Concept: Costing Allocation Sources for Journal Lines

You can view all of the costing allocations that generated an earnings journal line on a pay result for these journals:

Actuals
Current Accounting
Forward Accruals

When you view these journals, the

Costing Source

column displays:

The applied costing allocation rule that generated the earnings journal line.
Only for journals calculated on or after September 20, 2025.

Users need access to one of these security domains (on the

Journal Line

business object) to view the

Costing Source

column on pay results:

Process: Journals - View
Process: Run Batch Payroll Accounting
Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Worker (Results)
View: Organization Journals

Click the link in the

Costing Source

column to view details on the

View Costing Allocation

page. Workday can display costing allocations associated with these features based on your configuration:

Intercompany Accounting
Salary Over the Cap (SOC)

These costing allocations display only if you enable salary over the cap when payroll is processed for the related journal line, even if the feature is now not enabled.

Workday displays questionnaires if you configure them on the Assign Costing Allocation business process.

For reporting, you can use the

Costing Source

report field on the Journal Line business object in custom reports to trace journal lines to the assigned costing allocation that generated the costing distribution. When you use the

Costing Source

field in a custom report, Workday displays a

Costing Source

column with links to the

View Costing Allocation

page for each journal line.

Workday also displays the

Costing Source

column to the

Payroll Accounting by Period/Pay Group

and

Payroll Accounting by Company/Period

reports for journal lines generated by assigned costing allocations.

For transactions that include multiple journals, including intracompany transactions, users must have access to the full set of journals in the transaction to open the costing source link from the report. If they don’t have access, the column can still display, but they see a message that they don’t have security permissions to view the costing allocation.

Worktag columns display dynamically and reflect the setup you configured using the

Maintain Worktag Usage

task for Payroll Costing Allocation.

Primary Worktag Types

Worktags you defined as primary display in their own dedicated column.

Example: You define

Cost Center

as a primary work tag. The

Cost Center

column displays on the

View Costing Allocation

page.

If you didn't define any primary worktags, any additional worktags display in the Worktags column.

Additional Worktag Types

Worktags you defined as additional display in the same column.

Example: You define

Fund

and

Company

as additional worktag types.

Fund

and

Company

both display in the

Additional Worktags

column.