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Statewide Accounting glossary

This is a list of terms used within the Washington Administrative and Accounting Manual (WAAM) and within Workday. To find a term, enter it in in the search box, and select 'Apply'.

Termsort descending Category Definition
Base Currency Financial

Also know as default currency. The primary currency in which a company does business and reporting. For financial accounting, a company must have a base currency defined.

Biennium

A two-year fiscal period. The Washington state biennium runs from July 1 of an odd-numbered year to June 30 of the next oddnumbered year

Bond

A debt instrument issued through a formal legal procedure and secured either by the pledge of specific properties or revenues or by the general credit of the state. Examples include bid bond, performance and payment bond. See: Form C-100 (2014) Section G.

Budget

A plan of financial operation embodying an estimate of proposed expenditures for a given period of time or purpose and the proposed means of financing them.

Budget control & execution

The ability to define an agency's plan of estimated expenditures, revenues, cash disbursements, and cash receipts for each month of the biennium.

Budget Development System (BDS)

An enterprise application developed as a tool to assist agencies in building all components of the decision package and submitting operating and transportation budget requests online. The new Agency Budget System (ABS) replaced BDS in June of 2018.

Budget drivers

Caseload, economic, or demographic factors that have a significant effect on the state budget. Examples include inflation rate changes and state population changes in certain age groups.

Budget Evaluation Study Team Study (BEST)

Review of a project's predesign study by an independent qualified multi-disciplined team using the value engineering methodology.

Budget Structure Financial

Criteria for building budget or forecast budgets. Types of budget structures include financial, staffing and position. Budget structures can be configured to require approval, organized by dimension type (such as cost center or region), and updated with amendments.

Budgetary control

The establishment of budgets and the continuous comparison between actual and budgeted results.

Budgeted accounts

Accounts that are subject to the appropriation and/or allotment process.

Budgeted fund

A fund whose expenditures are subject to appropriation if held in the state treasury or subject to allotment if held outside the state treasury.

Business Function

The five (5) major business areas that will be supported by the ERP solution (i.e., Finance, Procurement, H/R, Payroll, and Budget).

Business Intelligence (BI)

A tool to transform business data into meaningful and useful information.

Business Object Cross Application

Workday stores your data as business objects—organizations, workers, positions, and so on—which can be thought of as database tables or worksheets in Excel. Just as a database table or worksheet has columns and rows, a Workday business object has fields and instances. A business object is composed of a set of related fields, similar to how a table or spreadsheet is composed of a set of related columns. Instances of a business object in Workday are like rows in a table or spreadsheet, with each instance representing a unique occurrence of that type of object such as an organization or worker. A business object can have no instances, one instance, or many instances. Workday automatically links related business objects together. For example, purchase order lines are linked to a purchase order header, the purchase order header is linked to a supplier, the supplier is linked to a company, and so on.

Business Process Definition Cross Application

The set of tasks that need to be completed for an event to occur, the order in which they must be done, and who must do them. Workday includes a number of predefined business processes for different purposes. You can edit the default definitions for your organization. You can also create different versions of the same business process for different organizations.

Business Process Instance Cross Application

A business process that the initiator has started. For example, the Hire Employee for Organization X business process definition becomes an instance when the initiator uses it to hire a particular applicant.

Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

The visionary team that bridges the gap between your current processes and the future state. They leverage their expertise to assist agencies in seamlessly integrating with Workday, providing process maps and collaborative consulting.

Business Process Security Policy Cross Application

A business process security policy secures the initiation step, step actions and process-wide actions including view, rescind, cancel and correct. It specifies which security groups that have access to each action.

Buyer

See: Purchaser

Cancel (business process) Cross Application

Canceling a business process stops the workflow in progress and reverses any changes made to Workday data. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy.

Capital addition

An addition expands or extends an existing fixed asset. An example of an addition would be the construction of a new wing for a correctional institution. New construction attached to an existing structure as an extension is an addition. Generally, additions involve alterations within existing buildings to make connections.

Capital assets

Tangible or intangible assets held and used in state operations which have a service life of more than one year and meet the state's capitalization policy. Capital assets of the state include land, infrastructure, improvements to land, buildings, leasehold improvements, vehicles, furnishings, equipment, collections and all other tangible and intangible assets that are used in state operations.

Capital budget and ten-year capital plan

The long-term financing and expenditure plan for acquisition, construction, or improvement of capital assets such as land and buildings, and for programs that accomplish facility improvements. The capital budget is included in an appropriation bill for a specific biennium; the Ten-Year Capital Plan is proposed by the Governor but not enacted into law.

Capital budget preparation

Creation of the long-term financing and expenditure pan for acquisition, construction, or improvement of capital assets such as land and buildings, and for programs that accomplish facility improvements. The capital budget is included in an appropriation bill for a specific biennium; the Ten-Year Capital Plan is proposed by the Governor but not enacted into law.

Capital Budgeting System (CBS)

An enterprise application that allows development and submittal of agency capital budget requests online.

Capital outlays

Expenditures for the acquisition of, addition to, or major repair of fixed assets intended to benefit future periods. In the operating budget, this label typically refers to equipment.

Carry-forward level

A projected expenditure level created by calculating the biennialized cost of decisions already recognized in appropriations by the Legislature. These adjustments include workload and service changes directed by the Legislature and deletion of costs considered nonrecurring

Cash disbursements

Cash disbursements are any moneys (e.g., checks, cash, warrants, credit or debit card amounts, or Electronic Fund Transfers (EFTs)) paid by the state during a period regardless of when the related obligations are incurred.

Cash receipts

Cash receipts are any moneys (e.g., checks, cash, warrants, credit or debit card amounts, or EFTs) received by the state during a period regardless of when the moneys are earned.

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