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Last Updated: 2025-12-12
Steps: Create Forward Accruals for Fringe Benefit Expense (CAN, USA)

Steps: Create Forward Accruals for Fringe Benefit Expense (CAN, USA)

  • Configure commitment accounting to control positions.
  • Create fringe benefit commitment rules.
  • Create payroll commitment rules.
You can create forward accruals and reversals for fringe benefit expense to eliminate the need for manual fringe benefit forward accrual calculations and to ensure accurate fiscal reporting. When a payroll period spans multiple financial reporting periods, Workday estimates fringe benefit expense through the end of a financial reporting period.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Payroll Accounting Options
     task.
    Select the
    Enable Forward Accruals for Payroll Fringe Benefit Expense
     check box in the
    Forward Accrual
     section.
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - Payroll
     domain in the System functional area.
  2. Access the
    Create Period Schedule
     or
    Edit Period Schedule
     task to set up forward accruals for individual pay periods.
  3. Run Pay Calculation.
    When you enable fringe forward accruals after running initial pay calculation for a pay period, you must recalculate payroll for all the workers in that pay period. Workday doesn't apply fringe forward accruals to in-progress or completed payroll periods.
From the
Payroll Results
 of a worker, navigate to the
Other Accounting
 tab to view the
Fringe Benefit Forward Accrual
Type
 of journal. You can further click
View Journal
 to view all the fringe benefit expense and recovery transactions along with reversal journals.