Reference: Financial Management Tenant Configuration Guidelines

Cause

: You’ve assigned a large number of worktags to the target and offset of allocations.

Cause

: You haven't opened the new fiscal year and the ledger periods in the new fiscal year.

Open the fiscal year and the ledger periods.

Security:

Process: Period End

in the Common Financial Management functional area.

Cause

: You’ve not enabled

Always Go to Review Trackable Lines for Trackable Spend Category

on the

Edit Tenant Setup- Financials

task.

Cause

: You’ve enabled

Always Go to Review Trackable Lines for Trackable Spend Category

on the

Edit Tenant Setup- Financials

task.

When you don’t select the option, and also determine that you don’t want to track an asset during the first review of a trackable line, Workday saves you time by not reviewing trackable lines for all subsequent invoices or receipts created from the same line.To assign a default accounting treatment to assets, Workday uses:

The asset book rules for the first review.
The accounting treatment from the first review for subsequent reviews.

See Traceerbare regels voor activa beoordelen.

Cause

: You’ve not enabled

Create Multiple Assets from Purchase Order Service Line

on the

Edit Tenant Setup- Financials

task.

When you select this option, Workday will initiate an asset registration event for every partial receipt or supplier invoice you create from a single purchase order service line with a trackable spend category.

Cause

: You’ve enabled

Create Multiple Assets from Purchase Order Service Line

on the

Edit Tenant Setup- Financials

task.

When you disable this option, Workday creates only 1 asset for the first receipt or supplier invoice you create from a purchase order service line with a trackable spend category.

Cause

: You’ve configured a business process that automatically assigns asset information during asset registration.

Cause

: Workday doesn't remove the asset when you cancel the supplier invoice or receipt.

You must remove the assets manually.

See Activa afstoten.

Cause

: You're using average daily balance (ADB) 2.0.

Cause

: You're using 1 of these report data sources and filters combinations:

Journal Lines for Financial Reporting
report data source with
Journal Lines for Company and Reporting Time Period
data source filter.
Journals
data source with
Journal Filter
data source filter.

Cause

: You're using the

Prepaid Amortization Installment Lines

report field.

Cause

: You've scheduled a large number of periodic auto apply jobs to run in a short period of time.

When you schedule a large number of auto apply jobs to run in a short period, Workday will start queuing the jobs if it’s unable to complete an auto apply job before the next scheduled job starts. This can impact tenant performance.

Cause

: You are setting up bank integrations for processing settlements using the WPN - BACS Standard 19 Payment (Enhanced Performance) integration template with the

Conversion Service (Enable only if instructed by support)

integration service enabled.

You should only enable the

Conversion Service (Enable only if instructed by support)

integration service when instructed by support.

Cause

: You’ve enabled

Override Beneficiary name with Name on Account

on the

Integration Attributes

tab of the Integration System but the supplier doesn't require a different name in the

Name On Account

field on the

Settlement Bank Accounts

tab.

For suppliers that require a different name in the

Name On Account

field, enable the

Override Beneficiary name with Name on Account

in the Integration System and enter a name in the

Name On Account

field.

Cause

: You’ve removed the supplier from the

Operates as Supplier

field on the

Maintain Companies as Customers or Suppliers

task after you created an intercompany invoice and before running the settlement.

Cause

: You don't have a suspense account and associated account posting rules.

Cause

: You have selected several worktags when configuring

Include Worktag Types

in the

Retained Earnings

section of

Edit Tenant Setup – Financials

task and haven’t yet adopted the Redesigned Retained Earnings Reporting framework.

For information on adopting the Redesigned Retained Earnings Reporting framework, see Redesigned Retained Earnings Reporting.

Security:

Set Up: Tenant Setup – Financials

in the System functional area.

Access the
Edit Tenant Setup – Financials
task.
Configure no more than 3 different worktag types for the
Retained Earnings
section.

See Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - Financials.

Cause

: You haven’t configured default ledger accounts for interworktag payables and receivables account posting types.

Security:

Set Up: Accounting Rules

in the Common Financial Management functional area.

