Payroll account preferences or settings - Accrued Vacation accounts

Hello,

So I have run into a problem and I have tried a couple of things to see if it fixes the issue. So I have entered our business PTO policy on the payroll side. I also went ahead and changed the account preferences to set up the PTO expense side of it. Now my problem is that when I go to the chart of accounts and try to run the PTO report and the PTO liability report nothing is coming up. I just recently run payroll and I checked that the hours accrued for each employee were showing in their pay stub. I am not sure what else to do because it is not linking to the accounts I have created. Now one thing I noticed under the Payroll settings>Accounting-Edit button all the way to the bottom there is another section labeled " Want to update existing transactions". So when I click on the edit icon I get a start date option. I am hesitant to enter a date because I don't know if that will solve my issue or make other unwanted changes. Please help, thank you in advance.