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Check your level of security - if they are outside of your Cost Center or Cost Center Hierarchy, you would need Security Access at the Company level to process their PAA. 

Why is Worker Position - Period Activity taking precedence over the costing allocation I had set up?

Workday follows a costing allocation hierarchy.  If an employee is receiving pay through a Period Activity Pay, this takes precedence over any other costing allocations that may be set up for that worker (Ex.

This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is designed to walk Payroll Costing Managers through the task of assigning a Worker Position Earning costing allocation for the Temp Service Fee when required. The Temp Service Fee cannot be allocated to a federal grant. When a Temp Worker’s wages are being costed to a federal grant, a separate Worker Position Earning costing allocation must be created so the fee can be charged to other worktags.

The Decision Tree maps out corrections paths for certain tasks. See file at the bottom of the page for a graphic decision tree.

Workday tasks used to correct the FDM worktags on posted transactions

Internal Service Delivery:

This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is designed to walk a Payroll Accounting Adjustment Specialist through the steps to find and edit a Historical Payroll Accounting Adjustment in Workday. By the end of this QRG, users will be able to successfully find and make edits to an existing historical PAA that you saved for later.

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Use this spreadsheet to determine the amount of Fringe based on Fiscal Year and Expenditure Type. 

Hire, Add Job, and Change Job are all Workday HCM (Human Capital Management) processes that trigger inbox actions for Payroll Costing Managers. This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) will walk through what the Payroll Costing Manager will do upon receipt of that inbox notification.

These slides cover:  how to Create a Payroll Accounting Adjustment in Workday, how to run reports related to Payroll Accounting Adjustment, how to Request a Payroll Accounting Adjustment for Oneself, and how Create a Historical Payroll Accounting Adjustment

This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is designed to walk Payroll Costing Specialists and Payroll Costing Managers through the process to find and review the Payroll Costing Allocation details from worker history. This task is used to access the Worker History and view the process and details related to the various Payroll Costing Allocation events.

These slides cover the following:
• The purpose of costing allocations and the high-level business
process
• When and how to assign various types of costing allocation:
− Worker Position
− Worker Position Earning
• The various requirements when allocating costs to grants: Salary
over the Cap (SOC), cost share, temp workers, approval routing,
and Federal Work Study
• How to maintain existing costing allocations
• How to request a costing allocation for oneself
• How to run reports related to Payroll Costing

These course slides cover the following:
• Which business processes use costing allocation and costing
override as a subtask
• How to process Inbox Tasks that are routed to you as part of the
following Human Capital Management (HCM) Tasks:
− Hire, Add Job, Change Job
− Period Activity Pay
− One-Time Payment

This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is designed to walk employees through the process of adding, deleting, and viewing tags and comments on transactions in Workday. The tag and comment functionalities allow users who have access to certain objects (i.e. requisitions) or are involved in a transaction or business process (i.e., approvers) to communicate and collaborate with others.  The tagging functionality is available in the Activity Stream.