Payroll control - RA issue

Question

1. In payroll, Which retro active date takes precedence ?
Assume an employee is having payroll area A1
a. Payroll control record -> Earliest retro acctg period for Payroll area A1 - 01.12.2011
b. Emp X, who belongs to Payroll area A1 -> Earl.pers.RA date -> 01.11.2011
Which takes precedence?
c. When running payoll for emp x, with forced retro as 01.09.2011, which date will apply ?
2. Is there any program to 'release' payroll control area automatically / should be done by
   payroll admin manually ?
Thanks!
any updates ?
Edited by: ilovesaphr on Feb 22, 2012 7:21 AM

Answer 1

1. In payroll, Which retro active date takes precedence ?
[Answer]: Earliest MD Change Date.
Assume an employee is having payroll area A1
a. Payroll control record -> Earliest retro acctg period for Payroll area A1 - 01.12.2011
b. Emp X, who belongs to Payroll area A1 -> Earl.pers.RA date -> 01.11.2011
Which takes precedence?
[Answer]: In your case, no retro data can be maintain earlier than 01.12.2011 since A1 is set. However, if the data is created before Earliest retro acctg period for Payroll area A1, it will run error normally.
c. When running payoll for emp x, with forced retro as 01.09.2011, which date will apply ?
[Answer]: In PY driver [PC00_MXX_CALC], you can forced the employee to run retro payroll. Or, Earliest MD Change Date / Earliest Personnel RA Date is also another option but need to make sure the PY area's earliest retro should be EARLIER or equal to the same period. Otherwise, you may face error during payroll run.
2. Is there any program to 'release' payroll control area automatically / should be done by
payroll admin manually ?
[Answer]: You may do Payroll Calendar in the configuration, but I have never try it before because it is lack of flexibilities....I would say doing it manually is always better because you need to consider exception cases / weekends / public holidays / etc/
Thanks!
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