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Oracle® Fusion Applications Compensation Management Implementation Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1.4)
Part Number E20376-04
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absence balance

A running total of the hours or days an employee has taken for the absence type.

absence category

A group of related absence types for reporting purposes.

absence entitlement band

A level that determines the payment that employees must receive for a specific number of days during a long leave of absence based on their length of service.

absence entitlement plan

A benefit that entitles employees to receive payment while on long leaves of absence.

absence type

A grouping of absences, such as illness or personal business, that are handled together for reporting, accrual, and compensation calculations.

abstract role

A description of a person's function in the enterprise that is unrelated to the person's job (position), such as employee, contingent worker, or line manager. A type of enterprise role.

accounting flexfield

The chart of accounts that determines the structure, such as the number and order of individual segments, as well as the corresponding values per segment.

accrual band

A range of eligibility criteria that identify how much paid time eligible employees accrue over the course of an accrual term. The criteria may be years of service, grades, hours worked, or some other factor.

accrual carryover

Amount of unused time in the previous accrual term that an employee can use in the next accrual term.

accrual ceiling

Maximum amount of time that an employee can accrue in an accrual term.

accrual period

A time interval, such as one month, in which employees accrue time within an accrual term.

accrual plan

A benefit that entitles employees to accrue time for the purpose of taking leave.

accrual term

Period of time, often one year, for which accruals are calculated.

action

Tracks changes to certain Human Capital Management (HCM) records, for example, changes to employment and assignment records. You can create your own actions and associate them with the predefined action types. You can optionally associate action reasons with actions.

action

The kind of access named in a security policy, such as view or edit.

action reason

Action reasons provide further explanation to actions, for example, an action of transfer could have reasons such as reorganization or career progression.

ADF

Acronym for Application Developer Framework. A set of programming principles and rules for developing software applications.

application identity

Predefined application level user with elevated privileges. An application identity authorizes jobs and transactions for which other users are not authorized, such as a payroll run authorized to access a taxpayer ID while the user who initiated the job is not authorized to access such personally identifiable information.

application role

A role specific to applications and stored in the policy store.

Applications Core

Abbreviation for Oracle Fusion Middleware Extensions for Applications. The technical product code is FND.

assessment period

A fixed or rolling period of time during which absences are evaluated for payment under an absence entitlement plan.

assignment

A set of information, including job, position, pay, compensation, managers, working hours, and work location, that defines a worker's or nonworker's role in a legal employer.

assignment statement

A statement used to set a value for a local variable in a fast formula.

balance

Positive or negative accumulations of values over periods of time normally generated by payroll runs. A balance can sum pay values, time periods, or numbers.

balancing segment

A chart of accounts segment used to automatically balance all journal entries for each value of this segment.

band

A specified range of values. For example, an age band defines a range of ages, such as 25 to 30, used to determine a person's eligibility.

beneficiary

A person or organization designated to receive benefits from a compensation plan on the death of the plan participant.

benefit rate

An amount or percentage that represents a participant's or employer's contribution to or distribution from a benefits offering.

benefits object hierarchy

A structure that enables benefits that share similar attributes to be defined and managed efficiently. The four object types used to structure benefits offerings are programs, plan types, plans, and options.

benefits offering

Any of an organization's non salary components of employee benefits packages, such as health, savings, life insurance, recreation, goods, or services.

benefits relationship

A mechanism for benefits professionals to group worker assignments for benefits enrollments and processing at the usage and legal entity level. Every worker has at least one benefits relationship.

BPEL

Business Process Execution Language; a standard language for defining how to send XML messages to remote services, manipulate XML data structures, receive XML messages asynchronously from remote services, manage events and exceptions, define parallel sequences of execution, and undo parts of processes when exceptions occur.

business function

A business process, or an activity that can be performed by people working within a business unit and describes how a business unit is used.

business object

A resource in an enterprise database, such as an invoice or purchase order.

business unit

A unit of an enterprise that performs one or many business functions that can be rolled up in a management hierarchy.

calculation factor

A data-driven rule for calculating a deduction or exemption.

calendar event

A period that signifies an event, such as a public holiday or a training course, that impacts worker availability.

ceiling step

Highest step within a grade that a worker may progress to.

chart of accounts

The account structure your organization uses to record transactions and maintain account balances.

