated by non-Workday sources.
- Transform external operational transactions into accounting journals.
- Create, modify, and maintain custom accounting rules and custom account posting rules to generate detailed and summarized accounting.
- Post summarized journals to your ledger.
- Orchestrate and have visibility over the entire data transformation process, and view, resolve, and reprocess errors.
You must have a table of external transactions prepared for enrichment and accounting
generation in Prism called an Ingestion Table. You can use an ingestion table to build
your enrichment and accounting rules beginning with the
Create Accounting
Source
task. As you create ingestion tables, consider:
- You can't use the same data source for more than 1 accounting source.
- Workday recommends you create an ingestion table as the ingestion source for the accounting source.