Processing Annual Leave and Personal Leave
Overview
This article explains how to process annual leave and personal (sick) leave for employees in Myaccountant during a pay run. It also covers how leave balances are automatically calculated and reflected in payslips.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Track Employee Work Hours Accurately
To ensure leave accruals calculate correctly, you must:
- Use the correct pay items (e.g. Ordinary Hours) when recording hours worked.
- Use the correct leave pay items when recording time off.
Myaccountant automatically tracks leave accruals based on hours worked and leave taken.
- Open the Employee’s Pay Run
- Go to Payroll > Pay Runs and open the relevant pay run.
- Click on the employee’s name to open their pay record.
- Add Leave Pay Items
- Click Add Pay Item.
- In the Pay Item list, scroll to the Leave category.
- Select:
- Paid Leave ( for annual leave), and/or
- Sick Leave (for personal leave).
- Click Add to insert the selected leave items into the pay run.