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Interface Tour: The Reporting Pane

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OfficeConnect adds two things to Excel: a ribbon tab and a Reporting pane that docks to the side of your worksheet.

The OfficeConnect ribbon tab

The OfficeConnect tab appears between your standard Excel tabs. Key buttons include:

Button	What it does
Log In / Log Out	Connect to or disconnect from your Workday tenant
Refresh	Pull the latest data from Adaptive Planning into all connected cells
Show Reporting Pane	Toggle the Reporting pane open or closed
Workbook Properties	Set rounding, data clearing, and filter defaults for the workbook
User Settings	Set your personal defaults (rounding, default instance, etc.)
Find / Replace	Find and replace elements across sheets
Labels	Add dynamic text labels (report date, level name, etc.)
Help	Access version info, documentation, and the troubleshooting tool

The OfficeConnect ribbon tab with Refresh, Show Reporting Pane, and other key buttons.

Add Elements to Rows, Columns & Cells

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Elements are the building blocks of an OfficeConnect report. You add them to rows, columns, or cells in your worksheet to define what data appears at each intersection.

Best practice: Add elements to entire rows and columns rather than individual cells. When applied to a row or column, a bolded (parent) element also expands its children — each child gets its own row or column automatically.

Basic steps

Select your target in the grid Click to select the cells, rows, or columns where you want data to appear. To select an entire row or column, click the row number or column letter.

Open the Elements tab in the Reporting pane Click Show Reporting Pane if the pane is hidden, then click the Elements tab.

Browse to the element you want

Expand the element tree to find what you need:

Work with Time & Contexts

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Time elements define which periods display in your report. Contexts add a calculation lens to those periods — like showing the year-to-date total instead of a single month’s value.

Time element types

Type	Description	Example
Absolute time	A fixed, named period	`FY 2025`, `Q1 2025`, `Jan 2025`
Relative time	A period relative to today’s date	`Current Month`, `Prior Year`
Components	Year/quarter/month components that combine at their intersection	Apply `FY 2025` to a row and `Q3` to a column → resolves to Q3 of FY 2025

Add a time element

Select a column (or row) Time is most commonly applied to columns so each column shows a different period.

In the Elements tab, expand Time Expand the calendar hierarchy to find the period you want: Year → Quarter → Month.

Drag the time element to your selection Drop it onto the selected column. Click Refresh.

The Time section in the Elements tab, expanded to show fiscal years, quarters, and individual months.

Filter Your Data

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Filters let you restrict report data by accounts, levels, versions, currencies, attributes, or custom dimensions — without adding those elements to rows or columns.

Worksheet vs workbook filters

Filter type	Scope	Precedence
Worksheet filter	Applies to one sheet only	Overrides workbook filters
Workbook filter	Applies to all sheets in the workbook	Lower precedence than worksheet filters

Apply a worksheet filter

Open the Filters tab in the Reporting pane In the Reporting pane, click the Filters tab.

Click Worksheet Filters The Worksheet Filters dialog opens. It shows any previously selected filters.

The Worksheet Filters dialog — browse or search the hierarchy to select which elements to filter by.

Cut, Copy & Move Elements

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OfficeConnect provides its own cut, copy, and paste commands that move elements together with their metadata.

Important: Always use OfficeConnect’s own cut/copy/paste commands — not Excel’s standard Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V. Excel’s clipboard doesn’t carry the OfficeConnect element metadata; only OfficeConnect commands do.

Three ways to cut, copy, and paste

Ribbon buttons: Use the functions in the OfficeConnect tab, not the Home tab.

Right-click menu: Right-click the cell, row, or column → OfficeConnect → Cut Elements or Copy Elements, then Paste Elements.

Review & Verify Applied Elements

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The Review tab in the Workday OfficeConnect Reporting pane shows you a complete picture of what’s driving data in your report. Use it to verify elements are applied correctly before sharing or distributing a report — especially after you’ve used Add Elements to assemble rows and columns.

