Difference between for and in period

[Former Member]

Hi all experts,

learning sap payroll need some information regarding the difference of for and in period

what is the significance of both for-period and in-period.

[JesusL · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Here an example for clarification.

You run the payroll of January => you will create the payroll result 0001 (seqnr) FOR January IN January.

You run the payroll of February=> you will create the payroll result 0002 FOR February IN February.

Then you run the payroll of March with retro over January:

This mean that you recalculate January and February in the same execution of March.

You will create the payroll result 0003 FOR January IN March, payroll result 0004 FOR February IN March and payroll result 0005 FOR March IN March.

I hope this example clarifies your doubt.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Lopez,

Can you elobarate a little more

[Sujith_EM · Accepted solution]

In period means the period in which you run payroll

For period : in some cases because of changes happen in to master data that is related with payroll in a previous month . system need to calculate that changes also in to account , so system will run payroll for that period in the current period

you are running payroll in march of 2010 the and you made change in any of the master data related with payroll in February .system will go for a retro run from February to include the changes in to payroll

Here the IN PERIOD is March because you are running payroll in March ,

You can see two result with same in period here, it is because this month payroll is running for this month as well for the previous month on which you made a change in this period

For the run in March you can see two results

For period February In period March ( for the retro )

For Period March In period March ( the normal run)