To reflect department costing information for employees after Calculate Payroll without rolling back and rerunning, which step should you perform?

• A. You roll back only the costing process and rerun it.
• B. You cannot rectify the costing results after they are created.
• C. You make the adjustments in General Ledger because costing results cannot be changed.
• D. You run the Calculate Retroactive Costing process to recalibrate costs for retroactive changes to costing setups.

Answer: (D)

When you need department-level costing to reflect changes after payroll has been calculated, use retroactive costing. This process recalculates the costing results for the affected employees and periods based on updated costing setups or retroactive changes (such as department changes) without requiring you to roll back and rerun the entire payroll. It keeps the original payroll results intact while updating the costing distribution to match the latest configurations, which is exactly what you need to reflect accurate department costs post-calculation.

The other options don’t provide the same outcome. Rolling back and rerunning is more disruptive and unnecessary when retroactive costing can adjust the costing without reprocessing payroll. Making adjustments in General Ledger isn’t about recalculating costing within Payroll for previously processed periods, so it won’t correct the department costing at the source.