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Employee's cost code affects Payroll Control Journal salary totals

Follow these steps to resolve any issues with an employee's cost codes causing issues with the Payroll Control Journal.

Cristiana Ghinea avatar
Written by Cristiana Ghinea
Updated over 3 months ago

Cost codes on Access Education People are not added per employee, instead they can only be assigned to posts.

Cost code on the employee's post

In first instance, make sure that the cost codes on the employee's post have been set up correctly by following the steps in our article on amending cost codes.


Resolve the error in the Finance software

Once you've ensure that the correct cost codes are added on the post, the issue will need to be resolved in the Access Education Finance software.

  1. Go to Transactions.

  2. Select Journals.

  3. Select Journal or Internal Transfer.

  4. Click the Blue Plus to add the journal.

  5. In the first journal line, credit the incorrect Cost Centre and Ledger Code combination.

  6. In the second journal line, debit the correct Cost Centre and Ledger Code combination.

  7. Click Submit.

πŸ“Œ Note: The Cost Centre and Ledger Code combinations in question should be for the Staffing Expense, there is no need to post to the Payroll Control account.

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