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Free Workday Pro Record-to-Report (R2R) Certification Exam Workday-Record-to-Report Exam Questions

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Question 1

A company that has multiple subsidiaries is implementing Workday. They need to set up intercompany transactions.

What is the first step in this process?

Correct Answer: B. Edit the intercompany profiles between the companies.
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

The first configuration step is to establish the intercompany relationships through Edit Company Intercompany Profile. The profile determines which companies may transact with or settle each other and controls capabilities such as initiation, settle-only relationships, payment types, bank accounts, automatic intercompany receipts, and asset transfers. Without a valid profile, Workday cannot expose the affiliate as an eligible intercompany counterparty for many transaction types.

Historical journal conversion should occur only after the foundational company relationships, posting rules, affiliate worktags, and opening periods are correctly configured. Settlement terms and payment methods are components of the broader profile and settlement design; they do not replace creation of the relationship itself. Training users before configuration is complete would teach an incomplete process and cannot enable transactions. After profiles are established, administrators configure intercompany payables and receivables account posting rules, companies as customers or suppliers for direct intercompany activity, appropriate business processes, elimination rules, and reconciliation reporting. This sequence ensures that transactions create balanced due-to and due-from accounting and remain traceable through settlement and consolidation. Therefore, editing the intercompany profiles is the correct first step.

Official Workday reference: Workday - Define Intercompany Profiles; topics: Edit Company Intercompany Profile and relationship setup.


Question 2

At month-end, during the account certification process, a company would like certain ledger accounts prepared, reviewed, and certified by specific users.

What form of configuration do they need for this?

Correct Answer: C. Role Assignments on the Account Certification Set.
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

An Account Certification Set groups the ledger accounts and organizational scope that will be certified and provides the role-assignment context for the certification process. Assigning the appropriate preparer, reviewer, and certifier roles on the Account Certification Set ensures that Workday routes the selected accounts to the designated users when the month-end certification is generated.

Policy, Purpose, and Procedure document the expected control but do not determine who receives each workflow responsibility. Company-level role assignments are too broad when different ledger accounts require different certification participants. User-based security can grant access to certification functionality, yet access alone does not assign responsibility for a particular certification population. The Account Certification Set is the correct level because it connects the defined account scope with the accountable users and business-process routing. Administrators should also validate certification rules, frequency, due dates, materiality, supporting-document requirements, and escalation behavior. At period close, generated certifications then follow a repeatable chain of preparation, review, and final certification, with status reporting and evidence retained for audit. Therefore, Role Assignments on the Account Certification Set provide the required configuration.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Account Certifications; topics: account certification sets and role assignments.


Question 3

A company needs to comply with both ASC 842 and IFRS 16 leasing standards.

When creating an alternate supplier contract to comply with IFRS 16, what will determine the appropriate accounting for the installment expense recognition?

Correct Answer: A. The alternate supplier contract's accounting method
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

The alternate supplier contract's accounting method determines how Workday accounts for its installment expense recognition. Alternate contracts allow the same underlying lease arrangement to be evaluated under different accounting standards, accounting methods, and book codes. Therefore, the IFRS 16 alternate contract must carry the accounting method that represents the IFRS treatment.

The original supplier contract remains the source for supplier invoices, but its accounting method does not override the accounting treatment assigned to the alternate contract. This separation is necessary because ASC 842 and IFRS 16 can produce different expense-recognition patterns. For example, IFRS 16 generally treats long-term operating leases as finance leases, resulting in interest and depreciation or amortization components rather than the single straight-line lease expense commonly associated with an ASC 842 operating lease.

The interest rate is an input used in present-value and interest calculations, but it does not independently select the accounting framework or expense-recognition methodology. Similarly, the original contract's type and accounting method govern the original contract's treatment, not the alternate contract's parallel accounting.

Consequently, Workday evaluates the accounting method assigned directly to the alternate supplier contract when generating the applicable installment expense-recognition accounting.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Lease Accounting; topics: Alternate Supplier Contracts, Expense Recognition, and ASC 842 and IFRS 16.


Question 4

What is the term for a financial account held at a bank or other financial institution?

