Payroll Accounting

This module connects the payroll app with accounting so that payroll results are recorded in the books without manual journal entries.

• On employee contracts you can set a Salary Journal and, if analytic accounting is enabled, an Analytic Account.
• On salary rules a new Accounting tab lets you define a Debit Account, a Credit Account, an optional Analytic Account, a Tax, and a Base salary rule for tax lines.
• On a payslip you see the Date Account, the Salary Journal (taken from the contract) and, once confirmed, the linked Accounting Entry.
• Payslip batches (payslip runs) require a Salary Journal, which is also shown in the list and search views.

When you confirm a payslip, Odoo builds a journal entry from the payslip lines: each line posts to the debit and credit accounts of its salary rule, with analytic distribution taken from the contract or the rule. If debits and credits do not balance, an adjustment line is added using the journal's default account; if that account is missing, an error is raised. The entry is posted automatically and stored on the payslip. Cancelling a payslip cancels and deletes its entry, or reverses it when the journal is protected against deletion.

Partners are set on entry lines for receivable, current liability and payable accounts, using the employee or the register partner.