What the Review tab shows

Select a cell, row, or column, then click the Review tab. The sections you see depend on your selection:

Workbook & Worksheet Properties

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Workday OfficeConnect has three levels of settings that control report behavior, each overriding the one above it. If you’re new to the Excel side of the product, get oriented with the Reporting Pane Tour first — these properties dialogs all hang off that same ribbon.

User Settings — your personal defaults for all new workbooks
Workbook Properties — settings for the current workbook (overrides User Settings)
Selection Properties — settings for a specific row, column, or cell (overrides Workbook Properties)

User Settings

Access via OfficeConnect ribbon → User Settings.

Create Repeating Reports

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The Repeating Reports feature in Workday OfficeConnect copies a finished report worksheet once for each element you choose — for example, one sheet per cost center or one sheet per region. Each copy is automatically filtered to show data for its element. Start from a polished single-sheet template, such as the one built in Build a Department P&L Report.

What it does

When you create repeating reports, OfficeConnect:

Copies the worksheet for each selected element
Applies one element as a filter to each copy
Optionally refreshes each copy automatically
Names each worksheet based on your naming convention
Preserves all Excel formatting, formulas, and OfficeConnect metadata

Once created, each repeating report is independent — it’s not linked to the original. To update them with new report formatting, delete and recreate them.

Cell Explorer & Drill-Down

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When a number in your Workday OfficeConnect report looks unexpected, Explore Cell lets you drill into the contributing details to find the source. It pairs naturally with Review & Verify Applied Elements — Review shows which elements drive a cell, while Explore Cell shows the underlying data behind the result.

What Explore Cell shows

For any cell with data, Explore Cell reveals:

Detail	Description
Contributing rows	The specific data intersections driving the value
Account details	Rollup values and links to child accounts
Level details	Rollup values and links to child levels
Time details	Breakdown by time period
Audit trail	Change history (if Audit Trail is enabled in Adaptive Planning)
Other sheets	Links to other sheets that show the same value
Source drills	Drill into Transactions, Workday objects, or NetSuite (if configured)

Note: Explore Cell applies to the Adaptive Planning data source. For the Financials data source, use Show Details instead, which shows contributing journal line and plan line details.

Build Your First OfficeConnect Report

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This tutorial walks through building a basic departmental expense report from an empty workbook to a live, refreshable OfficeConnect report. By the end you will have a working report that pulls real data from Adaptive Planning with one click.

What you’ll need:

OfficeConnect installed and connected to your Workday tenant (Get Started)
An Adaptive Planning instance with at least one version of data loaded
A blank Excel workbook

Step 1 — Open the Reporting pane

Open Excel and activate OfficeConnect Open Excel. On the OfficeConnect ribbon tab, click Open Pane. The Reporting pane appears on the right side of the screen.

Sign in if prompted If the pane shows a sign-in prompt, click Sign In and complete the Workday authentication flow. See Sign In and Create a Tenant if you need help.

The Reporting pane docked to the right after clicking Open Pane, with the Elements tab active.

Create a Rolling 12-Month Report

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A rolling 12-month report always shows the current month plus the 11 preceding months — no matter when you open it. This tutorial shows how to build one using OfficeConnect’s relative time contexts so the columns update automatically on each refresh.

What you’ll need:

An existing OfficeConnect workbook or a blank one (Build Your First Report)
Your Adaptive Planning instance populated with at least 12 months of actuals or forecast data

How rolling time works in OfficeConnect

OfficeConnect supports relative time contexts — time elements that are defined as offsets from the current period rather than as fixed calendar months. When you use Current Month, Current Month -1, Current Month -2, etc., OfficeConnect resolves each offset at refresh time against the current date.

Publish a Report to PowerPoint

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This tutorial covers linking an OfficeConnect Excel report into a PowerPoint presentation. Once linked, refreshing OfficeConnect in Excel automatically updates the numbers in your slides — no copy-pasting needed.

