Domain catalogue Finance on Workday

General ledger account on Workday

The chart of accounts as governed master data: one account list, its groupings, its company-code views and the mappings to every local chart.

SOURCES, READ IN PLACEWorkdayHCM · financeASSEMBLED1 · standardise2 · match on the domain keys3 · survive field by field4 · place in the hierarchies5 · run the column and row rules6 · publish the golden viewGOLDEN GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTGeneral ledger accountone id · every source key keptREAD BYGrids, pivots and drill-downswith the transactionsAPIs, SQL and agentsone policyWrite-back to the systemsacknowledged
The objects the domain reads in place on Workday, the assembly steps, and who reads the result. Writes go through web-service Put operations.
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What the domain reads

The Workday objects behind the golden record

Objects are read through Workday web services and RaaS reports; the rows stay in Workday.

ObjectRead fromFields the domain usesFreshness
Ledger accountsGet_Ledger_Accounts · Get_Account_SetsLedger_Account_ID · Ledger_Account_Type · Account_Setlive through web services; reports on schedule
Account posting rulesGet_Account_Posting_RulesPosting_Rule_Typelive through web services; reports on schedule
The keys

How general ledger account records match, in this system's fields

account number within a chartgroup account mapping

The first object above carries the strong keys; the standardised attributes come from the same rows. Local accounts map to exactly one group account per version; the mapping is master data with its own history.

What is written back

Through the interfaces Workday supports

Writes go through the Workday web services (Put operations) with the reference id; each call returns the id or the error, logged beside the change.

InterfaceUsed forResult
Put_Ledger_Account · Put_Account_Setgolden values approved for write-back: account; groupings; company-code viewthe id or error Workday returns, stored beside the change

Write-back is off per object until a test write succeeds, and approval rules can require a person per object. Reconciliation compares the source row with the golden value on a schedule.

Access and prerequisites

What is in place before the first build

Workday security groups are mapped to Lima policies once; personal data stays under the HR policy.

Register the objects2 objects from the connector catalogue; each shows its rows at once.
Nearby

This domain on other systems, and other domains on Workday

General ledger account on

Other domains on Workday

Terms on this page

Chart of accountsThe list of accounts a company posts to, with their meaning.
Financial statement versionA hierarchy of accounts into statement lines, kept as versions.
Read in placeThe rows stay in Workday; Lima sends the filter and the columns and Workday returns the matching rows.
Questions

Does this domain copy data out of Workday?

The golden record reads the objects above in place. History the pivot needs at scale is landed in your lake by the Backbone, under the same keys, security and audit.

What does the Workday team need to do?

Grant the read access and the write interfaces listed above and agree the refresh method. Nothing is installed in Workday.

Can we start with reads only?

Yes. Write-back stays off per object until a test write succeeds; the golden view, the API and the pivots work from day one on reads.

See your first domain built on your data

Bring two systems that hold the same customers, suppliers or materials. In one working day we connect them, run the match on live rows, review the queue with your steward and publish the first golden view with its API.