Adjusting Past Employees Vacation Pay Balances from previous years

Hi Fedler,

Thanks for reaching out to us here.  I can understand your concerns with incorrect amounts remaining in your QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.  You are correct in your thinking, as making changes can have a negative impact on other areas of your books, such as source deductions, reconciliations and others.  For this reason, speaking with an accounting professional for their expertise is the best course of action, to ensure a positive outcome on your books. If you don't have an accountant, you can search for a ProAdvisor in your local area by following this link.

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I think you are asking if you zero out the amount in the employees profile? 

That does not affect anything else within the  program.  If you wanted to balance your Vacation GL, you would need to do a Journal Entry. All the employee's profile Vacation pay box does is make what prints on pay statements show 0.