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title: "Adjust Leave Manually"
slug: "adjust-leave-manually-1"
description: "Learn how to manually adjust the employee accrued leave (allowance) for the current or prior year, as well as doing subsequent manual adjustment."
tags: ["HR"]
updated: 2023-04-11T12:50:18Z
published: 2023-04-11T12:50:18Z
canonical: "help.lanteria.com/adjust-leave-manually-1"
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# Adjust Leave Manually

Sometimes you may need to adjust the accrued leave of employees.

*Note**The leave types mentioned in this topic are examples and may be different in your case.*

## Adjust Accrued Leave for Current Year

To make a manual adjustment of accrued leave of an employee for the current reporting year, follow these steps:

1. Open the employee card of an employee, whose accrued leave amount you want to adjust, and then, on the **General** tab, click **Absences**.
2. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, in the **Type** field, select the leave type you wish to adjust, and then click **View**.
3. Click on the![EditAnnouncementIcon](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/EditAnnouncementIcon.png) icon next to **Total Paid Leave**.![img172](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img172.png)
4. In the **Adjust Allowance** window, select **Add** if you want to add leave allowance or **Deduct** to deduct an amount from the Accrued amount, and then enter the amount of the adjustment you wish to apply.*Important**If there is already an existing manual adjustment, your new adjustment will overwrite the existing manual adjustment. See* [**Making* Subsequent Adjustments*](/v1/docs/adjust-leave-manually-1#making-subsequent-adjustments) *for more details.**![img174](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img174.png)*
5. Ensure that the **Adjusted Allowance** field reflects the correct value you wish to adjust the accrued amount to, and then click **Save**.

### Example: Alexandra has been approved to purchase (or bring in) additional 5 days of Annual Leave today

To adjust Alexandra's allowance:

1. Open Alexandra's employee card, and then, on the **General** tab, click **Absences**.
2. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, in the **Type** field, select **Vacations**, and then click **View**. Observe that Alexandra has accrued 16.5 days this year.![img176](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img176.png)
3. Click on the ![EditAnnouncementIcon](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/EditAnnouncementIcon.png)icon next to **Total Paid Leave**.
4. Select **Add**, and then in the field below, enter **5**.![img178](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img178.png)
5. Observe that the **Adjusted Allowance** field is now set to **21.50** days (16.50 + 5), and then click **Save**.

## Adjust Accrued Leave for Prior Year

You may need to adjust accrued leave allowance that an employee accrued during a reporting year that has already passed (e.g. last year, 2 years ago, 5 year ago, etc.).

To make a manual adjustment of accrued leave of an employee for the previous reporting year, follow these steps:

1. Open the employee card of an employee, whose accrued leave amount for a prior year you want to adjust, and then, on the **General** tab, click **Absences**.
2. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, in the **Report Date** field, enter the rollover date you want to adjust.
3. In the **Type** field, select the leave type you want to adjust, and then click **View**.
4. Click on the ![EditAnnouncementIcon](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/EditAnnouncementIcon.png) icon next to **Total Paid Leave**.
5. In the **Adjust Allowance** window, select **Add** if you want to add leave allowance or **Deduct** to deduct an amount from the Accrued amount, and then enter the amount of the adjustment you wish to apply.*Important**If there is already an existing manual adjustment, your new adjustment will overwrite the existing manual adjustment. See* [**Making* Subsequent Adjustments*](/v1/docs/adjust-leave-manually-1#making-subsequent-adjustments) *for more details.*
6. Ensure that the **Adjusted Allowance** field reflects the correct value you wish to adjust the accrued amount to, and then click **Save**.
7. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, note the new leave balance on the rollover date after the manual adjustment. You need to use this as the new carried over balance for the next year.
8. Change the **Report Date** field value to the rollover date one year after your adjustment year and note that the carried over balance now needs to be updated.
9. Click  **Time and Attendance** > **Absence Lists** > **Vacation** **Carried Over**.
10. Locate the carried over record with the corresponding employee, leave type, start date and expiration date, select it, and then click **Edit Item**.
11. Update the carried over amount to match the noted leave balance for the previous year, and then click **Save**.
12. Return to the **Employee Absence Summary** window, and record the new leave balance.
13. Repeat steps 8 through 12 for every year after your adjustment year up to the current year.