Correct Answer: C. Bank Account
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

A financial account maintained at a bank or another financial institution is a Bank Account in Workday. The bank account record identifies the owning organization, account number, currency, financial institution or branch, accepted payment types, account usage, and any settlement or reconciliation configuration. It represents the external cash account whose activity is reflected in the general ledger.

A settlement account is a usage context or account selected for processing particular payments and receipts; it is not the general term for the financial account itself. A cash pool groups cash positions or related accounts for liquidity and balancing analysis. A ledger account is an internal chart-of-accounts classification used to record cash and other financial activity, but it is not the external account held by the institution. Workday links the bank account to appropriate cash ledger accounting through account posting rules and bank-account setup. The distinction matters because operational settlement, bank statements, reconciliation, and payment routing reference the Bank Account object, while financial statements summarize the resulting activity in cash ledger accounts. Accordingly, Bank Account is the precise Workday term requested.

Official Workday reference: Workday - Steps: Set Up Banking; topics: bank entities, bank accounts, and settlement accounts.


Question 5

A report writer created a worklet to illustrate which ledger accounts the finance team certified.

What report allows the report writer to add the worklet to a dashboard?

Correct Answer: D. Maintain Dashboards
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

Maintain Dashboards is the task used to configure a dashboard and add eligible worklets to it. After the report writer creates or enables the custom report as a worklet, the dashboard administrator uses Maintain Dashboards to place that worklet on the required dashboard, arrange its presentation, and control availability according to the dashboard configuration.

Edit Custom Report is used to maintain report definition, sharing, prompts, fields, and worklet-related properties, but it does not itself add the resulting worklet to a dashboard. Modify Workday Dashboards and Configure Worklet for Dashboard are not the delivered task names applicable to this action. Security remains important: users need access to the dashboard, the worklet, the custom report, its data source, and the underlying certified-account data. Adding a worklet does not bypass those domain controls. The administrator should also confirm that the report output is suitable for dashboard display and that prompts or filters have usable defaults. Maintain Dashboards is therefore the correct task for incorporating the ledger-account certification worklet into the target dashboard.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Workday Reporting; topics: Maintain Dashboards and dashboard worklets.


Question 6

You submit a journal entry.

What journal status proves Workday recorded it in the ledger?

Correct Answer: B. Posted
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

Posted is the journal status that confirms Workday has recorded the journal in the ledger. Workday defines a posted journal as one that has completed the Accounting Journal Event business process, has been posted to the applicable company ledger, and is included in financial reporting.

Submission alone does not establish ledger recognition. After submission, a journal may remain In Progress while approvals, reviews, validations, or other configured business-process steps are outstanding. During that period, Workday has assigned the journal to workflow, but it is not yet included in standard financial statements. Approved and Completed may describe workflow events or steps, but they are not the controlling accounting-document status used to demonstrate that ledger posting occurred.

Once the journal reaches Posted status, its debit and credit lines affect ledger balances for the specified accounting date, ledger, company, book code, and worktags. A posted journal can subsequently be removed from active ledger reporting only through the controlled unposting process, subject to period status and security restrictions.

Therefore, the accountant should verify the journal document status itself rather than relying solely on submission or approval history. The definitive status evidencing ledger recording is Posted.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Accounting Journals; topics: Journal Statuses, Posted, and Accounting Journal Event.


Question 7

Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.

A company created a journal sequence generator rule, assigned the rule to the company, selected to create ID generators, opened accounting periods, and posted journals to the current ledger year. Next, the company added a condition to the journal sequence generator rule.

When is the soonest the new condition would be included on the company's journals?

Correct Answer: B. In the next ledger year, assuming no journals are posted AND they delete the unused ID generators before activating the updated journal sequence rule.
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

The posted journals and opened periods establish the current ledger year's sequencing population, so the newly added condition cannot be introduced into that year's existing sequence generators. The earliest controlled implementation is the next ledger year, provided no journals have posted there and the company removes the unused future ID generators before activating the updated journal sequence rule.

Closing the remaining current-year periods does not retroactively rebuild generators that already assigned numbers. The condition cannot be inserted before year-end while current-year posted journals remain, because that could compromise sequential or gapless numbering. Option D is also incorrect because the condition can be used prospectively when the eligibility requirements are met. Before the next year begins, the administrator should keep its periods out of Open status, verify that no journals have posted, delete only the unused generated IDs, activate the revised rule, and recreate or assign the new generators. Once posting begins under the new year, the same restrictions apply. Therefore, option B accurately identifies both the earliest period and the required controls for adopting the new condition.

