Corrective Actions for Payroll Costing Results
These examples show you how to correct, adjust, or update costing information for a payroll run in several typical scenarios.
Correct Incorrect Costing
You receive information from a manager that an employee's housing allowance is charged to the incorrect department account. To review and correct the costing result, follow these steps:
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From the Person Process Results or Person Results page, choose Costing Results action
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Locate the element with the incorrect cost result.
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Review the costing setup information. Be sure to include any costing information entered for the person for the payroll run at the element entry level.
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Correct results based on the payroll phase, such as processing a cost adjustment or correcting and retrying the record.
Correct Unallocated Costing
Use the Process Results Summary to review the costing. You notice the graph shows the application has placed a costing entry in the default account.
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Click the graph for the Default Account to view the entries.
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Identify the records where the allocated costs fall below 100 percent.
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Update the costing setup information.
For example, if you allocated the cost of a person's wages to two departments, update the percentage allocated to each department on the Person Costing page.
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Correct the results based on the payroll phase by retrying the record, or processing a cost adjustment.
Update Costing for Future Change
You receive information from the accounting department that an account used to fund the salaries of employees assigned to a project will close at the end of the quarter. You must use a different account to fund and cost the wages at the start of the next quarter.
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Search for the latest payroll period costing entries to determine which departments, positions, and workers you pay from the current project fund.
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On the Manage Costing of Elements page, locate records with the account that will be closing.
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Update the costing setup for the wage element by specifying the date on which the new costing setup takes effect.
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Update the account number for the funding source.