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AU Payroll | Include date range in exported version of Payment Summary Details report

When running the Payment Summary Details report for a previous financial year, the report does not show the dates of the financial year the data belongs to. The report is titled Payment Summary Details as at Today's Date. For example: it should show Payment Summary Details reporting period 1st July 2017 - 30th June 2018. For audit purposes, there is no way of determining the date range the reported data relates to.

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  • Freya Pieroz commented  ·   ·  Report

    As it currently stands, I do not know just by looking at it whether this report includes the payrun I ran on Monday 1st July 2024 for the payroll period ending 30 June 2024, and because Payment Summaries should only include payments made during the financial year being reported, this is quite a problem.

  • Freya Pieroz commented  ·   ·  Report

    As of today's date (4th July 2024) the Payment Summary Details report now shows that it is reporting as of the first day of the financial year after the financial year that it covers.

    Which is Wrong. It implies that it is the payment summary (for the financial year including the date given ie 2025 in the screenshots) as at the given date when it is as at the day prior (and for the financial year ending the day prior ie 2024). This report does not give a fair and accurate picture of the accounts and therefore fails at basic accounting standards.

  • Sonia Partridge commented  ·   ·  Report

    All payroll reports need to show the dates of the pay week payments belong to - eg Pay Date 31/08/23 - the period this payment is for needs to be shown (pay period 24/08/2023 to 30/08/2023)

    We employ Apprentices and do receive some Government funding for our apprentices. The government agencies require to see the pay week payments relate to. Without this, we don't receive funding. MYOB can show pay week dates along with payment dates on all their payroll reports.

  • Sandra Reed commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes. I just submitted case CX0012992654 for reporting period missing from Payroll Summary Details Report.

    Just having the "as at date" does not make sense if you are not able to also include period being reported.

    If you create this report for auditors in July or August and are not able to demonstrate that the reporting period is for 01 July 2021 to 30 June 2022 then the report fails the audit requirement.

  • Naomi Gibbins commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yep, my auditors asked me exactly this question last month - they were not impressed.

  • Naomi Gibbins commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is essential - my auditors queried this just last month. I printed out the relevant reports as per their request & then I couldn't prove that I'd done the correct date range! Xero really needs to get this on the report.

  • Kate Underhill commented  ·   ·  Report

    The Payment Summary Details Report needs to clearly show to/from dates on the report. If I run several Payment Summary Details Reports today for multiple financial years, all reports are titled exactly the same: Payment Summary Details as at Todays Date. There is no way to tell which financial year these figures belong to. I cannot send this to clients to verify because they can't tell which period they're looking at. This would not pass an audit.