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Last Updated: 2025-11-14
Reference: Asset Statuses

Reference: Asset Statuses

Workday updates the status of assets as you perform lifecycle events on them.
The same asset can have different statuses in different asset books.
Status
Description
Examples
Pending Registration
Workday creates an asset through a business process workflow, and you haven't completed the asset registration.
Workday creates an asset from a supplier invoice, and:
  • Sets its status to
    Pending Registration
    .
  • Creates a task in My Tasks for the business assets tracking specialist to complete the asset registration.
Registered
You've configured the depreciation profile on the asset to place assets in service
Manually or When Issued
and you either:
  • Register the asset manually.
  • Complete the asset registration.
Your company purchases a new building. You register the building at the time of purchase, and place it in service when you obtain a certificate of occupancy.
In Service
The asset is in service. You can record depreciation on the asset.
Workday assigns this status to an asset when you either:
  • Place the asset in service manually.
  • Complete the asset registration or register the asset manually, when you've configured its depreciation profile to place assets in service
    Upon Acquisition
    .
  • Resume depreciation, when the asset had a status of
    In Service
    before its suspension.
  • Remove the worker on the asset.
  • Register the asset with the
    Register Assets
    EIB and specify an in-service date.
You can only record depreciation on assets that have a depreciation profile. You can’t place expensed or nondepreciable assets in service manually, but they can have a status of
In Service
when you issue them and then remove the worker.
You place heavy machinery in service without issuing it to a worker.
Issued
Workday assigns this status to an asset when you either:
  • Issue it to a worker manually.
  • Resume depreciation, when the asset had a status of
    Issued
    before its suspension.
You can issue all types of assets to a worker. They don't have to be depreciable. When the asset is depreciable, you can record depreciation on the asset.
You issue a laptop to a worker.
Disposed
You fully dispose of the asset.
You fully dispose the remaining amount on a partially disposed asset with a status of
In Service
. Workday changes the status of the asset to
Disposed
.
Removed
You remove the asset.
You cancel an invoice and remove the assets that Workday registered from the invoice.
Out of Service
You suspend the asset depreciation.
You suspend the depreciation on a piece of heavy machinery while you repair it.
Used by Composite
The asset is a component of a nondiscrete composite asset.
You register a nondiscrete composite asset comprising 2 component assets. Workday changes the status of the 2 component assets to
Used by Composite
.