Payroll control record

[Former Member]

I understand the regular movement of changing the control record, ie corrections, exit, etc. My question is with regard to year end. Once we have closed the year should we be changing the earliest retro acctg period on this record so that SAP does not run back into prior years. What exactly does this 'earliest retro date' on this record do?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Rowena,

As per the above screen shot, Earliest Reto accounting says 01 2013. This means that any changes made to Master data or time data prior to this date will not be considered when retroactive accounting is processed during a payroll run.

Once you have done the year end adjustments, you can go ahead and change the earliest retro accounting date, so that master data and time data changes prior to the earliest retro date is not allowed.

Also,there is a lot of information available on this in the thread below :

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3836461

Hope you find this helpful.