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Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Reference: Payroll Audit Reports

Reference: Payroll Audit Reports

These payroll audit reports enable you to review payroll audit exceptions for current or completed pay periods.
Report
Security
Description
My Payroll Audit Exceptions
Reports: Payroll Audit Exception (Assignee)
This report displays audit exceptions assigned to a specific user. The user can review details, update the status of an exception, comment, and reassign the exception.
Payroll Audit Exception Details
Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Pay Group (Audits)
 domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
You can only access this report by clicking
View Details
 on the
Payroll Audit Exceptions
 report.
This report only displays details for the selected pay period and pay group. Example: You run an audit for period 2019-02-01 to 2019-02-28 with a net greater than 500 audit rule and a balance period of 2019-01-01 to 2019-01-19. A worker has a 2019-01-01 to 2019-01-31 pay period result with net equal to 600 and a 2019-02-01 to 2019-02-28 pay period result with Net equal to 500. The report adds these values together but only displays the results and corresponding values for the 2019-02-01 to 2019-02-28 period on the
Results for Audit Period
 section.
The value in the
Total Audit Value for Audit Period
 column might not match the audit value for all associated results when:
  • Employees have results in 2 or more pay groups with different pay schedules such as midperiod pay group changes or multiple jobs in multiple pay groups.
  • The audit rule includes a balance period and either a pay component group or pay accumulator.
Workday displays a single line for each detail on the report when the details trigger the same audit rule. When you configure 1 audit rule with an AND condition using the same pay component in both of the rules and both rules trigger an exception, Workday displays identical lines on the report. Example: You create an audit rule with net pay less than100 and net pay greater than zero. Workday displays identical lines for both exceptions on the report.
Payroll Audit Exceptions
Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Pay Group (Audits)
 domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
This faceted report provides granular details that you can use to analyze and track the progress of audit exceptions that have manageable statuses.
Payroll Audit Exception Summary
Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Pay Group (Audits)
 domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
This report enables you to drill down on the status and severity values and view individual audit exception details. You can also configure this report as a worklet on the
Pay Cycle Command Center
 dashboard.
Payroll Totals by Category
Reports: Pay Calculation Results (Results - Reports based on Pay Component Security)
 in the Core Payroll functional area.
This standard report enables you to view pay components, separated by category, at the company level.
Verify your filters aren't set to prevent relevant fields on this report from displaying.
When audit rules either include worker eligibility or have a status of
Inactive
, Workday doesn't display the audit alert flag on the payroll result, the worker profile, or these reports:
  • Audit - Pay Calculation Results Comparison to a Prior Period (By Pay Group)
  • Audit - Pay Calculation Results Comparison to a Prior Period (By Worker)
  • Audit - Pay Calculation Results Comparison to a Prior Period (Period Summary)
  • Audit - Pay Calculation Results for a Period