Workday Pro Record-to-Report (R2R) Certification Workday-Record-to-Report Exam Questions

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Question 1

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?

ACompany D did not select the option to record receipts automatically from Company E via the Edit Company Intercompany Profile.

BCompany D does not have an intercompany relationship defined with Company E.

CCompany E did not select the option to record receipts automatically from Company D via the Edit Company Intercompany Profile.

DCompany D is not defined as a customer for supplier Company E to settle invoices.

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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Question 2

After an acquisition, a new legal entity needs to be set up.

What should you create?

AA new company organization.

BA new cost center organization.

CNew worktags that represent the acquisition.

DA new reorganization before setting up the new cost center.

Answer : A

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

A newly acquired legal entity that will maintain its own statutory books must be represented in Workday as a Company organization. Company is the financial organization type that owns accounting transactions, ledgers, fiscal schedules, currencies, account sets, bank accounts, tax registrations, and financial reporting responsibility. It supplies the legal-entity boundary required for transaction processing and statutory reporting.

A cost center represents managerial responsibility or an area in which costs are accumulated; it does not create a separate legal accounting entity. Worktags can classify transactions and support reporting, but they do not own a ledger or replace the Company organization. A reorganization is used to change relationships or assignments among existing organizations and is not the prerequisite for establishing the acquired legal entity. After creating the Company, administrators assign its accounting details, establish the actuals ledger and periods, configure security roles, and connect it to the appropriate company hierarchy for consolidated reporting. The company may then participate in intercompany profiles, settlements, translations, and consolidations. Creating a Company organization is therefore the first structural action that correctly represents the acquisition in Workday's Foundational Data Model and establishes the boundary within which the new entity's financial transactions will be recorded.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Financial Accounting Setup; topics: company organization and legal-entity financial accounting setup.

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Question 3

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?

AThe users' Workday accounts have not been activated since the system went live.

BThe reports are poorly designed.

CThe reports are scheduled to run only at specific times that do not coincide with the users' access attempts.

DThe users do not have access to the security domain, which secures the standard report.

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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Question 4

Company A has created an accounting journal to move costs to Company B. The journal is in error status, as there are missing ledger accounts for intercompany payables and receivables.

What should you do?

AEdit intercompany profiles and ensure Bank Accounts are selected.

BEnsure the Maintain Companies as Customers or Suppliers configuration is completed.

CConfirm the payables and receivables account posting rules are configured for Intercompany transactions.

DEnsure the account posting rules for intercompany payables and intercompany receivables have been configured.

Answer : D

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

An accounting journal that moves costs between Company A and Company B must balance independently by company. Workday generates intercompany receivable and payable lines to represent the due-from and due-to positions. The ledger accounts for those system-generated lines come from the Intercompany Receivables and Intercompany Payables account posting rules. If either rule lacks a valid default account or matching condition, the journal cannot derive the required ledger account and enters error status.

Bank-account selection on an intercompany profile is relevant to settlement, not to balancing an accounting journal. Maintaining companies as customers or suppliers is required for direct intercompany invoicing but is not the configuration used to derive balancing lines on a manual intercompany accounting journal. Option C is imprecise because separate payables and receivables posting rules must be configured for the intercompany purpose; the explicit requirement in D identifies both controlling rules. The finance administrator should configure valid ledger accounts, applicable dimensions, and resulting affiliate worktags, then reprocess the journal. Correct intercompany posting rules ensure that each company's entry balances and that the reciprocal positions can be reconciled, settled, and eliminated during consolidation.

Official Workday reference: Workday - Setup Considerations: Direct Intercompany Activities; topics: intercompany payables and receivables account posting rules.

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Question 5

Your company reports profit and loss under different accounting standards. Under US GAAP, prepaid expenses are recorded as a current asset. However, under IFRS, the company must expense immediately. Someone posted an operational transaction resulting in the use of a prepaid expense account in line with US GAAP.

What should the next step be?

AUnpost and then edit the original transaction to include the book code for IFRS.

BUnpost the original transaction and create two manual journals for each accounting treatment.

CEnter an accounting journal to adjust by selecting the IFRS book code and the appropriate ledger accounts to expense the costs.

DEnter an accounting journal to adjust by selecting the IFRS book code as a balancing worktag.

Answer : C

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

The operational transaction has correctly recorded the U.S. GAAP treatment in the prepaid-expense asset account and, as an operational journal, normally carries a blank book code. To produce the different IFRS treatment, the accountant creates a manual accounting journal assigned to the IFRS-specific book code. That journal uses the appropriate ledger accounts to reduce or reverse the prepaid asset and recognize the expense required by IFRS.

The original transaction should not be unposted merely to add an IFRS book code because the source document represents the common operational activity and must remain available to both reporting bases. Creating two replacement journals would unnecessarily recreate accounting that already exists. Book Code is a journal-header accounting attribute, not a balancing worktag, so option D misstates the configuration. With the adjustment posted to the IFRS book code, the U.S. GAAP book can report the blank operational accounting, while the IFRS book combines blank activity with the IFRS adjustment. This preserves a single source transaction, isolates the reporting-basis difference, and supports clean reconciliation between books. Therefore, entering an IFRS-coded accounting journal with the appropriate expense and prepaid ledger accounts is the correct next step.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Multi-book; topics: Common Book operational accounting and IFRS adjustment journals.

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Question 6

Your healthcare company is restructuring its departments to improve patient care coordination.

Why would they set up the new departments as organizations?

ATo schedule patient appointments within each department

BTo track medical supplies inventory for each department

CTo manage employee performance reviews by department

DTo structure the hospital's workforce and financial reporting

Answer : D

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

Creating the new departments as Workday organizations provides a governed structure for workforce assignments, managerial responsibility, security, business-process routing, and financial reporting. Depending on the design, supervisory organizations can represent management reporting relationships, while cost centers or custom organizations can classify financial responsibility and support departmental reporting. The organization hierarchy enables aggregated analysis at hospital, division, and department levels.

Patient appointment scheduling and clinical inventory management are application-specific operational processes and are not the primary reason to establish Workday organizations. Performance reviews can use organizational context, but that is only one downstream use and does not describe the broader structural purpose. The healthcare company is restructuring departments specifically to improve coordination, so the organization model should align workers, managers, financial responsibility, and access controls with the new operating design. Transactions can then carry the appropriate organizational worktags, reports can compare departmental cost and activity, and role assignments can be constrained to the relevant departments. Therefore, the correct reason is to structure the hospital's workforce and financial reporting. This approach treats the department as a durable governance object rather than a descriptive label added separately to unrelated records.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Organizations; topics: organizations, workforce structure, and financial reporting dimensions.

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Question 7

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?

AAsk the accounting manager to update the ledger period status to 'adjustments only' and then create adjustments.

BCreate new adjustment journals in the next period as operational journals cannot be modified after posting

CRun the Fix Operational Journals with Errors task in the current period to automatically address any errors.

DReopen the ledger period and unpost all journals that have missing or incorrect worktags to reenter them later.

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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