Summary of Data Validation and Audit Reports
As a payroll manager, you can use the reports listed in this table to perform these tasks.
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Identify and correct missing statutory data, and validate payroll setup data
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Identify potentially incorrect payments or amounts withheld using balance exceptions
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Review and verify retroactive entries and values
Report |
Purpose |
When to Run |
Example of Usage |
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Payroll Data Validation Report |
View a listing of noncompliant or missing statutory information for a payroll statutory unit (PSU), a tax reporting unit (TRU), and a person by PSU. |
Run before calculating payroll as needed. |
Identify any missing attributes based on statutory rules of the legislative data group, such as TRU association and association details for a person. |
Balance Exception Report |
Identify values that vary for the same balance dimension. This variance could indicate overpayments or underpayments. |
Run after calculating the payroll run or QuickPay run, or before running statutory reports, such as quarterly or annual reports. |
View to identify potentially incorrect payments or amounts withheld. |
Retroactive Entries Report |
View details of retroactive element entries created by the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process, and compare the original result to the recalculated result. |
Run every pay period. |
Review the retroactive entries for each person. For each entry, the original calculation result, if available, is shown and the corresponding retroactive entries that are created after comparing with that original result. |
Retroactive Notification Report |
View view retroactive notifications for events that are awaiting processing, deferred, or both. |
Run before you submit the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process |
Use this report to review: unprocessed retroactive events for each employee, enabling you to identify who are included in Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process. |