---
title: 'Employee reports'
summary: 'A manual balance adjustment: an HR-initiated transaction that adds or removes hours or days from an employee balance. For cases the automatic system cannot cover.'
section: features
tags:
  - crud
  - tempus
  - reporting
  - hr
updated: '2026-08-17'
---

> An **employee report** in Tempus is a **manual balance adjustment**: an HR-initiated transaction that adds or removes hours or days from an employee's balances, for cases the automatic system (time-points, declarations, decisions) cannot cover.

## Overview

Use an employee report when a balance needs a direct, human-curated change, such as crediting compensatory time-off for a missed holiday or deducting a day after a leave reclassification. The page lets you create adjustments, edit them, and browse history.

## What it does

**TR type** sets the direction (Credit adds, Debit subtracts) and **Type** picks the balance category (Compensatory, Vacation, Home-office, Cashpot) whose unit the **Amount** is interpreted in. The optional **Half days** toggle switches the amount to half-day increments, and **Sub-type** adds finer granularity for report breakdowns.

The adjustment is immediate with no approval flow: the active contract's balance changes as soon as you save, and the HR user is the approver of record.

## Deleting a row

Each row carries a **Delete** action. It asks for a reason (required, at least 5 characters) and only removes the row once you confirm: the row disappears from the report but stays in the database, together with the reason and the audit-trail entry naming who removed it and when.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Deleting a row does not recalculate the running balance of the rows booked after it. Either correct a wrong adjustment with a counter-adjustment of the same amount in the opposite direction, or delete it and rebuild the ledger with **Recalculate balances** on the employee. Adjustments also bypass the validation that blocks illegal balances (for example negative compensatory time-off), so the system trusts HR.

## See also

- [Employees](tempus_employees.md) - the subjects.
- [Contracts](tempus_contracts.md) - the balances modified.
- [Tempus absences](tempus_absences.md) - the request-workflow path for absence-style entries.
- [Time point overviews](tempus_time_point_overviews.md) - the report surface that reflects adjustments.