Understanding Payroll History Integrity

Before you begin processing year-end forms, you must verify the integrity of the historical information.

You verify the integrity of taxation and employment insurance (EI) information to ensure that you report the correct information to the government. If you discover errors, you must review each error to verify whether you need to make a change to the history.

To simplify the process of regularly verifying the payroll history integrity, you can set up the integrity reports to run during the final update step of each payroll cycle. The versions of these reports that you run during final update should be set up to run in proof mode.

You should also run these reports monthly, quarterly, and before you begin year-end processing.

You run integrity reports in proof mode to identify possible errors without changing any information in the history tables. You also run integrity reports in proof mode so that you can research errors before correcting and updating the appropriate tables.