Official Workday reference: Workday - Configure Journal Sequence Generator Rules; topics: future-year journal sequence changes and unused ID generators.


Question 8

An accountant would like to import multiple accounting journals for one company.

As a part of the import, what currency would the ledger amounts convert to when posted?

Correct Answer: A. Company Currency
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

When imported accounting journals post, Workday records ledger amounts in the company's currency. The spreadsheet may supply transaction currency, debit and credit amounts, and where supported a currency rate or rate type. Workday converts transaction amounts into company-currency ledger amounts using the applicable conversion configuration and accounting date.

Transaction Currency represents the currency in which the source amount is expressed; it is not the final currency of the company's ledger amount. Foreign Currency is a descriptive concept rather than the defined posting destination. Translated Currency is used when financial balances are translated from company currency into a reporting currency for consolidated or statutory reporting and is not the base amount created by journal posting. The imported journal must balance according to the ledger and currency rules and must contain valid company, account, and worktag references. After the Accounting Journal Event completes, the posted journal affects the actuals ledger in company currency while retaining transaction-currency information for analysis. Therefore, Company Currency is the correct answer. This treatment ensures that journals imported from multiple source currencies can be consistently aggregated in the legal entity's ledger.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Accounting Journals; topics: journal import, transaction currency, and company-currency ledger amounts.


Question 9

Your company requires a line of business to be included on accounting journals when a cost center of 71100-Field Sales Operations is selected.

What should you do?

Correct Answer: A. Create a critical custom validation.
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

The requirement is conditional: a Line of Business worktag must be present specifically when Cost Center 71100-Field Sales Operations is selected. A critical custom validation can evaluate both conditions-whether the designated cost center is present and whether Line of Business is blank-and prevent submission until the missing worktag is supplied.

Critical severity is required because it creates a hard stop. A warning validation can be bypassed and therefore cannot ensure compliance. Maintain Worktag Usage can make Line of Business required for accounting journals, but that configuration applies broadly to the transaction type across the tenant; it does not restrict the requirement to one cost center. Maintain Related Worktag Usage is appropriate when a defined worktag value should default from another business object. It does not adequately represent a requirement allowing the user to select an appropriate Line of Business whenever the specified cost center is used.

The validation should therefore be configured on the Accounting Journal transaction type with logic equivalent to: Cost Center equals 71100-Field Sales Operations AND Line of Business is blank. The resulting critical error should explicitly instruct the preparer to enter a Line of Business before submitting the journal.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Accounting Journals; topics: Custom Validation Condition Rules, Critical and Warning Validations, and Maintain Worktag Usage.


Question 10

All operational transactions with the spend category of Office and Administrative should post to ledger account 6300-Office Supplies. Costs are currently posting to 1100-Suspense.

What should you do?

Correct Answer: A. Configure a condition on the Spend Rule with the appropriate dimension, value and resulting ledger account.
Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:

The Spend account posting rule must contain a condition that evaluates the Spend Category dimension for Office and Administrative and returns ledger account 6300-Office Supplies. Workday evaluates conditions in sequence and assigns the ledger account from the first matching condition. The current posting to 1100-Suspense indicates that no suitable spend condition or default result is being derived for this category.

Changing the default account to 6300 would direct every unmatched spend transaction to Office Supplies, not only transactions with the specified spend category. Fix Operational Journals with Errors is a diagnostic or correction process and does not replace the missing policy configuration; moreover, successfully posted suspense activity may require controlled correcting entries after the rule is fixed. Business-process approval conditions control routing, not ledger-account derivation. The administrator should add the precise dimension, comparison value, and resulting ledger account, place the condition ahead of any broader match, test representative invoices, and then correct affected accounting as permitted. This resolves the root cause and ensures future Office and Administrative spend consistently posts to 6300. Therefore, option A is correct.

Official Workday reference: Workday Education - Accounting Journals; topics: Spend account posting rule conditions and resulting ledger accounts.