For most companies the Time & Attendance module is configured so that End of Period Operations cannot be performed until after the last day of the current pay period. If you need to close a pay period and run payroll before the scheduled end of the pay period due to a holiday, office closure, or other special event, contact an ADP Time & Attendance Representative. An ADP Time & Attendance Representative can temporarily enable you to perform end of period operations before the end of period.

If your company's payroll schedule makes it necessary for you to run payroll before the end of every pay period, use the Projected Payroll feature. For more information, see Projecting Payroll.

If you leave End of Period Operations and return later, you must work through all of the steps from the beginning, so that the Time & Attendance module can check for any new errors or exceptions. Even if you locked the pay cycle when you began your End of Period Operations, users with special pay cycle access may have entered new data since that time. This new data could cause new exceptions. By requiring you to work through all of the steps each time you use the End of Period Operations interface, the Time & Attendance module reduces the likelihood that pay period data errors will cause your pay period move to fail.

Although you can return to a previously completed step, you cannot jump forward through the steps, even if you have previously completed them. You can only move forward through the steps by clicking the Next Step or Run Automatically button. These buttons are only available if all of the conditions for the current step have been met.

You can generate a Manager Approval Status Report, which displays the following information:

• All managers and the employees they are responsible for approving.

• The approval status for each employee. An employee’s time is only considered Approved when all time pairs have been approved by the manager for the selected time frame. If one or more time pairs are not approved, the employee’s time is shown as Unapproved.

To access the Supervisor Approval Status Report:

1. Click the Reports button in the upper right corner of any Time & Attendance module page.

2. Under Report Categories, click the Administrator Reports link. The Administrator Reports page opens.

3. Next to the Supervisor Approval Status Report, click the button. The report immediately opens using the default Time & Attendance module settings. If you want to customize the report settings before the report is generated, click the button.