Following the UCPath conversion, some salary and benefits were charged to a department default chartstring containing a Dept ID that was not at a posting level. Planning is underway to ensure that all default chartstrings contain posting-level Dept IDs. In the meantime, departments will continue to see payroll go to suspense when a non-posting level chartstring is used as a default. To keep the General Ledger and Distribution of Payroll Expense (DPE) in sync, departments must move salary and benefits in suspense using a salary cost transfer. Outlined below are the steps to move payroll that posts to the suspense account.
Step 1: Provide the Payroll Office with a posting level Dept ID.
- Following the posting of suspended payroll to the suspense account, the Payroll Office will reach out to identify a posting level Dept ID to use to move payroll suspended on Project “2222222” and a non-posting Dept ID.
- The expense will be moved by the Payroll Office via financial journal. As a reminder, these journal lines do not contain an employee name or employee ID and are grouped by Account on the Transaction Detail Report.
Step 2: Run the Distribution of Payroll Expense (DPE) by Account in MyReports to identify payroll on Project “2222222” that was recorded to a non-posting level Dept ID.
Step 3: Perform a salary cost transfer (direct retro) in UCPath to move the expense to a new valid chartstring.
- The “transfer from” credit using the non-posting Dept ID will suspend.
- The “transfer to debit” will post to the new chartstring.
Step 4: The Payroll Office will clear the credit to the same chartstring where the original suspended expense was posted.
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