Concept: Operational Journal Reversals
Workday creates operational journals automatically when you complete operational transactions. When you cancel an approved operational transaction, you can generate an operational journal reversal. Reversal journals provide an audit trail of journal entries, enabling you to comply with legal requirements in countries where you can't modify or cancel posted journals.
Workday creates reversals of operational journals when you select the
Always Reverse Operational and Noncontrolling Interest Journals
check box in the Journal Options
section on the Edit Tenant Setup - Financials
task.You can also consolidate payroll operational journals by selecting the
Summarize Payroll Journals
check box on the Maintain Payroll Journal Options
task.Canceled Off-Cycle and On-Cycle Payroll Results
When you cancel an off-cycle or on-cycle payroll result and configure journal reversals and journal summarization, Workday:
- Keeps original operational and original summary journals inPostedstatus.
- Reverses and copies original operational journal.
- Summarizes reversal journal and changes status toPosted.
- Changes copied operational journal status toCreated.
When you cancel an off-cycle or on-cycle payroll result and configure journal reversals but not journal summarization, Workday:
- Keeps original operational journal inPostedstatus.
- Reverses and copies original operational journal.
- Changes reversal journal status toPosted.
- Changes copied operational journal status toCreated.
When you cancel an off-cycle or on-cycle payroll result and configure journal summarization but not journal reversals, Workday:
- Keeps original operational journal and summary journal inPostedstatus.
- Changes summarization journal status toCreated.
When you cancel an off-cycle or on-cycle payroll result and haven't configured journal reversals or journal summarization, Workday changes the status of the operational journal from
Posted
to Created
.