Evaluating the payroll results prior to releasing the payroll enables you to check for inconsistencies that can arise from errors. You can correct these errors and re-run the payroll for that period, before releasing the payroll.

Ensure that the payroll for the payroll area and period has been run before you can evaluate the payroll results.

When the payroll has been run for a particular payroll area and period, you can evaluate the payroll results as follows:

1. Generate the payroll results check data to prepare the data for the payroll results check tool. You can use a batch job to generate results for more than one payroll area or period.
2. Run the payroll results check tool. The system displays a number of reports that you can use to analyze the payroll results for that period.

From the reports of the payroll results check tool, you can compare the payroll results for different periods and check for inconsistencies. If you find an inconsistency, you can run a check to see if it is an accounting error.

When you are sure that there are no inconsistencies, you can release the payroll results.