The draft version of Chapter 100 – Budgets is available for review in WAAM (Washington Administrative and Accounting Manual), which will replace SAAM when the state moves to Workday.

After Workday go-live, much of the budget process will remain the same as today, but some things will change, such as: 

In the Workday Foundation Data Model (FDM), the Spend Category (SC) worktag is analogous to the AFRS sub-subobject codes. Most have a one-to-one relationship. However, the One Washington team has added more detailed SC codes to support reporting at a more granular level. Many, but not all, are in object J – Capital Outlays.

Some agencies would like to use the more detailed coding in BI27 so that (a) the transition from AFRS to Workday will be easier, and (b) reporting over the biennium will be more uniform even though expenditures will be in both AFRS and Workday.

It’s hard to believe it’s already been three years since we implemented GASB 87 for leases and two years since we implemented GASB 96 for SBITAs! This will be our second year utilizing DebtBook and we are hopeful the process will be much smoother for agencies.

As a reminder, annually agencies need to make sure they accomplish the following:

OFM has released WAAM Chapter 90 – Statewide Customers and Suppliers which provides more details about the process to register Statewide Customers and Suppliers.

Suppliers are required in Workday to process payments using a Supplier Invoice. Like statewide vendors today, Suppliers are set up and governed by the Office of Financial Management Statewide Registration Desk.