Exam Workday-Record-to-Report Topic 1 Question 56 Discussion
Actual exam question for Workday's Workday-Record-to-Report exam
Question #: 56
Topic #: 1
Question #: 56
Topic #: 1
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?
What should you do?
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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.
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.
by Rory at Oct 06, 2026, 11:21 AM
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