Concept: Worktag Balancing for Payroll
Workday uses worktags to manage and track operational transactions, and to balance
operational journals.
You can use these types of balancing worktags for payroll:
- Company.
- Primary balancing worktag.
- Worktags with financial balancing rules.
- Organization types configured as balancing worktags.
- Optional balancing worktags.
Worktags in Payroll Transactions
- Accounting Journal
- You can autobalance journal lines with a balancing worktag. You can also specify a balancing worktag for the journal to generate additional due to and due from entries if the worktags on the line fails to balance. The payroll transactions don't use a financial balancing rule because they already create entries on both sides of the transaction.
- If you don't set up a worktag to balance with worktag balancing you haven't specified a header worktag, Workday displays an error message on your journal lines and doesn't submit the journal.
Optional Balancing Worktags
Optional balancing worktags:
- Automatically generates offsetting journal entries for payroll accounting commitment and obligation transactions.
- Works with or without a primary financial balancing worktag.
- Doesn't require journals to balance in these dimensions, and these worktags are optional on a transaction.
- Doesn't trigger retroactive processing.
The
Optional Balancing Worktag
field displays in these commitment
accounting transactions:- Payroll Commitments
- Payroll Commitment Adjustments
- Payroll Commitment Liquidations
- Payroll Obligations
- Payroll Obligation Adjustments
- Payroll Obligation Liquidations
The
Optional Balancing Worktag
field displays in these
operational journals for commitment accounting:- Fringe Benefit Commitments Journal
- Fringe Benefit Obligations Journal
- Payroll Commitments Journal
- Payroll Commitment Liquidation Journal
- Payroll Obligations Journal
- Payroll Obligation Liquidation Journal