Exam Workday-Record-to-Report Topic 1 Question 1 Discussion

Comprehensive and Detailed 150 to 250 words of Explanation From Workday Record-to-Report/Course Guide/topics:
The auditor should begin by reviewing Workday's intercompany transaction and reconciliation reports to identify the specific documents, journal lines, currencies, periods, or affiliate worktags causing the difference between Company C and Company D. The Intercompany Work Area, Intercompany Out of Balance, Intercompany Elimination Out of Balance, and payables-and-receivables reconciliation reports provide controlled visibility into matched, unmatched, posted, and in-progress activity.
Deleting all intercompany transactions would destroy valid audit evidence and is not an acceptable reconciliation method. Reversing the entire population in the current period could create additional timing differences and would not identify the original cause. Manually overriding consolidated financial statements treats the symptom after consolidation rather than correcting the source records. Once the reports isolate the discrepancy, the accountant can determine whether it results from an unrecorded receipt, unmatched settlement, missing affiliate worktag, currency translation difference, incorrect account, or transaction posted in different periods. The appropriate source transaction, receipt, settlement, or correcting journal can then be processed and the reconciliation rerun. Reviewing the intercompany reports is therefore the mandatory diagnostic step before any accounting correction is authorized.
Official Workday reference: Workday - Setup Considerations: Direct Intercompany Activities; topics: Intercompany Work Area and out-of-balance reporting.