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Vacation not calculating correctly for some employees

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Summary

This article helps solve the issue of vacation calculating but incorrectly in Sage 50 Canadian Edition.

Cause

  • A deduction isn’t selected to deduct after the vacation or vice versa.
  • The income field adds an additional amount to the gross for vacation to calculate on.
  • The recurring transaction vacation field was edited before saving so it doesn't recalculate.

Resolution

Section 1: Deduction setting.
  1. Go to Setup, SettingsPayrollDeductions, then select or deselect the Deduct After Vacation column as desired by your payroll expert, accountant or the CRA.
  2. Select OK.
  3. Verify the vacation is calculated accurately.

Section 2: Vacation is calculated on Vacation Paid.

  1. Go into the Employee record.
  2. Select the Income tab.
  3. Uncheck Calculate Vacation on Vacation Paid.
  4. Select Save and Close.
  5. Follow steps 1 to 5 for each employee.
  6. Verify that Vacation is now calculated correctly.

Section 3: The income field adds an additional amount to the gross and is set to calculate vacation.

  1. Create a Paycheque for an Employee.
  2. Verify if any additional Income fields are added to gross.
  3. If so, close the Paycheque window.
  4. Under Payroll settings, verify that the Income field is set correctly.
  5. Go into the Employee record.
  6. Select the Income tab
  7. Make desired changes and select Save and Close
  8. Follow steps 5 to 8 for each employee record having the problem
  9. Verify that Vacation is now calculated correctly.

Section 4: The Recurring Transaction Vacation field was edited before storing the transaction.

  1. Delete and re-key the recurring transaction without editing the vacation fields.
  2. Click Enter Taxes Manually button.
  3. Click Automatically calculate taxes.
  4. Verify the vacation is calculated correctly.


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