What you’ll need:

A finished OfficeConnect Excel report with data populated (Build Your First Report)
PowerPoint (Microsoft 365 or Office 2019+)
OfficeConnect installed on the same machine

How Excel-to-PowerPoint linking works

OfficeConnect for PowerPoint creates links between named ranges or tables in your Excel workbook and shapes in your PowerPoint slides. When you click Refresh in PowerPoint, OfficeConnect re-reads the current Excel values and updates the slide content — even if you are not looking at the Excel file at the time.

Build a Budget vs. Actuals Variance Report

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A budget vs. actuals variance report puts your plan and your reality in the same view. This tutorial walks through building one in OfficeConnect with a variance column that calculates automatically in Excel.

What you’ll build: A report with monthly actuals and budget columns for each account, plus a variance column showing the difference — all refreshable from Adaptive Planning.

What you’ll need:

OfficeConnect installed and connected to an Adaptive Planning tenant (Get Started)
An Adaptive Planning model with at least one Budget version and actuals loaded for the same period
Basic familiarity with adding elements (Add Elements)

Step 1 — Set up your account rows

Open a workbook and activate OfficeConnect Open Excel and click the OfficeConnect tab in the ribbon. Sign in if prompted. The Reporting pane opens on the right.

Add your first account Click cell A3 — this will hold your first account label. In the Reporting pane, expand Accounts and drag Revenue (or your top-line account) into A3. OfficeConnect inserts a formula that resolves to the account name.

Add remaining account rows Click A4, A5, A6, and so on. Drag in each account you need: Cost of Goods Sold, Gross Profit, Operating Expenses, Net Income. Place each in its own row. For rollup accounts, OfficeConnect automatically aggregates child accounts.

Step 2 — Add Actuals and Budget version columns

Add an Actuals column header Click cell B1. In the Reporting pane, expand Versions and drag your Actuals version into B1. OfficeConnect labels the cell with the version name.

Add a Budget column header Click cell C1. Drag your Budget version into C1.

Add a time context Click cell B2. In the Reporting pane, expand Time and drag the period you want to report on (for example, the current month or a full year) into B2. Copy B2 into C2 — both columns share the same time context.

Step 3 — Build the data cells and variance column

Populate the first data row Click B3. OfficeConnect formulas reference the version in row 1 and the time in row 2, so B3 automatically resolves to Actuals for your chosen period. Copy B3 across to C3 — C3 resolves to Budget for the same period.

Add a variance column header Click D1 and type Variance. Click D2 and type $ (or leave it blank — this cell doesn’t need an OfficeConnect element).

Write the variance formula

Click D3 and enter:

Build a Department P&L Report in OfficeConnect

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A department P&L shows revenue, expenses, and net income for each business unit in the same workbook. OfficeConnect’s Level dimension makes this straightforward — one row set per department, all pulling live data from the same Adaptive Planning model.

What you’ll build: A P&L report with accounts as rows and departments as column groups, refreshable from Adaptive Planning.

What you’ll need:

OfficeConnect connected to an Adaptive Planning tenant with Levels configured for your org structure
An Adaptive Planning model with P&L accounts (Revenue, COGS, OpEx, Net Income)

Step 1 — Set up your P&L account rows

Open Excel and activate OfficeConnect Open Excel, click the OfficeConnect tab, and sign in. The Reporting pane opens on the right.

Add your P&L account hierarchy Click cell A3. In the Reporting pane, expand Accounts and drag Revenue into A3. Continue in rows A4–A7 with: Cost of Goods Sold, Gross Profit, Operating Expenses, and Net Income. Gross Profit and Net Income are typically rollup accounts — OfficeConnect aggregates their child accounts automatically.

Step 2 — Add department (Level) columns

Add your version and time context Click B1 and drag your version (e.g., Actuals) from the Reporting pane into it. Click B2 and drag your time period (e.g., full year or current month) into it.

Add the first department Level element Click B3. In the Reporting pane, expand Levels and find your first department (e.g., Sales). Drag it into B3. OfficeConnect creates a formula that pulls data for the Actuals version, the time in B2, and the Sales level.

Copy B3 down for all account rows Copy B3 down to B4:B7. Each row picks up its own account from column A while sharing the Level in B3’s formula structure.

