An accumulation period is a period of time to accumulate earnings or deductions for a purpose. Dayforce can use them when applying limits on earnings or deductions, calculating earnings or deduction amounts, or configuring totals to include in the Payroll Register Report and employee earning statements.
In Payroll Setup > Accumulation Period, you can create your own accumulation periods based on a specific number of days, weeks, or months, or the duration of a benefits plan or fiscal calendar period.
For more information about how accumulation periods are used to apply limits to earnings and deductions, see Configure Earning Limits and Configure Deduction Limits.
Accumulation periods are also used to calculate generated earnings or deductions in Dayforce. Here are two ways you might use them.
- As parameters in the Dayforce expression builder, which is a feature that can calculate earnings or deductions. For example, an expression can reference an employee’s regular earnings amount for the fiscal year to date when calculating another earning. The accumulation periods, including the ones you've created, are found in the Type Attribute field for parameters in the expression builder. See "Calculated Parameters" in the "Elements of an Expression" section of the Expression Builder Guide.
- To display earning and deduction totals for a specified period (such as year to date) in the Payroll Register Report or employee earning statements. You can configure this in the reporting options of earning and deduction groupings. See Deduction and Earning Groupings.
| Accumulation Period | Description |
|---|---|
| Current pay | The current pay period. |
| Fiscal to date |
Month, quarter, or year. The current totals accumulated up to the current date for the selected pay period in the fiscal calendar that is assigned to an employee’s legal entity. See The Fiscal Calendar Tab. |
| Last period |
Month, pay period, quarter, or year. Totals accumulated in the previous selected period. |
| Lifetime | Totals accumulated to date. |
| Current period |
Month, quarter, or year to date. The current totals accumulated up to the current date for the selected period. |
You can create payroll accumulation periods to meet your needs by using the following topics: