Glossary of Terms

This is a list of terms used by the One Washington program and within Workday. Only Workday terms have subcategories. To find a term, enter it in in the search box, and select 'Apply'.

Term Glossary Sub-Category Definition
Design/Implementation Program

The period after the System Integrator (SI) has been selected (and starts on the project), and validated where the system design, configuration, testing, training, and deployment activities occur.

Design/code plan check Program

The cost for design document plan check that is performed by the International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO) only when required by local code officials. This requirement should be identified in the permit review process.

Design service contingency Program

Includes an allowance for uncertainty in scoping and pricing additional services, covers variability in estimating reimbursables, includes design fees for owner directed changes and includes design fees for changes during construction that are beyond the scope of basic services and are not a result of errors or omissions by the A/E. The total amount for design services contingency ranges from 5 to 10 percent of total consultant services cost depending on the complexity of the project.

Design development phase Program

The phase of the A/E's services in which the consultant prepares the design development documents, from the approved schematic design studies, for submission to the agency/institution for approval.

Design build Program

An alternative contracting method of project delivery subject to provisions in RCW 39.10 in which the agency/institution contracts directly with a single entity that is responsible for both design and construction services for a construction project.

Derived Roles Workday Cross Application

Roles can be assigned to a user when he is given a responsibility within a functional area, such as HR partner or compensation partner for a particular organization. You can have different roles in relationship to different organizations. For example, you could be a compensation partner for one organization and an HR business partner for another organization.

Depreciation Profile Workday Financial

Determines how a resource will be depreciated, and specifies the depreciation method and depreciation start date. Each resource category is assigned one depreciation profile, and each resource depreciation profile is defaulted by its resource category.

Department of Enterprise Services Program

The Washington state Department of Enterprise Services, an agency.

Deny Workday Cross Application

Designated participants in business processes, with a defined responsibility in this type of event, indicate that they deny the proposed action The business process is not authorized to proceed to the next step. In some cases, the entire business process may be terminated, and all Workday data is restored to its state before the business process started.

Defined Contribution Plans Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)

A type of benefit plan where employees make contributions to 401k and 403b accounts. You can establish defined contribution plans and add these plans to benefits programs. Your employees can make or change defined contribution elections at any time, and those changes are sent to payroll for the periods in which the elections are effective.

Deferred maintenance Program

A backlog of activities that agencies deem necessary to bring facilities into good repair. Deferred maintenance is generally work that is left undone due to the lack of resources or perceived lower priority than projects funded. Failure to perform deferred work may result in the progressive deterioration of the facility condition or performance, and if not addressed, will significantly increase restoration cost. Deferred maintenance backlog reduction plans must be submitted with the capital budget request.

Dedicated accounts Program

Accounts set up by law to receive revenue from a specific source and to be spent for a specific purpose.

Debt service fund Program

A fund type established to account for the accumulation of resources for, and the payment of, general long-term obligation principal and interest.

Debt limit Program

Washington State’s legal restriction (RCW 39.42.132) on the amount that can be paid for debt service on bonds, notes, or other borrowed money. The Washington State Constitution (Article 8, Section 1(b)) mandates that payments of principal and interest in any fiscal year cannot exceed 9 percent of the arithmetic mean of general state revenues for the three preceding fiscal years. This debt limit of 9 percent of revenues is to be reduced in downward steps to 8 percent by July 1, 2034.

Debit Memo Workday Financial

In Workday, a debit memo is a customer invoice adjustment that increases the amount due. A debit memo for suppliers is a supplier invoice adjustment that increases the amount owed.

Day Breaker Workday Time Tracking

The time of day on which a worker's workday and work week begins. Defines the 24-hour period over which daily time calculations execute and the 168-hour period over which weekly time calculations execute. Unless otherwise specified, the default day breaker is 12am.

