What Happens to Balance Effective Dates During Employee Transfers for the US

The Local and Global Transfer process uses the Transfer Balances flow to copy balance info.

The flow performs these two tasks.

Note: The value on the source balance may be as of a different date than the date of the transfer.

Task name	What it does
Balance Fetch	Although the global transfer happens on a specific date, the Transfer Balances process doesn't necessarily fetch the copied balance values on that date. Payroll calculations can't go out of sequence within a payroll relationship. The process fetches balances as of the dimension end date to include the balance values impacted by the future run results up to that date.
Balance Adjustment	The Local and Global Transfer process adjusts balances as of the transfer date. If you run the Transfer Balances flow after the transfer, it's possible that a subsequent payroll activity changed target record so it's no longer in sync with the source. In this case, the Transfer Balances flow would adjust the balances on the target payroll relationship as of these dates, whichever is later. Date of the last payroll run Start date of the balance dimension First Standard Earnings Date If this date is later than the end date of the balance dimension, the flow can't copy the balances because future payroll calculation results exist on the target payroll relationship.

Task name

What it does

Balance Fetch

Although the global transfer happens on a specific date, the Transfer Balances process doesn't necessarily fetch the copied balance values on that date. Payroll calculations can't go out of sequence within a payroll relationship. The process fetches balances as of the dimension end date to include the balance values impacted by the future run results up to that date.

Balance Adjustment

The Local and Global Transfer process adjusts balances as of the transfer date.

If you run the Transfer Balances flow after the transfer, it's possible that a subsequent payroll activity changed target record so it's no longer in sync with the source. In this case, the Transfer Balances flow would adjust the balances on the target payroll relationship as of these dates, whichever is later.

Date of the last payroll run
Start date of the balance dimension
First Standard Earnings Date

If this date is later than the end date of the balance dimension, the flow can't copy the balances because future payroll calculation results exist on the target payroll relationship.

For further info, see Overview of Copying Balances on the Help Center.