Payroll combines employee data, compensation formulas, effective dates, statutory rules, adjustments, and financial impact. Approval provides a controlled point where those inputs and outputs can be reviewed before the run is locked.
Validate before approval
Pre-compute and pre-lock checks should identify missing employee data, invalid compensation context, unresolved adjustments, and other conditions that would make the run unreliable.
Route the review
Payroll review can require more than one authority, such as operational or managerial review plus finance oversight, depending on the configured process.
Key takeaway: The useful test is whether the process preserves business meaning, ownership, evidence, and the ability to verify what happened. A faster handoff is not enough if those controls disappear.
Lock the approved run
Once the required approvals are complete, the payroll run can become locked so the calculation result is not casually rewritten after approval.
Connect downstream evidence
Payslips and finance journal entries should be generated from the approved run while preserving the calculation, approval, and effective-period context that produced the outcome.
Practical checklist
- Input validation
- Calculation review
- Adjustment review
- Approver routing
- Decision evidence
- Lock state
- Payslips
- Finance posting
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