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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Steps: Set Up Payroll Accounting Adjustments

Steps: Set Up Payroll Accounting Adjustments

Set up payroll accounting.
You can configure Workday to enable users to adjust accounting.
  1. Configure the
    Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments
    business process and security policy in the Core Payroll functional area.
    (Optional) You can create conditional steps for routing rules and alerts using these fields:
    • Change Reason Code
    • Date Requested
    • Days Since Initiated
  2. Edit Domain Security Policies.
    Configure these domains in the Core Payroll functional area for the initiator:
    • Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Worker (Results)
    • Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Pay Group (Accounting Results)
    • Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Organization (Accounting Results)
    • Reports: Pay Calculation Results (Results - Security based on Pay Component Security)
    • Set Up: Payroll (Calculations - Payroll Specific)
  3. (Optional) Include a questionnaire in the business process to capture supporting information about the adjustment, and then display the completed questionnaire on an approval step.
    1. Create a questionnaire.
    2. Add the
      Complete Questionnaire
      step to the
      Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments
      business process, using the
      Edit Business Process
      task.
      Workday recommends that you attach only 1 questionnaire.
    3. (Optional) For Payroll for the U.S., make the questionnaire response viewable in the approval step, using the
      Business Process
      Configure Supporting Information
      related action.
    4. Add the security groups on the approval or review steps of the
      Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments
      business process to the
      Questionnaire Results
      domain.
  4. (Optional) For Payroll for the U.S., to make payroll accounting adjustments for effort certification quicker and more accurate, add a
    Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments for Effort Certification
    action step to the
    Effort Certification
    business process.
    This step initiates the
    Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments
    business process.