General Glossary
Account Summary (Ledger Account Summary)
A grouping of ledger accounts. For example, users can group all assets that are considered current assets to easily reference them. Individual accounts can appear in multiple account summaries.
Account Translation Rule Set
A set of rules that dictate how monetary amounts in individual accounts are translated into a different currency. Translation rule sets are defined at an account-set level and apply to each account in that account set.
Accounting Journal
Detailed records of financial transactions.
ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
Advanced Report
Users can create three types of custom reports: simple, advanced and matrix.
An advanced report provides all the features of a simple report, plus more advanced ones such as accessing related business objects and producing multiple levels of headings and subtotals. Advanced reports also enable the use of sub-filters, run time prompts, charts, worklets, report sharing and also provide the ability to expose the report as a web service.
Aggregation Security Group
An aggregation security group is one whose members are other security groups. Workers associated with any included security group are granted access through an aggregation security group.
Approve
Designated participants in a business process, with a defined responsibility in this type of event, indicate they approve the proposed action. (The business process can proceed to the next step.)
Assignable Roles
Users can assign positions to organization roles. Depending on the staffing model, a position may or may not necessarily have a worker specified.
Assignee
A worktag used to associate an individual with a specific funding source, often for reporting purposes, and typically assigned to faculty and staff for portfolio management. It can also be used to assist with workflow management by allowing users to search their inbox for individuals (Assignees) they are responsible for managing and filter the transactions they must review.
Award
Stores information in Workday about the contract received from the sponsor.
Award Line
Contains business rules for collecting costs, calculating F&A, billing sponsors, and reporting. An Award must have at least one Award Line, and each Award Line must be associated with a unique Grant.