Add remaining departments Repeat Step 4–5 for each department, placing each in its own column (C, D, E, etc.). Add column headers in row 1 with the department name — you can type these as labels or drag the Level element into row 1 and OfficeConnect will label it automatically.

Step 3 — Add a company total column

Add a Total column In the rightmost column header row, drag your top-level Level (the parent of all departments) from the Reporting pane. This gives you a company-wide total column that rolls up all departments. Alternatively, use an Excel SUM formula across the department columns.

Step 4 — Refresh and verify

Refresh the report Click Refresh in the OfficeConnect ribbon. All department columns populate from Adaptive Planning.

Spot-check totals Confirm that each department’s Gross Profit = Revenue − COGS, and that Net Income = Gross Profit − Operating Expenses. If rollup accounts are showing unexpected values, check that the account hierarchy in your Adaptive Planning model is configured correctly.

Next steps

Add a budget or prior-year comparison column — see Budget vs. Actuals Variance
Protect the report for distribution — see Lock and Protect Reports
Publish to PowerPoint — see OfficeConnect for PowerPoint

Build a Year-over-Year Trend Report

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A year-over-year trend report shows how each month compares to the same month last year — useful for spotting seasonal patterns and measuring real growth. OfficeConnect’s time elements let you pin both years in the same report.

What you’ll build: A report with 12 months of current-year actuals alongside 12 months of prior-year actuals, plus a YoY variance row.

What you’ll need:

OfficeConnect connected to an Adaptive Planning tenant with at least two full years of actuals
Familiarity with adding elements (Add Elements) and time contexts (Time and Contexts)

Step 1 — Set up current-year monthly columns

Open Excel and activate OfficeConnect Open Excel and click the OfficeConnect tab. Sign in if prompted.

Add your Actuals version Click B1. In the Reporting pane, expand Versions and drag your Actuals version into B1. This version applies to all columns that share row 1.

Add current-year monthly time elements Click B2. In the Reporting pane, expand Time → Months and find January of the current year (e.g., Jan 2026). Drag it into B2. Continue across row 2 — C2 through M2 — adding Feb 2026 through Dec 2026. You should have 12 monthly time elements across row 2.

Step 2 — Set up prior-year monthly columns

Add prior-year Actuals version Click N1. Drag your Actuals version into N1. (It’s the same version — the time elements in row 2 control which year’s data loads.)

Add prior-year monthly time elements Click N2. Drag Jan 2025 into N2. Continue across — O2 through Y2 — adding Feb 2025 through Dec 2025.

Step 3 — Add account rows

Add your primary account Click A3. In the Reporting pane, expand Accounts and drag your key account (e.g., Revenue) into A3.

Populate the data row Click B3. OfficeConnect formulas reference the version in row 1 and the time in row 2, so B3 returns Jan 2026 Actuals for Revenue. Copy B3 across to Y3 — each cell picks up the correct month and year from its column.

Add remaining account rows Copy row 3 down for each additional account. Add more accounts to column A as needed.

Step 4 — Add YoY variance

Add a variance section header In column Z row 1, type YoY Variance. Leave Z2 empty.

Add monthly variance formulas

In B4 (one row below your last account row, or in a dedicated variance row), enter:

Compare Two Planning Versions Side by Side

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Any OfficeConnect report can show multiple versions at once. Here’s how to add a second version column alongside your existing data.

Steps

Open your OfficeConnect workbook and click the OfficeConnect tab.
Click an empty column header cell (for example, C1 if your existing data is in column B).
In the Reporting pane, expand Versions and drag the second version (e.g., Forecast) into C1.
Click C2 and drag the same time element you used in B2 into C2. Both columns now share the same time period.

Add Headcount Data to a Financial Report

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OfficeConnect doesn’t separate financial and workforce accounts — they’re all elements in your Adaptive Planning model. You can add headcount rows to any financial report by dragging the right accounts from the Reporting pane.

