View Summarized Journals

Security: Prism Datasets: Create
in the Prism Analytics functional area.

You can review the link between detailed accounting lines and their associated summary journals, and for each transaction drill into each journal.

Access the

View Accounting Source

report.

Select an accounting source for which you want to view summarized journals.

From the related actions menu of the accounting source, select

Accounting Source

View Implementation

In the

Output Dataset

column, click the Summary and Detailed Accounting Reference dataset. This dataset maps detailed accounting to their respective summary journals.

On the

View Dataset

page, select the

Fields

tab, and click the

Table View

icon.

Review some of the fields displayed:

Accounting Center Batch

: Indicates the batch number for the detailed transactions.

Accounting Center Batch Run

: Indicates the Detailed Accounting Batch Run and not the Summarized Accounting Batch Run completed by the batch run.

Batch Run Column in Summary and Detailed Accounting Reference dataset refers to the Detailed Accounting Batch Run, not Summarization Batch Run.

Accounting Source Snapshot

: Click the snapshot to view the accounting source configuration that generated this line in detailed accounting. The format of this value is:

Name of the Accounting Source

Effective Date

Last Updated

For each transaction, scroll to the

Journal Entry

column and click to display the journal.

Access to the

Journal Line

column is restricted.

Workday displays the summarized journals that are an aggregation of detailed accounting for the selected company, year, and period.

If you've enabled the

Enable Multicurrency

option on the

Edit Accounting Source

task, Workday groups summarized journals by the

Primary Currency Rate Type

, ensuring that journal entries with different rate types appear as distinct summary records.

Build a summarized dataset that you want to use for reporting.

Build composite or custom matrix reports to drill from summarized accounting to underlying detailed accounting and enriched transactions. See Set Up Grouping and Summarizing for Matrix Reports and Steps: Create Composite Reports.