Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
A company rents multiple office buildings around the country, and books rent expense for all buildings to the same ledger account and cost center. Multiple cost centers use office space in each building. The company wants to allocate costs from ledger account 6100: Facilities and cost center 34000: Facilities to cost centers 71000, 72000, and 73000, based on the square footage of those three cost centers.
When configuring the target for your allocation definition, which section should you map the cost centers from?
Correct Answer: D
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The target cost center worktag should be mapped from the Basis section because the basis contains the dimensions and statistical values that determine how the allocation is distributed. In this scenario, cost centers 71000, 72000, and 73000 are the basis dimensions, and their respective square-footage statistics determine each cost center’s pro-rata share.
The Source section identifies the amount being allocated: activity in ledger account 6100: Facilities associated with cost center 34000: Facilities. Mapping the target cost center from Source would preserve cost center 34000 on the allocated lines, which would defeat the requirement to distribute the expense to the consuming cost centers.
Within the Target component, Workday permits worktag values to be obtained from Source, Basis, or User Specified configuration. Selecting Basis causes each generated target line to inherit the cost center associated with the square-footage value used in that line’s allocation calculation. The Offset component then relieves the originating facilities cost pool and normally retains the source-company and source-worktag context.
Accordingly, Basis is both the calculation driver and the correct mapping source for the receiving cost centers.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education – Allocations; topics: Allocation Definition: Basis, Allocation Definition: Target, Worktag Mapping, and Pro-Rata.
Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
A company created a journal sequence generator rule, assigned the rule to the company, selected to create ID generators, opened accounting periods, and posted journals to the current ledger year. Next, the company added a condition to the journal sequence generator rule.
When is the soonest the new condition would be included on the company’s journals?
Correct Answer: B
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The posted journals and opened periods establish the current ledger year’s sequencing population, so the newly added condition cannot be introduced into that year’s existing sequence generators. The earliest controlled implementation is the next ledger year, provided no journals have posted there and the company removes the unused future ID generators before activating the updated journal sequence rule.
Closing the remaining current-year periods does not retroactively rebuild generators that already assigned numbers. The condition cannot be inserted before year-end while current-year posted journals remain, because that could compromise sequential or gapless numbering. Option D is also incorrect because the condition can be used prospectively when the eligibility requirements are met. Before the next year begins, the administrator should keep its periods out of Open status, verify that no journals have posted, delete only the unused generated IDs, activate the revised rule, and recreate or assign the new generators. Once posting begins under the new year, the same restrictions apply. Therefore, option B accurately identifies both the earliest period and the required controls for adopting the new condition.
Official Workday reference: Workday – Configure Journal Sequence Generator Rules; topics: future-year journal sequence changes and unused ID generators.
A company is required to comply with both IFRS and U.S. GAAP lease accounting rules. The company has already booked their U.S. GAAP leases.
What accounting method should the company select to create the alternate contract for IFRS?
Correct Answer: D
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
For IFRS 16, a long-term operating lease is treated in a manner comparable to a finance lease. The alternate supplier contract must therefore use the ROU asset depreciation expense accounting method. This method supports recognition of the right-of-use asset and lease liability, followed by depreciation or amortization of the ROU asset and separate interest expense over the lease term.
Straight line expense and ROU asset operating expense are associated with the single lease-expense pattern used for an ASC 842 operating lease rather than the IFRS 16 finance-style expense pattern. Workday does not automatically select the method without the relevant configuration; the accounting method is assigned through the lease contract type and book-code design and becomes a controlling attribute of the alternate contract. The original U.S. GAAP contract can continue to generate its own expense recognition, while the alternate IFRS contract produces the different accounting in an IFRS-specific book code and, where required, the IFRS asset book. Selecting ROU asset depreciation expense therefore establishes the appropriate IFRS treatment and prevents the alternate contract from duplicating the U.S. GAAP operating-lease expense pattern.
Official Workday reference: Workday – Multibook Asset Accounting for Leases; topics: IFRS 16 operating leases and ROU asset depreciation expense.
As an auditor, you find a discrepancy in the intercompany balances between Company C and Company D.
How will you reconcile this difference?
Correct Answer: B
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The auditor should begin by reviewing Workday’s intercompany transaction and reconciliation reports to identify the specific documents, journal lines, currencies, periods, or affiliate worktags causing the difference between Company C and Company D. The Intercompany Work Area, Intercompany Out of Balance, Intercompany Elimination Out of Balance, and payables-and-receivables reconciliation reports provide controlled visibility into matched, unmatched, posted, and in-progress activity.
Deleting all intercompany transactions would destroy valid audit evidence and is not an acceptable reconciliation method. Reversing the entire population in the current period could create additional timing differences and would not identify the original cause. Manually overriding consolidated financial statements treats the symptom after consolidation rather than correcting the source records. Once the reports isolate the discrepancy, the accountant can determine whether it results from an unrecorded receipt, unmatched settlement, missing affiliate worktag, currency translation difference, incorrect account, or transaction posted in different periods. The appropriate source transaction, receipt, settlement, or correcting journal can then be processed and the reconciliation rerun. Reviewing the intercompany reports is therefore the mandatory diagnostic step before any accounting correction is authorized.
Official Workday reference: Workday – Setup Considerations: Direct Intercompany Activities; topics: Intercompany Work Area and out-of-balance reporting.
Company B is a standalone company and is not part of a hierarchy.
What must you complete before Company B can enter an operating lease contract in Workday?
Correct Answer: D
Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
Before Company B creates an operating lease contract, administrators must establish the relationship among the company’s enabled lease type, accounting method, and book code. The Maintain Lease Contract Book Code Configuration task provides this mapping. Workday uses it to determine which accounting basis applies when the lease contract is created and to route generated lease accounting into the correct book code.
Membership in a company hierarchy is not a prerequisite for entering a lease. A standalone legal entity can maintain its own lease configuration and accounting books. Approval of unrelated supplier contracts does not supply the required accounting mapping. Option C reverses the sequence: users should not manually choose an arbitrary lease type, method, and book code on the first contract before the governing configuration exists. Where multiple lease-accounting options are enabled, Workday specifically requires distinct lease contract book code configurations and prevents incompatible codes from being reused across standards. Once the configuration is complete, Company B can create the supplier contract using the appropriate lease contract type, and Workday can generate initial recognition, installments, expense recognition, and multibook accounting consistently. Therefore, Maintain Lease Contract Book Code Configuration is the required setup action.
Official Workday reference: Workday Education – Lease Accounting; topics: lease contract book code configuration and operating lease setup.
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