These reports provide information about the accuracy of the employee accrual calculations over the course of the school year. Employees that have an amount in the variance row may have inaccurate data on the Staff Job/Pay tabs and/or in the pay history.

For each accrued job the employee has on the Job Info tab, the report displays pay history and future accrual calculations as well as the employee name, employee number, job code, accrual code, and accrual rate.

Caution: The variance calculations are based on the data as it exists in that moment of time. Care should be taken when making changes to an employee that could impact accrual calculations. For example, changing an accrual code, accrual rate, or payoff date on the employee, the accrual calendar, or the pay dates table can affect the accrual calculations and accrual variances.

Payroll Accrual Variance Report by Name

• Pay history actual accrual balances display the total accrued amounts for all accounts that currently exist in history for all payrolls that have been processed.
• Future accruals display the total accrued amounts based on the unprocessed pay dates in the Pay Date table as well as the date range used to calculate the future accruals.
• The variance row will display the resulting accrual amounts that meet the minimum variance amount (as entered when the report is generated).
  • A negative amount in accrual variance means that the employee is under-accrued. These amounts will increase the employee's school YTD.
  • A positive amount in accrual variance means that the employee is over-accrued. These amounts will reduce the employee's school YTD.

It is important to note that as with all calculations, rounding may cause some small amounts to display in the Variance section. Adjust the minimum variance amount on the report and run the report again.

If the employee only has variances for the benefit columns (accrued pay variance is zero) and the amount of the variances of the columns is no more than 5 cents greater or 5 cents less than the benefit amount, the calculated values for the future payroll amounts are adjusted, and the variance amounts are reported as zero. If the accrued pay variance is zero and a variance amount for a benefit is greater than the 5-cent tolerance, all variances are reported as calculated and will include any amounts that are equal to or less then the 5-cent tolerance. If the accrued pay variance is not zero, the 5-cent tolerance is ignored, and all variances are reported as calculated.

Note: A report entitled Error for Payroll Accrual Variance - No Future Accruals is displayed at the end of this report if an employee has a failure message and that failure applies to the pay date reported and will cause the employee to not calculate accruals for future pay dates.

Example: On the Pay Dates table the following dates are unprocessed: 04-01-2019, 05-01-2019, 06-01-2019, 07-01-2019, and 08-01-2019. On the Accrual Calendar for accrual code H, the following pay dates are found: 04-01-2019, 05-01-2019, 06-01-2019, 07-02-2019, and 08-01-2019. Note that 07-01-2019 does not exist in the Accrual Calendar for the accrual code H; therefore, any employees that have that accrual code will receive a failure message for the 07-01-2019 pay date.