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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2025-10-17
Concept: How Transactions Get Balancing Worktags

Concept: How Transactions Get Balancing Worktags

After you enable required worktag balancing, transactions that generate accounting must balance by worktag.
This table lists the balancing option Workday uses to determine the balancing worktag for the offset journal line of applicable transactions:
Always Inherits from Predecessor Transaction
Always Inherits from Transaction
Determined by Balancing Rules and Rule Set
Balancing Worktag Specified in Transaction
Assign asset accounting
Depreciation
Ad hoc bank transaction
Allocation
You can specify the balancing worktag in the transaction header. Workday automatically creates due to and due from entries for the other balancing worktag values in the journal. Alternatively, you can manually create journal entries to balance the journal by balancing worktag.
Customer payment deposit
Fringe benefit commitment
Ad hoc payment
Allocation pool
You can specify the balancing worktag on the allocation plan and allocation pool.
Workday balances journal entries using the worktags on the source allocation pool. When you don't enter worktags on the source allocation pool, Workday uses the worktags from the allocation plan.
Workday automatically creates due to and due from entries for the other balancing worktag values on the journal.
Customer refund
Fringe benefit commitment liquidation
Customer cash sale
Asset disposal
Expense credit card payment
Fringe benefit obligation
Customer invoice
Asset transfer
Expense payment
Fringe benefit obligation liquidation
Customer invoice adjustment
Asset reclassification
Intercompany payment
Grants transactions
Customer invoice writeoff
Bank account transfer
Intercompany receipt
Payroll commitment
Expense report
Journal entries
You can specify the balancing worktag in the transaction header. Workday automatically creates due to and due from entries for the other balancing worktag values in the journal. Alternatively, you can manually create journal entries to balance the journal by balancing worktag.
Payment return
Payroll commitment liquidation
Fringe benefit
Procurement card transaction verifications
You specify the balancing worktag in the
Create Corporate Credit Card Billing Account
task.
Payroll payment
Payroll accrual
Payroll result
Roll forward year-end balances
Prenote payment
Payroll forward accrual
Supplier invoice
Prepaid spend amortization
Payroll obligation
Supplier invoice adjustment
Procurement card load
Payroll obligation liquidation
Supplier invoice payment
Purchase order
Receipt accrual
Requisition
Revenue recognition
Reverse depreciation
Supplier contract