Coming Soon: Payroll Accounting Adjustments with Retro Periods

During the week of January 27, a new interface will be released for Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAA) for retroactive payroll posted on a paycheck. Once this change is made, if there is a retro pay period associated with the earnings needing to be moved, PAA Specialists will now need to select the correct retro period.

Prior to this change, budget date was the main driver of associating payroll with the pay period for which the earnings were intended. Moving forward, the Retro Period Date will associate the PAA with a pay period. The budget date will default to the budget date of the retro period.

This update will now tie Effort and PAAs for retroactive time in a more efficient way and allow for cleaner effort reporting. OSP is going to delay running September - December effort to allow for these changes.

In addition, quick tips and help text will be added to the PAA business process in Workday to better assist PAA Specialists with completing PAAs. The Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAA) job aid (login required) will link to other Administrative Resource Center (ARC) job aids to help you through the process including Get Ready to Submit a PAA and Initiate and Submit a PAA as well as job aids to assist with approvals and additional information for PAAs involving Grants.

A new Payroll Accounting Adjustment (PAA): Tips and Tricks page has been created to assist in the PAA process along with a new BuckeyeLearn module, Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAAs) for Retro Earnings. This 12-minute course is an introduction to using Payroll Accounting Adjustments, or PAAs, for Retro Earnings. Note that you should complete the Payroll Accounting Adjustments in Workday course before completing this course. In this module, we will cover how to enter a PAA when the employee has a retroactive payroll entry associated with their earnings for a given pay period.