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Last Updated: 2025-10-17
Steps: Match Intercompany Journal Lines Manually

Steps: Match Intercompany Journal Lines Manually

You can manually match journal lines across 2 or more companies based on intercompany elimination rules, enabling you to focus on the unmatched differences when reconciling intercompany journal lines. You can use the
View Intercompany Reconciliation
 report to view intercompany differences due to unmatched intercompany journal lines.
  1. (Optional) Access the
    Set Up Journal Line Matching
     task.
    Select a
    Match On Type
     for intercompany matching. You can make intercompany matches in either the ledger currency or the transaction currency.
    Security:
    Set Up: Account Certifications
     domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
  2. Workday assigns a default match ID definition in this format: IC_OPEN_ITEM_MATCH-<unique ID>. We recommend creating a sequence generator ID to distinguish intercompany matching IDs from transaction matching IDs. You can select the sequence generator creation task directly from the
    ID Generator for Journal Line Intercompany Matching
     prompt on the
    Edit Tenant Setup - Financials
     task.
  3. (Optional) Access the
    Update Intercompany Journal Lines Match Status
     task to set intercompany journal lines as available or unavailable for manual matching.
    Security: These domains in the Financial Accounting functional area:
    • Process: Account Certifications - Intercompany Cancel All Match
    • Process: Account Certifications - Intercompany Create Match
  4. Access the
    Intercompany Matching on Journal Lines
     task.
    Security:
    Process: Account Certifications - Intercompany Create Match
     domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
  5. As you complete the task, consider:
    Option
    Description
    Companies
    Select 2 or more companies that you want to match journal lines across.
    Match On Type
    Workday populates this field based on the
    Match On Type
     selected in the
    Set Up Journal Line Matching
     task.
  6. Select the journal lines you want to match from the grid.
    When you attempt to match a line that has an intercompany association (or link) with a line that isn’t selected, Workday displays a warning message in this format for accounting and operational journals:
    SELECTED: [journal number if applicable][source operational transaction if applicable]; LINKED BUT NOT SELECTED: [linked journal number if applicable][linked source operational transaction if applicable]
    Workday only displays this warning message once per individual run of the task. When updating selections, we recommend that you either:
    • Take a record of the items listed in the warning message and update your selections accordingly.
    • Take a record of the items in your current grid selection and rerun the task with updated selections. The warning message will display again if applicable.
  7. (Optional) Expand the
    Select Intercompany Journal Lines
     section to adjust your search criteria.
    Enter new search criteria and select
    Get Journal Lines
    . Workday retrieves additional journal lines that you can match based on the new criteria.
Workday generates a match ID to record a match and displays journal lines included in a match. You can click on the match ID to view match details. Workday includes the match ID as both a prompt and a field in the
Find Journal Lines
 report and you can add these match IDs to your custom journal line reports.