A company needs to comply with both ASC 842 and IFRS 16 leasing standards.
When creating an alternate supplier contract to comply with IFRS 16, what will determine the appropriate accounting for the installment expense recognition?
Answer : A
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The alternate supplier contract's accounting method determines how Workday accounts for its installment expense recognition. Alternate contracts allow the same underlying lease arrangement to be evaluated under different accounting standards, accounting methods, and book codes. Therefore, the IFRS 16 alternate contract must carry the accounting method that represents the IFRS treatment.
The original supplier contract remains the source for supplier invoices, but its accounting method does not override the accounting treatment assigned to the alternate contract. This separation is necessary because ASC 842 and IFRS 16 can produce different expense-recognition patterns. For example, IFRS 16 generally treats long-term operating leases as finance leases, resulting in interest and depreciation or amortization components rather than the single straight-line lease expense commonly associated with an ASC 842 operating lease.
The interest rate is an input used in present-value and interest calculations, but it does not independently select the accounting framework or expense-recognition methodology. Similarly, the original contract's type and accounting method govern the original contract's treatment, not the alternate contract's parallel accounting.
Consequently, Workday evaluates the accounting method assigned directly to the alternate supplier contract when generating the applicable installment expense-recognition accounting.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Lease Accounting; topics: Alternate Supplier Contracts, Expense Recognition, and ASC 842 and IFRS 16.
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What task will you use to specify a bank account's usage?
Answer : B
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
Bank-account usage is maintained directly on the bank account through Edit Bank Account. The usage values identify the business processes for which the account is eligible, such as supplier payments, customer receipts, payroll payments, expense payments, ad hoc transactions, or other settlement activities. Workday uses these selections to restrict prompts and ensure that settlement processes choose accounts authorized for the required purpose.
Set Up New Bank Account is not the delivered maintenance task named in the choices, and a separately named Define Bank Account Usage task is not required. Modify Bank Account Information is also not the applicable Workday task. After accessing Edit Bank Account, the administrator can maintain primary or additional usage, accepted payment types and currencies, settlement integration details, reconciliation settings, and other controls permitted by security. Usage must be designed with bank-routing rules and company settlement requirements because selecting a usage does not automatically make the account the default for every transaction. The account must also remain active and available to the owning organization. Consequently, Edit Bank Account is the correct task for specifying or changing how the bank account may be used.
Official Workday reference: Workday - Steps: Set Up Banking; topics: Edit Bank Account and bank-account usage.
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Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
Your company just implemented Workday. Several users in the finance department cannot access certain delivered financial reports they need to perform their month-end close tasks. Additionally, some journal entries that were manually created are not being automatically routed for approval as expected. As a member of the security team, you need to investigate and resolve these issues.
Why are the users unable to access the reports?
Answer : D
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
Delivered Workday reports are securable items governed by security domains. A user can access a delivered financial report only when a security group to which the user belongs has permission on the domain securing that report and the user's organizational constraints permit access to the relevant company data. If several finance users cannot open specific delivered reports, the first technical cause to investigate is missing domain access.
Account activation would prevent the users from accessing Workday generally, not selectively block only certain reports. Report design quality affects usability and output but does not determine whether the report appears or can be launched. A scheduled report can normally also be run interactively when the user has permission; scheduling time is not the access-control mechanism. The security administrator should use View Security for Securable Item on each affected report, identify the protecting domain and permitted security groups, and then confirm group membership or role assignment for the users. Separately, the journal-routing problem must be examined through the Accounting Journal Event business-process definition and its step conditions. The report-access issue itself, however, is explained by the users lacking access to the security domain that secures the standard report.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Report Security; topics: security domains, delivered reports, and domain security policies.
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Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
A company is a global organization that needs to comply with multiple accounting standards. The company has configured their account posting rules so that certain supplier invoices will comply with U.S. GAAP rules but will not comply with IFRS.
In addition to the supplier invoices, what transaction is necessary for the IFRS book to achieve compliance?
Answer : D
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The supplier invoices generate operational accounting that follows the configured U.S. GAAP account posting rules. Workday ordinarily records operational journals with a blank book code, placing them in the Common Book. Because IFRS requires a different accounting result, the organization must record only the difference through an adjusting accounting journal assigned to an IFRS-specific book code.