Steps

Open your financial report in Excel and click the OfficeConnect tab.
Click an empty row below your financial accounts — for example, A10 if your P&L ends at row 9.
In the Reporting pane, expand Accounts and look for your workforce accounts. Common names include:

Lock and Protect Reports for Distribution

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When you share an OfficeConnect report with people who shouldn’t edit it, Excel’s sheet protection prevents accidental changes. The catch: you must leave OfficeConnect formula cells unlocked, or Refresh will fail with a “sheet is protected” error.

How OfficeConnect cells work with protection

OfficeConnect stores data in formula cells. When you click Refresh, OfficeConnect writes new values into those cells. If the sheet is protected and those cells are locked, Refresh fails. The solution: unlock the OfficeConnect cells before protecting the sheet.

Set Up Scenario Comparison in OfficeConnect

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Scenarios in Adaptive Planning are planning alternatives within a version — for example, a Base Case, Upside, and Downside within your annual Budget version. OfficeConnect can display multiple scenarios in the same report, making it easy to show a range of outcomes.

Before you begin

Scenarios must be configured in your Adaptive Planning model before they appear in OfficeConnect. If you don’t see scenarios in the Reporting pane, ask your Adaptive Planning administrator to confirm they are enabled and that you have read access.

Report in Constant Currency in OfficeConnect

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Constant currency reporting holds foreign exchange rates fixed at a baseline period so you can see underlying business performance without FX noise. In Adaptive Planning, this is done through a dedicated constant currency version. OfficeConnect surfaces that version like any other — you just need to know which one to select.

How constant currency works in Adaptive Planning

Your Adaptive Planning administrator sets up a constant currency version by configuring currency conversion rules that use a fixed rate (for example, the prior-year average rate or a budget rate). When you report against this version, all values are translated at that fixed rate regardless of the reporting period.

Build a Formatted Executive Report for Distribution

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A raw OfficeConnect report shows the right numbers, but an executive report needs to look the part. This tutorial walks through building a formatted P&L summary with branding, clean layout, and print-ready page setup — the kind of report you can share as a PDF without touching it in PowerPoint first.

What you’ll build: A one-page executive P&L summary with a header, logo, formatted number columns, and page layout configured for PDF export.

Work with Custom Dimensions and Attributes in OfficeConnect

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Adaptive Planning models often include custom dimensions beyond the standard account and level hierarchy — things like Product Line, Region, Project Code, or Customer Segment. OfficeConnect exposes these as Custom Dimensions in the Reporting pane, letting you filter and report on any segment your model defines.

What you’ll need:

OfficeConnect connected to an Adaptive Planning model that includes custom dimensions
Familiarity with building basic reports — see Budget vs. Actuals Variance

Find your custom dimensions in the Reporting pane

Open the OfficeConnect Reporting pane. Scroll down past Accounts, Versions, Time, and Levels to find the Custom Dimensions section (it may also appear as Dimensions depending on your OfficeConnect version). Expand Custom Dimensions to see the dimensions your model administrator has defined. Each dimension has members — for example, a “Region” dimension might have members: North America, EMEA, APAC.

Build a Quarterly Board Pack

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A board pack is the quarterly artifact every finance team produces and the one most prone to last-minute spreadsheet panic. This tutorial walks through building a structured, multi-sheet Workday OfficeConnect workbook that acts as the single source for your quarterly board deck — P&L summary, KPI page, variance commentary, and cash snapshot — with each tab designed to link directly into PowerPoint.

What you’ll build: A four-tab Excel workbook (P&L, KPIs, Variance, Cash) with consistent formatting, refreshable from Adaptive Planning, and ready to link to slides.

Build a KPI Dashboard

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A KPI dashboard is the one page an executive will actually read. This tutorial walks through building a single-sheet Workday OfficeConnect dashboard with six to eight large-format tiles — Revenue, OpEx, Headcount, EBITDA margin, and so on — each refreshable from your Adaptive Planning model and each showing how the current period compares to the prior one.

What you’ll build: A formatted Excel sheet with KPI tiles, each containing a current-period value, a prior-period value, and a delta — all driven by single OfficeConnect cells.