Data Universal Numbering System Number (DUNS) Program

Created in 1962, the Data Universal Numbering System or D-U-N-S® Number is D&B's copyrighted, proprietary means of identifying business entities on a location-specific basis.Assigned and maintained solely by D&B, this unique nine-digit identification number has been assigned to over 100 million businesses worldwide. A D-U-N-S® Number remains with the company location to which it has been assigned even if it closes or goes out-of-business. D-U-N-S® Number also "unlocks" a wealth of value-added data associated with that entity, including the business name, physical and mailing addresses, tradestyles ("doing business as"), principal names, financial, payment experiences,industry classifications (SICs and NAICS), socio-economic status,government data. The D-U-N-S® Number also links members of corporate family trees worldwide.

Data Source Workday Cross Application

A data source defines a particular set of business object instances for reporting purposes. A data source is similar to a database view, except it is more flexible in two key areas. First, a database view always returns a flattened out tabular data structure, whereas a data source can return hierarchical data structures. Second, a database view requires that technical staff manually join related tables together, while a data source automatically allows reportable access to all business objects related to those in the data source.

Data Conversion Program Integration

For One Washington, data conversion is the process of translating data from one format to another (AFRS to Workday) and migrating the data from an Agency legacy system to the One Washington Workday system. Example: If an agency is retiring a system for Pass 3 and intends to utilize Workday for its functionality, there’s a good chance they need to convert that data to Workday.”

Data cleansing Program

Data cleansing typically refers to a set of activities that ensures all data in a system is standardized. This will be necessary to move data from old systems (AFRS, HRMS, etc.) into a new ERP.

Dashboard Landing Pages Workday Cross Application

Several dashboards are delivered with a number of worklets pre-configured that are specific to a functional area, like Talent Management or Workforce Planning. Since these worklets are built with the report writer and report-specific calculated fields, you can copy and modify them if you have unique requirements. You can add additional custom worklets to these dashboards using the report writer.

Dashboard Program

A visually intuitive and easy to understand graphical representation of key performance indicator shown on a single screen.

Customer Invoice Adjustment Workday Financial

A change to the amount a customer owes, and can be an increase or a decrease in the amount due.

Customer (procurement) Program

A person or agency that buys goods or services directly, based on delegated authority or through utilization of DES services.

Custom Worktags Workday Cross Application

15 delivered worktags with configurable names and values. Each custom worktag associates the Worktag Usage with financial, human resource, payroll, or time tracking transactions or data. Optimal when all you need is a simple tag for financial transactions that do not require any capabilities around roll-ups, security assignment, or assigning to workers. Note: custom worktags cannot be used for payroll costing allocations and accounting adjustments.

Custom Report Workday Cross Application

Custom reports are designed and built by customers using the Workday Report Writer. They can be created new or as a copy of another standard or custom report.

Custom Organization Worktag Workday Cross Application

Definable worktags that you can associate with people or financial transactions. You can: (1) Automatically populate a custom organization as a worktag into transactions that involve a worker by making the worker a member of the custom organization. (2) Use custom organizations as worktags to route transactions to specific people based on role.

Custom Objects Workday Cross Application

Ability to extend Workday business objects by creating custom object definitions based on the business object and adding custom fields. Custom objects enable you to record additional data for which there’s no Workday-delivered field. - Business objects are used to store data in Workday (such as organizations or workers). A business object has fields and instances, which are analogous to rows and columns in a spreadsheet.

Current Asset Workday Financial

An asset on the balance sheet that is expected to be sold or otherwise used up in the near future; usually within one year or one business cycle (whichever is longer). Typical current assets include cash, cash equivalents, accounts receivable, inventory, the portion of prepaid accounts that will be used within a year, and short-term investments. On the balance sheet, assets are typically classified into current assets and long-term assets.

Currency Rate Type Workday Financial

Allows you to establish more than one conversion rate for the same currency pair during the same time frame. For example, one rate type can apply to the daily rate used in operational transactions, and then average and historical rate types can be used for financial reporting. The default rate type is used in all operational activity. You can define names for currency rate types; typical names are Period Average, Daily, End of Day Daily, and Historical.