### Example

Lynda cashed out 4 days of annual leave for the year 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2020 but it was not recorded and processed before the end of the year on 31/12/2020. We now need to deduct 4 days from the annual leave accrual for the year 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2020.

1. Open Lynda's employee card, and then, on the **General** tab, click **Absences**.
2. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, in the **Report Date** field, enter the rollover date of **31/12/2020** and observe that Lynda has accrued 18 days for the year ending 31/12/2020.![img180](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img180.png)
3. Click on the ![EditAnnouncementIcon](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/EditAnnouncementIcon.png) icon next to **Total Paid Leave**.
4. Select **Deduct**, and then in the field below, enter **4**.![img182](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img182.png)
5. Observe that the **Adjusted Allowance** field is now set to **14** days (18 - 4), and then click **Save**.
6. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, note that the new leave balance on the 31/12/2020 is now 10 days after the manual adjustment. We will use this as the new carried over Balance for the next year.![img184](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img184.png)
7. Change the **Report Date** field value to **31/12/2021** (one year after the adjustment year), and then click **View**.![img186](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img186.png)
8. We note that the carried over value is **14** days. We want to update this to equal the leave balance on the **31/12/2020** of **10** days (updated **Accrued** 14 – **Taken** 4 days  = 10).
9. Click **Time and Attendance** > **Absence Lists** > **Vacation** **Carried Over**.
10. Locate the carried over record with the corresponding employee: **Lynda Ball**, Leave Type: **Vacation**, Start Date: **1/1/2021**.  
![img188](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img188.png)
11. Select the carried over record, and then click **Edit Item**. Then we update the carried over amount to **10** to match the closing balance on 31/12/2020.![img190](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img190.png)
12. Click **Save**. Lynda's carried over for the year 2021 will be updated to **10**.![img192](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img192.png)
13. Note that if the current year is the year ending 31/12/2022, we will need to update the carried over value again in the same manner. This needs to be done for every year up to the current year.

## Making Subsequent Adjustments

For each employee’s leave calculation, there is only 1 manual adjustment slot for each leave type per reporting year. A manual adjustment is always either an addition or a deduction. In the case of an addition or deduction of 0, this is the equivalent of no adjustment.

When you wish to make a manual adjustment and there is already an existing manual adjustment in the adjustment field, you can make the subsequent adjustment as follows:

1. Open the employee card of an employee, who already has a manual accrual leave adjustment, and you want to make another subsequent adjustment, and then, on the **General** tab, click **Absences**.
2. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, in the **Type** field, select the leave type you want to adjust, and then click **View**.
3. Click on the ![EditAnnouncementIcon](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/EditAnnouncementIcon.png) icon next to **Total Paid Leave**.
4. Note the existing manual adjustment amount: as a positive figure if it is an addition or as a negative figure if it is a deduction.
5. Add/deduct the adjustment you wish to make to the existing manual adjustment amount, and then the total.
6. In the **Adjust Allowance** window, select **Add** if the total is positive, or **Deduct** if the total is negative.
7. In the adjustment field below, enter the total amount.  
*Note**This overwrites the existing manual adjustment.*
8. Click **Save**.

### Example

Tanya has been approved to cash out 5 days of annual leave today.

1. Open Tanya's employee card, and then, on the **General** tab, click **Absences**.
2. In the **Employee Absence Summary** window, in the **Type** field, we’ve selected **Annual Leave** and observe that Tanya has accrued 20 days this year.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img016(6).png)
3. Click on the ![EditAnnouncementIcon](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/EditAnnouncementIcon.png) icon next to **Total Paid Leave**, and, in the **Adjust Allowance** window, observe that the **Add** option is selected and there is an existing manual adjustment amount of 2 days. We will note it as +2.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img017(8).png)
4. We wish to make a manual adjustment of -5 days, so we will deduct this from +2 yielding a total of -3. As our total is negative, we will now select **Deduct**, and in the adjustment field below, we enter our total of 3.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img018(7).png)
5. Observe that our new adjusted allowance is 15 (which is 20-5).
6. Click **Save**.

## Related

- [Absence Plans](/creating-absence-plan.md)
- [Manage Leave for a Prior Year (Retrospective Leave)](/adjust-leave-manually.md)
- [Manage Leave for a Future Year](/manage-leave-for-a-future-year.md)