As a payroll administrator, there might be times that you are required to make corrections or adjustments to payroll so that employees' pay accurately reflect their earnings, deductions, and taxes.
There are a number of ways to make corrections and adjustments to payroll in Dayforce:
- Adjusting time and attendance with the Workforce Management (WFM) module
- Creating checks, quick entries, or adjustments in the pay run module
Many adjustments or corrections having to do with time and attendance can be done to an employee’s time and attendance records through the WFM features of Dayforce, changes that automatically flow through to the Payroll module for calculation and processing.
On the other hand, you might have to create either a check or a quick entry to make a correction to employee earnings or deductions in Payroll directly. By entering the corrections as a check (in the Checks sub-tab) or as a quick entry (in the Quick Entry sub-tab), Dayforce calculates the changes as part of payroll processing, accounting for any changes to taxation that could result from using different earning or deduction definitions in the quick entries. If there is any chance that employee taxes might be impacted by a correction, it is strongly advised that you use quick entries or checks to ensure that Dayforce automatically performs the necessary calculations to account for changes to taxation.
You might also have to make an adjustment in the Adjustments sub-tab. The Adjustments sub-tab should generally be used if there is no chance that employee taxes might be impacted by the adjustment, or if the adjustment is for employer taxes, which do not impact employee taxes.
In addition to correcting the current pay period before committing pay, you can also make prior period adjustments to reclassify earnings or deductions from past pay periods that have already been committed and paid.
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