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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Pooled Assets

Concept: Pooled Assets

Pooled assets are groups of similar tangible items that you register and track as a single asset in Workday. Example: 100 flash drives. Pooling assets is useful for tracking multiple low-value assets and enables you to keep your asset register clean and maintainable. You can pool assets that you register manually or assets that Workday registers from lines on receipts or supplier invoices. You can't pool assets that you create by capitalizing project transactions.
Pooled assets follow the asset book rules, and are subject to the
Spend
account posting rule. You can place pooled assets in service, and depreciate a capitalized pooled asset as a single asset. Asset lifecycle events equally apply to each asset included in the pool.

Automatic and Manual Asset Pooling

You can set up asset pooling rules for Workday to automatically pool assets that meet your criteria.
You can manually pool assets:
  • When you review trackable lines on a receipt or supplier invoice.
  • When you register assets with the
    Register Assets
    task.

Pooled and Composite Assets

You can register:
  • Discrete composite assets that consume an entire asset pool.
  • Nondiscrete composite assets that consume an asset pool fully or partially.
The pooled assets must meet the criteria for inclusion in a composite asset.