Absence Year Utility

Use the Absence Year utility to start tracking time earned and taken for a new absence year. You can have only one active absence accrual year. You cannot have different active absence years for different employees.

When you open a new absence accrual year, Vantagepoint zeroes out all year-to-date accrual totals for all employees. This process includes year-to-date hours earned and taken. The current year's ending balance for a benefit plan becomes the starting balance for the new year. This initialization procedure affects absence accrual data only; it does not affect any other Vantagepoint data.

To determine starting balances for the new absence year, Vantagepoint checks the following Absence Accrual settings:

  • Pre-accrue hours: If you apply this option to a benefit plan, Vantagepoint accrues the full number of hours for the absence year when you open a new absence year.
  • Carry over Limit: This option allows you to enter the maximum number of hours that can be carried over into a new accrual year for a particular benefit plan. When an employee reaches this maximum, Vantagepoint no longer accrues hours for this benefit plan, for this employee.

Posting Log Review

When you open a new absence accrual year, Vantagepoint records the opening of the absence accrual year on the Posting Log Review report. The entry displays as an AL transaction type, to indicate that it is an audit log posting.

Multiple Companies

If you use multiple companies, you open a new absence year for the active company. If you have the same benefit code associated with more than one company, when you run the Absence Year utility, the pre-accrual runs for the active company only.