Balance Adjustment Prerequisites for the US

Before performing a balance adjustment, you must have completed these tasks.

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What you need to do

How you do it

Complete the setup of your organization

For further info, see Define Enterprise Structures for the US in the Help Center.

Create definitions for your employees, and attach payrolls to them

This occurs when you perform the Hire an Employee task for the person.

Use the Employment task to assign a payroll to a person definition that doesn't already have one.

For further info, see Personal Payroll Info for the US in the Help Center.

Establish eligibility links

To perform adjustments on an element, you must have created their eligibility links.

For further info, see Element Eligibility in the Help Center.

Establish balance feeds

To perform adjustments on an element, you must have created an eligibility link.

If you're performing a balance adjustment on an employee tax element, you must create balance feeds for these balances.

  • Net Pay

  • Gross Pay

  • Any balances associated with the employee tax-deduction element

For example, if you're adjusting an employee tax deduction, you configure balance feeds for:
  • Net pay

  • Gross pay

  • Balances associated with the Employer Liability element

However, if you were performing a balance adjustment for a 401 (k) deferred compensation element, no action is needed. The Elements task automatically sets up the necessary balance feeds for elements of that type.

For further info, see Balance Feeds for the US in the Help Center.