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_*If we make entry in table v_T51A1 (company code & period entry is there), in frontend where it is affected.

We want to make Unit test plan for end user.
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_*This is related to Accruals posting date......It will refers to in which month which date accruals has to post to FI.

Payroll Accounting is usually carried out in a fixed cycle. This cycle is determined by the length of the periods for which the payroll is run, such as a month or a week.
Once the payroll run is complete, the results are transferred to accounting (Financial Accounting and Cost Accounting) where they are posted using a fixed posting date, such as the check date. Financial Accounting also assigns its accounting transactions to fixed periods, such as months or 4 weeks.

If the periods used within Human Resources (HR) and Financial Accounting are the same, the posting date enables you to assign the posting of payroll results correctly.
If the payroll periods are not the same as the posting periods used within Financial Accounting, the FROM and TO dates of the payroll period might belong to different posting periods within Financial Accounting. The payroll results are then posted using a fixed posting date, such as the check date. As a result, all of the personnel expenses are assigned to a single posting period within Financial Accounting, even though the expenses were actually incurred in two different posting periods.

As a result, making a meaningful comparison of expenses incurred in different posting periods becomes difficult.

You then need to be able to split personnel expenses so that for exact periods within Financial Accounting they can be assigned to different posting periods.
To solve this problem, the month end accruals function has been developed.

*Two Ways of Splitting Personnel Expenses for Exact Periods*

* *Approach Using Estimates*

<dir>The personnel expenses expected for a posting period are estimated on the basis of the results from past payroll periods and the appropriate accruals are created. These accruals are then reversed in the posting period to which the corresponding payroll results are posted.
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