Retroactive accounting

If you change HR master data in a period for which the

payroll has already been run, the payroll must be run once

again for this period using the current values, so the

results will be updated based on new source data. This

action is known as retroactive accounting.

If you do any changes in an infotype that is relevant to

retroactive accounting, the Earliest MD Change field in the

Payroll Status infotype (IT0003) is set to the start date

of the changed infotype, this way retroactive accounting is

automatically triggered up to this retroactive accounting

date when the next payroll run is performer. For example,

after a salary change in Basic Pay infotype (IT000.