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title: "Leave Accounts"
description: "Plan vacation entitlement and retain a traceable history of every adjustment."
search:
  tags: ["leave accounts", "vacation"]
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Open **Your Company → Employees → [Employee] → Vacation** to manage an employee's leave account. Define annual entitlement and plan changes for specific periods. Leadtime automatically calculates prorated days for joining, leaving, contract changes, or part-time arrangements and records every change.

See [Leave Management](/company/leave-management).

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## Initial entitlement

<img src="/images/help-center/company/leave-accounts-01.png" alt="Leave Accounts – Initial entitlement" style={{ width: '55%' }} />

Enter the vacation entitlement in the employee's master data when creating the profile. This becomes the basis for later calculations and adjustments.

### Plan leave-account agreements

<img src="/images/help-center/company/leave-accounts-02.png" alt="Leave Accounts – Plan agreements" style={{ width: '80%' }} />

Select **+ Plan** to add an agreement:

- **From:** Start date of the new period.
- **Vacation days:** Annual entitlement.

Use separate agreements for changes caused by longer service or new contract terms.

### Changes during the year

If entitlement changes during the year, Leadtime calculates the remaining days proportionally and records the date and validity of the change.

### Carryovers

Unused days can be carried into the next year or compensated with or without a payout. These transactions appear under **Vacation compensation**.