Retroactive Accounting Limit for a Payroll Area

You specify this retroactive accounting limit in the application Payroll Control Record (transaction PA03). You lock payroll for a payroll area for the period in which master data changes that are relevant for payroll are made for personnel numbers in this payroll area. You also block the personnel numbers for which payroll is to be run from master data changes that affect the payroll past.

Retroactive Accounting Limit for an Employee

The system generally updates this retroactive accounting limit automatically in the infotype Payroll Status (0003) for payroll, time evaluation, and for changes in the payroll past. In exceptional circumstances, you can change this retroactive accounting limit for an individual employee. For example, this can be necessary if errors that needed to be clarified with the employee occurred during a payroll run. In such a case, the master data for this employee is locked for changes up to the retroactive accounting limit.

When archiving or destroying data using the archiving objects HR: Time Evaluation Results (PA_TIME) and HR: Payroll Results (PA_CALC), the system writes a retroactive accounting limit to infotype 0003. This prevents the system from performing retroactive accounting in the archiving or data destruction period. In this case, the entry in infotype 0003 is checked against the entries in the infotype Archiving/Data Destruction (0283).

Retroactive Accounting Limit for a Country Grouping

This retroactive accounting limit is used exclusively for the destruction of data and archiving and is the earliest retroactive accounting date that you can specify at the level of a country grouping. You can use this retroactive accounting limit to ensure that no data relevant for payroll that may still be required for retroactive accounting for the personnel numbers of a country grouping is destroyed.