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A Cost Center (CC) is an area within a school/unit that owns a subset of revenues and/or expenses. They report funds available and manage multiple fund sources. The legacy Oracle term Organization most closely translates to Cost Center in Workday Financials terms, but some schools and units have broken their organizations into smaller section to take advantage of Workday's increased cost center functionality. Therefore, you may find that one Oracle org is split into multiple Cost Centers in Workday Financials.  

Here are some things to consider when creating a Cost Center:

This document gives summaries, examples, and max field lengths for all FDM Worktags

These slides illustrate the basics of the FDM

This reference document contains some of the most common scenarios for function use. Function classification guidelines and examples with the purpose of establishing consistent function worktag usage across UVA Schools and Academic Departments.

How do I clear obligations?

Stakeholders can use this Cheat Sheet to determine which course(s) will best address their Workday Financials questions. These courses are available as self-paced training and can be searched by title in Workday Learning.

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:

Training for Adaptive Planning is available now in Workday.  This 45-minute training is online and on-demand.   If the training has been assigned to you, get in there and get it done before launch!

More training resources are available on the Workday Financials Training page (look for Budget/Adaptive).

There is some confusion around data found in UBI and Adaptive Planning. Sometimes the numbers in each system don’t match up, so people are wondering what the source of truth should be when this happens and if there is any value in trying to reconcile the numbers.

Account Certification Course Slides: These slides cover the Account Certification process, preparing and approving an Account Certification, remediating variances upon identification, and the reporting capabilities available for Preparers & Approvers of Account Certification

This Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is designed to walk employees through requesting security roles in Workday. Individuals or their managers can request various security roles in Workday by using a Workday dashboard app. Once a request is submitted, it will move through a business process for approval. Multiple role requests for an individual can be entered simultaneously.

We had to embed an approval step as part of the Preparer workflow so that we could ensure separation of duties should someone inadvertently be identified as both the Preparer and the Approver.  In Workday world, a “Review” step (which is what allows for the Preparer to note variances, etc.) is not considered a formal approval so we had to insert that automated step to ensure systematic controls.  You do not have to take action.  The Account Certification is now sitting with the Approver.  The visual below helps clarify this.

Use the attached spreadsheet for worktag functions and descriptions.

Yes - When multiple people are assigned to a Role on any worktag (e.g., Grant, Cost Center, Gift, Project, etc.) that is affiliated with Account Certification, they all are assigned the corresponding Preparer/Approver role for the worktag.   Any person assigned the Account Certification can take action (submit).  Once action is taken, the Account Certification will be removed from all Preparers/Approvers Account Certifications Awaiting Me table.

The attached pdf illustrates the Account Certification Process