Accounting

Statewide Accounting glossary

This is a list of terms used within the Washington Administrative and Accounting Manual (WAAM) and within Workday. To find a term, enter it in in the search box, and select 'Apply'.

NOTE: Terms from the OFM DEIB glossary are currently also showing up here - please disregard until this is fixed.

Term	Glossary	Sub-Category	Definition
Hiring/Position Restrictions	Workday	Human Capital Management (HCM)	Use hiring restrictions to define rules and conditions for holding jobs and positions in a position management, headcount management, or job management organization. Hiring restrictions enable you to: • Limit staffing to specific job families and job profiles. • Restrict the business sites where a job or position can be filled. • Define the required qualifications, experience, and skill levels of workers hired into a job or position (position management organizations only). • Limit staffing for a job or position to a specific worker type (employees or contingent workers). • Limit staffing for a job or position to a specific time type (full or part-time workers).
Hosted catalogue	WAAM		Supplier catalogs hosted on DES website—master contract portal pages.
Hukou	Workday	Human Capital Management (HCM)	Used in China, a hukou is a type of residency permit used to grant eligibility and rights. Workers with a local hukou are entitled to the full spectrum of social rights and welfare benefits. Without a local hukou, workers can hold only a temporary residency certificate. Temporary residence certificate holders are referred to as non-locals.
Improvement	WAAM		A legal term referring to anything erected on and affixed to land (e.g., buildings, roads, fences, and services), which legally becomes part of the land, according to common law and statutory definition.
Incremental budgeting	WAAM		Any budget development approach that focuses on incremental changes to a previous spending level or other defined expenditure base.
Independent Contingent Worker	Workday	Financial	An independent contingent worker (ICW) not represented by a supplier, and accounted for as a 1099 supplier. You issue purchase orders to, create receipts for, and pay ICWs just as you do suppliers.
Indirect cost	WAAM		Costs incurred for a common or joint purpose benefitting more than one cost objective, and not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically benefitted, without effort disproportionate to the results achieved.
Individual Target	Workday	Human Capital Management (HCM)	Either an individual target assigned to a worker in worker compensation (different from the plan target) or the target for each employee calculated by Workday during the bonus or merit process, based on configuration options.
Information Technology (IT)	WAAM		All electronic technology systems, products and services. Equipment, software, services, and products used in processing information, office automation, and telecommunications (voice, data and/or video).
Information technology portfolio	WAAM		The planning and management process for information technology resources and investments overseen by the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Initial costs	WAAM		The same as first cost" or the cost to provide the service or product in today's dollars for a project. Different from life cycle costs
Initiation Step	Workday	Cross Application	An initiation step is the first step of a business process.
Initiative	WAAM		When used with other custom worktags, can be used for state level as well as agency specific purposes.
Initiative 601	WAAM		A law on state budget restrictions approved by voters in the November 1993 general election. Its primary requirements are: an expenditure limit based on inflation and population growth (applicable to state General Fund expenditures only); an emergency reserve account for any GF-S revenues above the expenditure limit; a percentage limit on how much state fees can be raised without legislative approval; and a two-thirds legislative vote requirement on certain state tax increases.
Inspection (on site)	WAAM		The examination of work completed or in progress to determine its conformance with the requirements of the contract documents.
Instance	Workday	Cross Application	An instance refers to one unique occurrence of a business object, for example, your Executive Management organization, or John Doe, the worker.
Integration (INT)	WAAM	Integration	The process of bringing together various systems, automating the flow of information and eliminating the need for repetitive or manual data entry. INT is the shorthand for the term and is usually displayed as INT attached to a number, for example INT039.
Integration Attribute	Workday	Integration	An integration component that specifies the tenanted value of a data element in Workday. For example, Master Policy Number is a type of attribute in benefit provider integrations.
Integration Cloud Connect	Workday	Integration	A catalog of packaged integrations, partner integrations, and connectors to common applications and service providers that extend Workday's functionality. The integrations span the entire range of Workday applications, including Benefits, Human Capital Management, Payroll, Financial Management, and Spend Management. All Cloud Connect integrations are hosted and maintained by Workday.
Integration Connector	Workday	Integration	A set of one or more integration templates that provides a framework for building integrations in a particular functional area. For example, Workday Payroll Interface is an integration connector. Unlike packaged integrations, an integration connector does not have a named endpoint.
Integration Data Source	Workday	Integration	Indicates the type of data that Workday will receive from or export to an external system and its location. Workday supports five types of data sources including attachments, external files, standard reports, custom reports, and REST endpoints.
Integration Event	Workday	Integration	The record of an integration process. Every integration—current or past, involving the import or export of data, successful or not—gets recorded as an integration event. The integration event contains all the information about the integration process, including its status.
Integration Map	Workday	Integration	An integration component that specifies how values in Workday map to values in an external system. For example, Pay Rate Frequency is a type of map in third-party payroll integrations.
Integration Service	Workday	Integration	A group of related integration attributes, maps, and XSLT that provides a framework to transform Workday data into the format required by an external system.
Integration System	Workday	Integration	A tenanted definition of an integration between Workday and an external system, based on a template that provides the methodology needed to communicate data.
Integration Template	Workday	Integration	A collection of integration services that enables communication between Workday and an external system. Workday provides integration templates in categories such as Benefits, Financials, HCM, Payroll, Payroll Interface, Procurement, Recruiting, Security, and Settlement. Many of the delivered templates contain default values for attributes, as well as prompt values for attributes and maps, to further define the integration.
Integration Transformation	Workday	Integration	Converts data into a format that Workday or a receiving external system can understand. Workday provides some delivered transformations, and you can also create custom transformations.
Integration Transport Protocol	Workday	Integration	Controls how Workday exports data to an external system or imports the data from an external system. Workday supports several types of transport protocols, including email, FTP and SFTP, HTTP/SSL, WebDAV, Workday attachments, and Workday Web Services.
Integrations Map	WAAM		An integration component that specifies how values in Workday map to values in an external system. For example, Pay Rate Frequency is a type of map in third-party payroll integrations.
Integrations Mapping/Crosswalks	WAAM		Each integration requires an integration design and field mapping documentation. The integration team is offering agencies a crosswalk integration option to aid with remediation work of some legacy systems during the implementation timeframe or excessive temporary remediations to bridge gaps between phase 1a and phase 1b functionality. The integration team is providing the crosswalk for legacy AFRS COA to/from Workday FDM. These field mappings will be used by OFM to create updated Data Sharing Agreements (DSA).

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