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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-10-03
View Assets

View Assets

You can view assets to gain insight into:
  • Accounting.
  • Custodian activities.
  • Depreciation details.
  • Lifecycle events.
  • Process history.
  1. Access the
    Find Assets
    standard report.
    When you click the
    Asset ID
    , Workday displays the
    View Business Asset
    report for the selected asset.
  2. As you review the header information and tabs, consider:
    Option Description
    General
    You see the preceding asset ID when you transfer assets:
    • From another company.
    • Multiple times.
    Custodian
    You establish custodianship when you register, issue, transfer, or dispose of the asset.
    Cost Detail
    View cost activity for the original asset acquisition cost and all asset lifecycle events that impact asset cost. Also displays net zero cost activity for issues and transfers when you change location or worktags.
    Lifecycle
    Click the
    Event
    link to drill down to details for corresponding transactions, including both historic and in-progress business process events.
    Process History
    Lists events for every action taken on the asset since its creation.
    You can't make changes to assets when other events are in progress.
  3. Workday displays these additional tabs when you enter the related information. As you review these additional tabs for capital assets, consider:
    Option Description
    Historical Information
    Includes information for depreciable capital assets that you transferred from another platform.
    Depreciation later recorded in Workday is based on the cost less historical accumulated depreciation and depreciates over the remaining useful life of the asset. The
    Depreciation Start Date
    on this tab is the date that the depreciation in Workday starts.
    When you view an asset in a nonaccounting asset book, historical accumulated depreciation includes historical bonus depreciation from a previous platform.
    Books
    After you assign asset accounting, Workday displays the
    Books
    tab. View a summary of the depreciation attributes and depreciation schedules for each book that contains a capital asset.
    To view assets by book, click the asset book name in the
    Book View
    column to display the
    View Asset by Book
    report.
    Depreciation Summary
    View a list of depreciation lines by period. Workday bases the depreciation or amortization schedule on the depreciation profile for the depreciable capital asset.
    If the spend category for the trackable asset is intangible, this tab displays the amortization schedule.
    Workday generates depreciation and amortization based on the depreciation profile associated with a depreciable capital asset.
    Period zero displays the historical depreciation on the asset before you register it in Workday. Example: You register an asset with accumulated depreciation using the
    Register Asset
    EIB.
    Depreciation Detail
    Displays transaction details for each depreciation line in the
    Depreciation Summary
    tab, including depreciation adjustments by period. Workday generates depreciation adjustments for lifecycle events when the date falls within a period where Workday has already processed depreciation. Click the
    Recorded On
    link to see details about the transaction that created the depreciation expense line.