Build an Operating Expense Waterfall

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A waterfall walk is how finance teams explain why a number moved. Instead of just showing OpEx went from $4.2M to $4.6M, a waterfall breaks the $400K change into its components — new hires, marketing program, software renewal, T&E reduction. This tutorial walks through building one in Workday OfficeConnect using a native Excel waterfall chart with live Adaptive Planning data.

What you’ll build: A two-column table of OpEx changes by account category, paired with an Excel waterfall chart that shows prior month, the adds and reductions in between, and the current month total.

Build a Forecast Accuracy Report

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Every FP&A team is asked the same question eventually: how accurate is the forecast? A forecast accuracy report answers that question with math, not anecdote. This tutorial walks through building one in Workday OfficeConnect — comparing a prior forecast version (for example, the forecast made three months ago) against actuals, then calculating absolute error and MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error) by account and period.

What you’ll build: A table with Forecast, Actual, Absolute Error, and Error % columns by account and month, plus a MAPE summary row.

Build a Workforce Plan with Attrition

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Workforce planning is where most operating expense lives, and getting it right means modeling both sides of the headcount equation — the hires you plan to add and the people who’ll leave naturally. This tutorial walks through building a Workday OfficeConnect workforce plan with attrition baked in, broken out by organizational Level, with fully-loaded cost per FTE calculated alongside.

What you’ll build: A report that shows beginning headcount, attrition losses, planned hires, ending headcount, and fully-loaded cost — by Level, by month, for the next 12 months.

Build a Sales Pipeline-to-Revenue Forecast

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Pipeline-to-revenue forecasting bridges the gap between the CRM and the financial model. Instead of treating bookings as a single top-down number, this approach builds the forecast bottom-up from deal stages and probabilities. This tutorial walks through assembling a probability-weighted revenue forecast in Workday OfficeConnect, assuming your pipeline data is already loaded into Adaptive Planning through a custom dimension.

What you’ll build: A report that lists pipeline by stage, applies a stage-weighted probability, and projects expected revenue by month for the next two quarters.

Build a Multi-Entity Consolidations Report

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Multi-entity consolidation is one of the harder reporting problems in finance — you need to roll up several legal entities, eliminate intercompany activity, and produce a view that ties to the consolidated P&L. This tutorial walks through building a consolidations report in Workday OfficeConnect that lays out each entity in its own column, calls out intercompany eliminations explicitly, and totals to a consolidated view.

What you’ll build: A P&L report with one column per legal entity, a dedicated Eliminations column, and a Consolidated total column — all refreshable from Adaptive Planning.

Build a Cohort Revenue Retention Report

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For SaaS and subscription businesses, cohort retention is the most important diagnostic in the model — it answers whether customers are staying and expanding. This tutorial walks through building a Workday OfficeConnect cohort revenue retention report with one row per signup cohort, retained revenue across each subsequent month, and a net revenue retention (NRR) percentage at the right edge.

What you’ll build: A triangular cohort matrix showing each signup cohort’s starting revenue across its starting month and every subsequent month, with NRR computed at the 12-month mark.

Build a Capital Expenditure Tracker

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Capital expenditure usually starts the year as a tidy plan and ends it as a sprawling list of in-flight projects and reforecasts. A good CapEx tracker keeps the picture coherent — project by project, plan vs. actual, with a clear view of remaining spend. This tutorial walks through building one in Workday OfficeConnect using a Project Code custom dimension in Adaptive Planning.

What you’ll build: A project-level tracker with Planned, Actual YTD, Forecast Remaining, Total Forecast, and Variance to Plan columns — refreshable from Adaptive Planning.

Build a 13-Week Cash Forecast

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The 13-week cash forecast is the treasury team’s most-used artifact. It projects weekly cash inflows and outflows over a rolling window so leadership can see liquidity coming weeks before it arrives — or fails to. This tutorial walks through building one in Workday OfficeConnect against a model with weekly cash forecasting enabled.

What you’ll build: A treasury-format report with 13 weekly columns showing Beginning Balance, Receipts (by category), Disbursements (by category), Net Cash Flow, and Ending Balance — refreshable from Adaptive Planning.