Absence numbers finance can sign
Balances disagree between screens, liability is only right at the moment payroll last ran, and nobody can say who was on leave last March. This module rebuilds absence on a daily balance snapshot you own.
◆ The pagesone model, eight pages, arithmetic checked.
| Page | What it answers |
|---|---|
| The absence star | The model: a daily balance fact, an event fact, and the rate dimension that makes liability honest. |
| Time off liability | The auditable number: hours times rate, both as of the date, movement explained, crossfooted. |
| Balances as of any date | The balance history the tenant does not keep, and why screens disagree today. |
| Workers on leave | Who is out, since when, expected back, and the overdue list, as of any date. |
| Intermittent leave | Protected leave taken in pieces against a rolling entitlement, with exhaustion flagged, the compliance case delivered tracking handles worst. |
| Balance roll-forward | Opening plus accrued minus taken equals closing, to the hour, tying the liability report to its movement. |
| Carryover expiry | The 2,400 hours above the cap, worth 126,715.00, priced in July instead of apologized for in December. |
| Absence rate | Unplanned days over scheduled worker-days, with vacation kept out of the rate on purpose. |
◆ The one mechanismbalances are computed, not kept.
Workday computes a balance when asked: accruals to date, minus usage, plus adjustments, under the plan's rules. Practitioners meet the consequences constantly: front-loaded grants with no delivered proration when someone leaves mid-year, termination-month accruals that surprise both sides, and balances imported from prior systems that never quite agree with the plan math.
The owned model stores the computed balance once per worker per plan per day. History stops being a recomputation, liability gets a dated basis, and every disagreement between screens becomes a diff between two stored days. The same snapshot discipline as headcount, applied to hours.
◆ Where the numbers tiethe arithmetic the battery checks.
| Check | Where |
|---|---|
| Liability rows multiply exactly: hours times rate equals dollars, rows sum to totals | Time off liability, crossfooted by the battery. |
| Departments are the payroll module's: Sales, Technology Delivery, Support | The same three the labor cost report prices, same population of 351. |
| On-leave counts reconcile to the headcount snapshot's active flags | Workers on leave against headcount history. |
Sample values are illustrative, never client data.
- battery
- The automated set of checks, including the crossfoot arithmetic, run on every build of this catalog.
- balance
- Hours a worker holds in one plan on one date. Computed by the tenant, stored by the model.
- accrual
- Hours granted by plan rules over time.
- front-loaded grant
- A full year of hours granted on day one. Proration on exit is the trap.
- liability
- The money the balances represent: hours times pay rate, both as of a date.
- repricing
- A raise changing the value of every accrued hour at once.
- plan
- The ruleset a balance lives under: accrual rate, caps, carryover.
- snapshot
- A dated copy of a state, kept so the past stays queryable.