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From Corporate Regulatory Reporting, you can prepare reports for regulatory governmental agencies such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) or General Services Administration (GSA), or global tax authorities for country-by-country reporting (CbCR).

Note: From Settings, a Workspace Owner must first set up your company's reports based on their types and reporting periods, as well as details including your reports' entities and data collection sources and assignees. To learn more, view Set up Corporate Regulatory Reporting.

Add forms to report

From Reports, you can view and manage reports based on the types and reporting periods set up for your workspace. Before you start a report, add its applicable forms.

From Corporate Regulatory Reporting, select Reports, then expand the reporting type and click Add forms note_add, or select Add forms from its menu.

• If the report's forms require scoping — such as for US Bureau of Economic Analysis form BE-11 — select the form class to file for each entity in the report, then click Add forms.
  

  Tip: To help decide the form class to file for an entity, click Show form criteria to review each class's scope and criteria. If your workspace has Workiva AI enabled, click AI recommendations for suggested form classes based on each entity's characteristics, and adjust the recommended selections as needed.

• If the report doesn't require scoping, click Save.

Start report

After you add forms to a report, you can start to curate their responses through:

• Data imported from your Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system or another source
• Data collection by assigned subject matter experts (SMEs) and other workspace members
• Manual entry in the report's form fields

To begin to curate responses for an active report's forms: 

1. From Corporate Regulatory Reporting, click Start report.
   
2. In Filing name, enter a name to help identify the instance of the report, such as based on its reporting year and period.
   
3. Select the type of report to run.
4. Select the start and due dates for the reporting period.

5. In Data collection due date, select the final due date for manual data collection.

   Note: Select a Data collection due date between the Start date and Due date.

6. Click Next step.

7. Select the source data to use with the report, and click Save.
   

   Tip: To add new source data for the report, click Import additional source files to import the data from a Workiva Spreadsheet, Wdata Query, or comma-separated values (CSV) file.

When you start the report, it automatically:

• Populates its form fields with mapped data from imported source data

  Tip: To update the report with newly imported source data, select Refresh data from its menu in Reports. To learn more, view Import source data for Corporate Regulatory Reporting.

• Sends data collection tasks to its form fields' assignees, as configured in Settings

  Tip: From Reports, the Process Owner can manage the report's Process, such as to track data collection or send reminders. To learn more, view Prepare responses for Corporate Regulatory Reporting.

• Enables its forms fields for manual data entry from Reports

Generate submission files

Depending on the agency or report, you may need to submit a form or responses through an online portal, email address, or another channel. From Reports, you can generate and download the files required for submission, depending on the report and agency.

Note: A report's form fields display numerical values as raw data. When you generate submission files, the report may round the values as necessary for the agency.

Record receipt of report submission

When you submit a report to an agency, they provide a receipt for your records. To record a report's submission, upload its receipt for the reporting period.

Note: You can upload a submission receipt as a JPG, PNG, TXT, HTML, or PDF file, up to 10.5 MB.

1. From Corporate Regulatory Reporting, select Reports.
2. From the report's menu, select Record receipt.
   
3. In Receipt file, click Choose file, then browse to and select the submission receipt for the report's reporting period and click Record receipt.
   

After you record a submission receipt, you can manage it necessary from the report's menu:

• To export a copy of the receipt — such as to provide evidence of the report's submission — select Download receipt, and select the version of the receipt to export.
• To replace the receipt with a new file, select Record receipt and upload its replacement.

Archive reports

To retain reports and their responses but no longer view them in Reports, archive their report type:

1. From Corporate Regulatory Reporting, select Reports, then select In progress or Completed, depending on the status of the type's reports.
2. From the report type's menu, select Archive.

Tip: To resume use of an archived report type, select Archived in Reports, then select Unarchive from its menu.

Edit report details

To edit the details of a report — such as its name, dates, or source data — select Reports in Corporate Regulatory Reporting, then select Edit from its type's menu.

Tip: To edit a report's responses, select Edit from its form's Actions. To learn more, view Prepare responses for Corporate Regulatory Reporting.

Export responses to Spreadsheet

To save a report's responses as a Spreadsheet, such as for review or retention elsewhere in your workspace:

1. From Corporate Regulatory Reporting, select Reports.
2. From the report's menu, select Export to Workiva sheets.

Tip: You can find the Spreadsheet in Files, with a name that includes the form class, report type, and timestamp of the export.