Access the
View Account Posting Rule Set
report.
Click
Edit Default Ledger Accounts
.
Select default posting rules from the
Default Ledger Account
prompt for InterWorktag Payables and InterWorktag Receivables.

See Rekeningboekingsregels instellen.

Cause

: You might be importing journals with a high volume of journal lines using the

Submit Accounting Journal

web service.

Cause

: You haven't specified values for all required fields, including these in your input file for the Accounting Journal Connector:

Ledger Type
Journal Source

See:

Reference: Accounting Journal Connector CSV File Format.
Reference: Accounting Journal Connector XML Schema.

Cause

: You may have incorrectly configured your business process security policy for the

Review

action, where only the Initiator was enabled for the

Action

step, wherein multiple groups, like Accountant, Accounting Managers were enabled to create journals.

Cause

: You are importing journals that may contain incorrect alternate ledger mappings using these options:

Create Journal with Errors = N
Submit = Y

Import journals using these options instead:

If alternate ledger accounts are properly mapped, Workday will create the journals with a

Created

status. You can then post the journals later.

Cause

:You haven’t configured a default ledger account for each account posting rule type.

Cause

: When you enabled summarization for payroll journals, you didn't configure the required worktags as optional summary dimensions.

Cause

: You haven't enabled payroll tax authority worktags on the effort certification.

Security:

Set Up: Enable Worktags

in the Common Financial Management and Worktags functional areas.

Access the
Maintain Worktag Usage
report.
In the
Effort Certification Dimension
category, click
Edit Worktag Usage
.
Add these worktag types:
Payroll City Authority
Payroll County Authority
Payroll School District Authority
Payroll State Authority

Cause

: You haven’t configured intercompany profiles for payroll companies.

Security:

Set Up: Tenant Setup

in the System functional area.

Access the
Edit Tenant Setup - Payroll
task.
If you've enabled the
Intercompany Payroll Accounting
option, confirm you’ve also configured the intercompany profiles between the applicable payroll companies.

See Intercompany profielen definiëren.

Cause

: You've not selected the necessary worktags in the

Optional Summary Dimensions

field on the

Maintain Payroll Journal Options

task.

Security:

Set Up: Payroll-Company Specific (Accounting)

in the Core Payroll functional area.

Access the
Maintain Payroll Journal Options
task.
Select the
Summarize Payroll Journals
check box.
If you've enabled the
Summarize Payroll Journals
option on the task, select the configured resulting worktag types from the
Optional Summary Dimensions
field.

See Steps: Set Up Payroll Accounting.

Cause

: You've used the

Get Companies Without Financials Dependencies

web service to load company information for a Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation only.

The

Get Companies Without Financials Dependencies

web service allows you to load a company without a company currency.

When you later decided to implement and run Payroll, the payroll run errors out as the company is missing a currency.

For companies without a currency, enter the company currency before running payroll.

See Create Custom Reports.

Cause

: You've configured too many optional summary dimensions on the

Maintain Payroll Journal Options

task.

Security:

Set Up: Payroll-Company Specific (Accounting)

in the Core Payroll functional area.

Access the
Maintain Payroll Journal Options
task.
If you've enabled the
Summarize Payroll Journals
option on the task, ensure that there aren’t more than 10 dimensions in the
Optional Summary Dimensions
field.

See Steps: Set Up Payroll Accounting.

Cause

: You’ve assigned a security group with a large number of users to a print-related business process step.

Cause

: The tenant-level worktag configuration only impacts activity balances and doesn't affect balances that you roll forward from prior years.

Cause

: While editing an invoice, you may have deleted the original splits on the invoice line and created new splits.

When you delete the original splits which are associated to the Purchase Order line splits, the link between the invoice line splits and the related Purchase Order line splits are broken.

Since the new splits are no longer linked to the original Purchase Order line splits, the Obligation journals can’t locate the ledger accounts to post to.

Cause

: You ran 2 concurrent jobs to open the same period for 2 different company hierarchies that have a common company included in both hierarchies.

Cause

: You have not enabled the

Enable Tax Point Date Configuration for Transaction Taxes

option on the

Edit Tenant Setup-Financials

task.

Security:

Set Up: Tenant Setup – Financials

in the System domain.