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Leave Reporting and Liability

Understanding which reports to use and how leave liabilities are calculated.

Updated over 3 months ago

SmoothPay provides several reporting options to help you review leave balances, audit leave transactions and understand your financial liability. These reports appear across different areas of the software depending on the type of information you need.


Reports Screen

Leave-related reports in this area are found under the Staff category in the Reports screen.
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Three core reports are available across all jurisdictions.

Leave entitlements

Provides a summary of each employee's leave types, settings and totals.

Useful when you need to review entitlements without displaying dollar values.

This report includes details such as:

  • Anniversary date

  • Accrual rate and unit

  • Start date

  • Maximum accrual (cap)

  • Whether the leave type uses Percentage per pay

  • Whether the leave type counts toward RDO or Flexi-time

  • Current balance (anniversary or to-date depending on liability rules)


Leave valuation

Shows the anniversary balance, to-date balance and the current dollar-value liability for each leave type.

This report is essential for financial and compliance purposes.
The values shown mirror the right-click β†’ Leave balances window but are presented in a report format.

Fields include:

  • Anniversary date

  • Anniversary balance

  • To-date balance (may show as Estimate depending on jurisdiction)

  • Valuation

  • Total liability for each employee


Leave taken analysis

Generates a detailed summary of leave used within a selected date range.

This report allows you to analyse leave usage across the organisation and can be filtered by:

  • Date range

  • Leave type

  • Department

  • Grouping by department

The report includes details such as:

  • Employee name

  • Department

  • Leave type

  • Leave units

  • Units entered

  • Dollar value

  • Badge number

  • Start date

  • Years of service

  • Accrual rate and method

  • Whether the leave type accrues annually, per pay or not at all

  • Internal codes for employee, paycode and department


Pay Reports Menu

The Pay reports button in the Payrun screen contains several audit reports, including the Leave taken report for the current pay process.

The Leave taken report displays:

  • Units entered

  • Rate of pay

  • Leave amount consumed

  • Gross value

  • Totals for each leave type

This allows for quick verification of leave taken in the current pay before finalising the pay process.


Files Screen

Leave-related reports are automatically generated when a pay is completed. These can be downloaded from the Files screen.

Two leave reports may appear here:

Leave liability report

Generated with every completed pay process.
Similar to the Leave valuation report but:

  • Separates each leave type onto its own page

  • Includes totals for the pay process it relates to

Useful when auditing historical liabilities.

Filename format: LeaveLiability_<batch#>_yyyy-mm-dd.pdf


Leave accruals report

Generated when an accrual occurs during a pay process.
This includes:

  • Anniversary accruals

  • Percentage per pay accruals

Does not include pro-rated portions from the to-date method.

Fields include:

  • Employee name

  • Leave code

  • Batch number

  • Date

  • Units accrued

  • Unit of measure

  • Period end date

Filename format: LeaveAccruals_<batch#>_yyyy-mm-dd.xlsx


Print Button Leave Reports (Staff Screen)

These options produce reports for a single employee, and are ideal for auditing or providing employee-specific summaries.

Leave history

Shows all leave transactions for the selected leave type with a running balance.

To generate the Leave history report:

  1. Go to the Staff screen

  2. Select the employee

  3. Select the Leave tab

  4. Select the History tab

  5. Select the leave type you want to review

  6. Click the Print button at the bottom of the history column


Entitlements summary (employee specific)

Same layout as the Entitlements summary in the Reports screen, but for the selected employee only.

To generate this report:

  1. Go to the Staff screen

  2. Select the employee

  3. Select the Leave tab

  4. Select the Entitlement tab

  5. Click the Print button at the bottom of the code list

  6. Select Entitlements summary


Leave valuation (employee specific)

Shows the anniversary balance, to-date balance and liability for the selected employee.

To generate this report:

  1. Go to the Staff screen

  2. Select the employee

  3. Select the Leave tab

  4. Select the Entitlement tab

  5. Click the Print button at the bottom of the code list

  6. Select Leave valuation


Print Button Leave Reports (Codes Screen)

These reports show information for all employees for the selected leave type.

To generate any of the leave code reports:

  1. Go to the Codes screen

  2. Select the Leave codes category

  3. Select the leave type you want to review

  4. Click the Print button at the bottom of the code list

  5. Choose one of the following:

    • Code history (batch)

    • Code history (date range)

    • Entitlements

    • Valuation

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