This tab is available if the Provide Main Vacation option is selected on the Main tab.
If on the Main tab, you have selected Vacation Calculation as the transaction type, the tab provides information on the accrued main vacation time (in days) and the start and end dates of actual vacation to be taken by the employee.
The "Vacation (create)" form. The Main Vacation tab
The Vacation Type field is populated with the vacation type which was selected for the employee as the main vacation. If needed, you can select other type of paid vacation granted to the employee in the Employment Contract or its changes.
The Accrual Type and Main Vacation Accrued Earnings Type fields are populated from the master record of the vacation type that was selected in the Vacation Type field.
You can specify the vacation start date in the Vacation From field and the end date in the To field.
The Total Days field shows the number of requested vacation days.
The Days Available field shows the number of main vacation days available for the employee on the planned start day of vacation.
Click the Calculate button to initiate calculation of the resulting vacation pay for the specified vacation period.
Generally, the vacation days accrued for each month are calculated by the Month-End Closing process if the Calculate Vacation Days option is selected on the corresponding form (Accounting > Service Tools > Month-End Closing). At each month end, the accrued vacation days are increased by the value that is equal to the number of vacation days per year divided by 12.
Note. If the employee has unpaid unauthorized absences registered with the Other Absences document, the number of such absences will be deducted from the employee's length of service used for vacation calculation.
The amount in the Average Daily Earnings field is calculated based on the settings of the vacation type in the currency specified in the Main tab of this document.
The Expense GL Account shows the default account to be used for recording labor costs related to vacations.
In the Expense Item field, specify the expense item to mark the costs related to this employee vacations.
The Business Activity field shows the default business activity in which this employee generally participates.
The Leave Allowance field shows the amount of vacation pay for the selected vacation period in the document currency.