The IFRS reporting book can then combine the blank-book-code operational activity with the IFRS adjustment book code. This produces the IFRS result without duplicating the underlying supplier invoice. A U.S. GAAP-specific adjustment is unnecessary because the operational transaction already represents that treatment. Assigning the adjustment to the blank book code would contaminate the common operational basis and make the IFRS difference appear in every book containing blank activity. Creating parallel U.S. GAAP and IFRS adjustments would also duplicate accounting rather than isolate the reporting-basis difference. Therefore, the required transaction is one adjusting journal using the IFRS-specific book code and the ledger accounts needed to reverse or reclassify the U.S. GAAP treatment. This is the central Workday multi-book design: common operational entries are recorded once, while standard-specific differences are held in separate adjustment book codes.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Multi-book; topics: blank book code, common book, and IFRS adjustment journals.
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You need to find balances due to several suppliers for multiple periods.
What report will you use?
Answer : D
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
Supplier Activity Summary is the delivered report intended to analyze supplier-account activity and balances across a selected company and period range. It summarizes beginning balances, invoices, adjustments, payments, and ending amounts due, allowing the accountant to compare several suppliers over multiple periods and drill into supporting activity where necessary.
Suppliers by Company identifies supplier relationships but does not provide the required period-based accounts-payable balances. Find Suppliers is a master-data search and is therefore unsuitable for analyzing transaction activity. Find Journal Lines can locate accounting entries, but it requires the user to reconstruct supplier balances from journal detail and may not present the supplier-account lifecycle as efficiently as the purpose-built summary. Supplier Activity Summary is secured through the applicable supplier-account reporting domains, so the user's company access and role constraints still determine which balances are visible. The report provides the appropriate operational view for identifying amounts due, reviewing payment and adjustment movements, and reconciling supplier subledger activity to the general ledger. Consequently, Supplier Activity Summary is the correct report for the stated requirement.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Supplier Accounts; topics: Supplier Activity Summary and supplier balances by period.
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As the accountant of your organization, you notice there are operational journals posted with missing or incorrect worktags. The corresponding fiscal period is now closed.
How can you fix the accounting?
Answer : A
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The operational journals are already posted, and the fiscal period is closed. Workday preserves the source-document and journal audit trail, so the accountant should not attempt to edit posted operational journal lines directly. The controlled correction is for the Accounting Manager to change the applicable ledger period status to Adjustments Only and then create adjusting accounting journals that correct the missing or incorrect worktags.
Adjustments Only permits authorized adjustment activity while continuing to prevent normal operational posting into the closed period. Posting the correction only in the next period would leave the original period's dimensional reporting inaccurate and could distort certified or published balances. Fix Operational Journals with Errors applies to operational journals that remain in error; it does not rewrite journals that have already posted with valid ledger accounts but incorrect worktags. Fully reopening the period and unposting every affected operational journal is unnecessarily disruptive and can break the relationship between the source transactions and their accounting. A targeted adjustment provides the appropriate control, period accuracy, and audit evidence. After the correcting journals are approved and posted, the Accounting Manager can return the ledger period to the required closed status.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Accounting Journals; topics: closed periods, adjustments-only status, and correcting journals.
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Company D and Company E process direct intercompany transactions, and both companies would like to automatically record intercompany receipts. Company D billed Company E for services provided, and Company E settled the invoice. However, Company D's accountant noticed the receipt has not been posted.
What is the most likely cause?
Answer : C
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The automatic receipt configuration is evaluated from the company performing the settlement. Company E is the paying company because it settled the supplier-side obligation created from Company D's customer invoice. Therefore, Company E's intercompany profile relationship with Company D must have Record Intercompany Receipt enabled.
Workday defines this option as generating an intercompany receipt after the current company settles an intercompany transaction received from the company identified in the profile's To relationship. In this scenario, Company E is the current company and Company D is the company from which the intercompany transaction originated. If Company E has not selected the automatic receipt option for Company D, settlement can complete without the corresponding receipt being generated and posted for Company D.
Company D's profile setting in option A represents the reverse transaction direction. A missing intercompany relationship is less likely because the companies successfully processed and settled a direct intercompany invoice. Similarly, the required company-as-customer and company-as-supplier configuration must already exist for the underlying direct intercompany invoice flow to operate. The failure specifically concerns the post-settlement receipt, making Company E's automatic receipt setting the controlling configuration.
Official Workday reference: Workday - Define Intercompany Profiles; topics: Record Intercompany Receipt and Direct Intercompany Activities.
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