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
Review Type Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)

You define specific types of each Workday-supplied review category. For example, in the Performance Review category, you could define the Annual Review type and the Ad Hoc Performance Review type. When you start a review or define review templates, you choose a review type, not a review category.

Review Template Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)

A collection of instructions, sections, and questions that can be used when you start an employee review. A template is specific to a review type. Workday supplies several sections (for example, Responsibilities and Competencies) from which you can select the appropriate ones for the specific template.

Review Category Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)

Workday supplies four employee review categories: • Development Plan • Disciplinary Action • Personal Improvement Plan • Performance Review The business process definitions for employee reviews are specific to the review categories. This allows you to define unique processes for each category. Note that the review "types" you define in each category are used by name when defining review templates and starting employee reviews.

Reversion Program

Unused appropriation authority. If an agency does not spend all of its appropriation in the timeframe specified by the budget, the authorization to spend that dollar amount expires.

Reversal Workday Payroll

An off-cycle calculation that reverses the results of a completed pay calculation for a worker.

Revenues Program

Cash receipts and receivables of a governmental unit derived from taxes and other sources.

Revenue Category Workday Financial

When you set up sales items, you assign a revenue category. It is a classification in customer contracts and billing that provides a logical grouping to search and report on items and services you sell. It can also be used to drive different accounting behavior as it is a dimension in account posting rule types used in customer contracts, billing, and accounts receivable.

Revenue category Program

Granular view of revenue for goods and services provided. Defaults from a sales item.

Retainage Program

Those portions of cash amounts due to be paid to a contractor for work completed that are held back (retained) by the agency/institution and not paid until some later date; often at substantial completion or at final completion of the work, according to the terms and conditions of the contract and any relevant legal statue; as a security for proper performance of work and fulfillment of contractor’s requirements.

Retain Program

To continue using a computer system/application instead of utilizing Workday functionality. Note: A decision to retain a computer system/application may require extensive conversation and integration work.

Results Washington Program

Results Washington combines the best aspects of previous performance management and performance budgeting efforts such as Government Management Accountability and Performance (GMAP) and Priorities of Government (POG) with a significantly expanded Lean initiative that will involve all state agencies.

REST Program

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture that imposes conditions on how an API should work. REST or RESTful APIs follow secure, reliable, and efficient software communication standards. The REST standards-based architecture uses HTTP protocol to access resources.

Responsive bidder Program

An entity that has submitted a bid that fully conforms to the requirements stated in the Competitive Solicitation.

Resource Category Workday Financial

When you set up expense items and purchase items, you assign a resource category. It is a classification in procurement and resource management that provides a logical grouping to search and report on acquired items and services. It can also be used to drive different accounting behavior as it is a dimension in account posting rule types used in procurement and resource management.

Resource Workday Financial

Any item you want to track, from company vehicles to software licenses and access cards. For capital resources, you can capture the acquisition cost and record depreciation based on the depletion schedule attributes. You can also track resource custodianship.

Reserved allotment status Program

The portion of expenditure authority not expected to be used because of circumstances such as the Governor’s across-the-board allotment reductions, technical corrections, or proviso compliance.

Reserve or fund balance Program

In budget terminology, the difference between budgeted resources and expenditures.

Rescind (business process) Workday Cross Application

Rescinding a business process operates on completed business processes. It completely reverses all changes made to Workday data. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy.

Requisition Template Workday Financial

A collection of goods and services that makes the requisition process simpler, faster, and more manageable.

Requisition Program

Also known as a purchase request. A form used by agencies to request DES to order materials, supplies, and equipment, or to request an amendment of a previous requisition. An internal process to initiate the request and approval process.

Request Authorization Program

This is the phase or process prior to beginning the contract life cycle when purchasers seek authority, approval or assistance with a procurement or purchase. Typically includes scope, estimated cost, funding source, timeline, proposed solution.

Reported Time Workday Time Tracking

A worker's time that has been entered onto the time entry calendar but has not had any time calculations applied.

Report Data Sources Workday Cross Application

Predefined groups of logically related fields, used when creating reports with Report Writer, which define the data in the report row. For example, the report data source “Employees” contains contact information, personal data, and identification information. Report data sources also include which roles have access to see the report data.

Replacement Payment Workday Payroll

An off-cycle payment that replaces a worker's on-cycle payment in a period that is in progress or not yet started. You can process replacement payments as part of a manual payment or on demand payment.

Remediation Program

The system modifications necessary to make an agency’s computer system/application compatible with Workday using its associated FDM model, worktags, and values.

Remediated Integration Program

An integration containing Workday accounting values.

Related Calculation Workday Payroll

A calculation that returns a value, such as hours, rate, or percent, that can be used to resolve earnings and deductions, to display on pay results, or for other calculation purposes. [See also: pay component related calculation.]

Related Business Object Workday Cross Application

When defining a report, fields that return objects related to the primary business object are said to contain related business objects. These related objects may have their own set of fields that can be included in the report as well.

Reimbursable expenses Program

Amounts expended for or on account of the project that, in accordance with the terms of the appropriate agreement, are to be reimbursed by the agency/institution such as telephone charges and travel expenses in accordance with state guidelines.

Reference Pay Range Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)

A range of pay deemed appropriate for a compensation grade or grade profile. During compensation transactions, if proposed compensation for an employee extends beyond the limits of the range for the employee's grade or grade profile, Workday issues a warning yet still permits submission of the proposed compensation.