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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'.

Termsort descending Category Definition
Proviso

Language in budget bills that places conditions and limitations on the use of appropriations. Example: Up to $500

Public benefit non-profit

A 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation that receives state or federal public funds, organized for charitable purposes.

Public Requisition Template Financial

These templates are specific to a company and can be used by all authorized workers. Only buyers and service coordinators can create or edit public templates. To provision new workers automatically, a template must be public.

Purchase

The Acquisition of goods or services, including the leasing or renting of goods.

Purchase order

(A16) - A document that authorizes the delivery of specified merchandise or the rendering of certain services. This form is used by agencies to encumber, liquidate, and authorize payment for such purchase requisition requests.

Purchase requisition

(A15) - A form used by agencies to request the Department of Enterprise Services, to order materials, supplies, and equipment, or to request an amendment of a previous requisition.

Purchase-to-pay

This includes the policies and procedures for the chain of activities from identifying appropriate buying channels through issuing and managing a purchase order with the supplier, to matching purchase orders with receipt and handoff to accounts payable. It also includes requisition that become purchase orders to suppliers, and submission of paper or electronic invoices. It also includes p-card and blanket purchase order as a buying channel.

Purchaser

An agency that purchases or acquires goods and/or services.

Put (permission) Cross Application

Put is an integration action that adds or changes Workday data. It is a permission that can be granted in a domain security policy.

Quest

An internal tool the Agency Readiness Team (ART) uses to track and respond to agency questions.

RAID (Risk, Action Items, Issues, Decisions)

A management approach for identifying, analyzing, and managing risks, action items, issues, and decisions through to closure, reducing program risk.

Real property

Property that is fixed, immovable, and permanent. Real property includes land, structures affixed to the land, property affixed to the structures, and in some cases, trees etc., growing on the land.

Reappropriation

Capital budget appropriation that reauthorizes the unexpended portion of previously appropriated funds. Because capital projects often overlap fiscal periods, it is necessary to reauthorize some expenditure authority to ensure project completion.

Receipts

Unless otherwise qualified, cash received during a fiscal year irrespective of when the monies are earned.

Reference ID Integration

A unique identifier for a specific instance of a business object in Workday. Reference IDs are used to look up data for integration purposes.

Reimbursable expenses

Amounts expended for or on account of the project that, in accordance with the terms of the appropriate agreement, are to be reimbursed by the agency/institution such as telephone charges and travel expenses in accordance with state guidelines.

Related Business Object Cross Application

When defining a report, fields that return objects related to the primary business object are said to contain related business objects. These related objects may have their own set of fields that can be included in the report as well.

Remediated Integration

An integration containing Workday accounting values.

Remediation

The system modifications necessary to make an agency's computer system/application compatible with Workday using its associated FDM model, worktags, and values.

Report Data Sources Cross Application

Predefined groups of logically related fields, used when creating reports with Report Writer, which define the data in the report row. For example, the report data source “Employees” contains contact information, personal data, and identification information. Report data sources also include which roles have access to see the report data.

Request for Change (RFC)

A request for changes to configuration that do not impact scope, schedule, or budget are reviewed by the configuration change control board. Such request should clearly define reasons for the desired change in the system or application, what will be achieved with the change and how the changes will be implemented. All requests for change must be approved by the OneWA program executive director.

Requisition

Also known as a purchase request. A form used by agencies to request DES to order materials, supplies, and equipment, or to request an amendment of a previous requisition. An internal process to initiate the request and approval process.

Requisition Template Financial

A collection of goods and services that makes the requisition process simpler, faster, and more manageable.

Rescind (business process) Cross Application

Rescinding a business process operates on completed business processes. It completely reverses all changes made to Workday data. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy.

Reserve or fund balance

In budget terminology, the difference between budgeted resources and expenditures.

Reserved allotment status

The portion of expenditure authority not expected to be used because of circumstances such as the Governor's across-the-board allotment reductions, technical corrections, or proviso compliance.

Resource Financial

Any item you want to track, from company vehicles to software licenses and access cards. For capital resources, you can capture the acquisition cost and record depreciation based on the depletion schedule attributes. You can also track resource custodianship.

Resource Category Financial

When you set up expense items and purchase items, you assign a resource category. It is a classification in procurement and resource management that provides a logical grouping to search and report on acquired items and services. It can also be used to drive different accounting behavior as it is a dimension in account posting rule types used in procurement and resource management.

Results Washington

Results Washington combines the best aspects of previous performance management and performance budgeting efforts such as Government Management Accountability and Performance (GMAP) and Priorities of Government (POG) with a significantly expanded Lean initiative that will involve all state agencies.

Retainage

Those portions of cash amounts due to be paid to a contractor for work completed that are held back (retained) by the agency/institution and not paid until some later date; often at substantial completion or at final completion of the work, according to the terms and conditions of the contract and any relevant legal statue; as a security for proper performance of work and fulfillment of contractor's requirements.

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