COLA

Cost of living adjustment

communicated rate frequency

The time period basis for amounts that are displayed to participants in benefits self-service enrollment and the professional enrollment pages.

compa-ratio

Salary as a percentage of salary range midpoint. 100 denotes salary at midpoint.

compensation category

Group of similar compensation items that are all monetary or share the same nonmonetary units.

compensation item

The lowest level of compensation detail used to create total compensation statements. Each item maps to a source such as a payroll element entry, payroll balance, benefit balance, or a formula that locates the source of the compensation.

compensation objects

Any of an organization's workforce compensation plans and components or individual compensation plans and options for allocating salary, bonus, stock options, and so on.

competency

Any measurable behavior required by an organization, job, or position that a person may demonstrate in the work context. A competency can be a piece of knowledge, a skill, an attitude, or an attribute.

condition

An XML filter or SQL predicate WHERE clause in a data security policy that specifies what portions of a database resource are secured.

content item

An individual quality, skill, or qualification within a content type that you track in profiles.

content library

A repository of the content types and individual content items that can be associated with person profiles and profiles for workforce structures such as jobs and positions.

content type

An attribute such as a skill, quality, or qualification that is added to a profile.

context

A grouping of flexfield segments to store related information.

context segment

The flexfield segment used to store the context value. Each context value can have a different set of context-sensitive segments.

context-sensitive segment

A flexfield segment that may or may not appear depending upon a context such as other information that has been captured. Context-sensitive segments are custom attributes that apply to certain entity rows based on the value of the context segment.

contingent worker

A self-employed or agency-supplied worker. Contingent worker work relationships with legal employers are typically of a specified duration. Any person who has a contingent worker work relationship with a legal employer is a contingent worker.

contribution

Amount that a participant or employer must pay to participate in a benefit offering.

contribution column

Table columns that display compensation items representing the worker's or company's contribution amounts in a total compensation statement or compensation category.

corporate rate type

Rate you define to standardize rates used in conversion of one currency to another over a period of time. This rate is generally a standard market rate determined by senior financial management for use throughout the organization.

cost center

A unit of activity or group of employees used to assign costs for accounting purposes.

cost organization

A grouping of inventory organizations that indicates legal and financial ownership of inventory, and which establishes common costing and accounting policies.

country holding company

A legal entity that acts on behalf of several divisions within an enterprise, and is the legal employer in a country.

data dimension

A stripe of data accessed by a data role, such as the data controlled by a business unit.

data instance set

The set of human capital management (HCM) data, such as one or more persons, organizations, or payrolls, identified by an HCM security profile.

data role

A role for a defined set of data describing the job a user does within that defined set of data. A data role inherits job or abstract roles and grants entitlement to access data within a specific dimension of data based on data security policies. A type of enterprise role.

data role template

A template used to generate data roles by specifying which base roles to combine with which dimension values for a set of data security policies.

data security

The control of access to data. Data security controls what action a user can taken against which data.

data security policy

A grant of entitlement to a role on an object or attribute group for a given condition.

database item

An item of information in Fusion HCM that has special programming attached, enabling it to be located and retrieved for use in formulas.

database resource

An applications data object at the instance, instance set, or global level, which is secured by data security policies.

deduction card

A mechanism for capturing values required for calculating payroll deductions at the level of a payroll statutory unit, tax reporting unit, or payroll relationship. At the payroll relationship level, this is called a personal deduction card.

deduction range

A table that holds the rate, amount, or other items used to calculate a deduction and the range of values to which they apply.

defined rate frequency

The time period basis in which the amounts for all plans in a program, or a plan not in a program are configured, calculated, or stored.

department

A division of a business enterprise dealing with a particular area of activity.

dependent

A person who has a personal relationship with a participant in a compensation plan whom the participant designates to receive coverage through the plan.

derived factor

Calculated eligibility criterion that changes over time, such as age or length of service.

descriptive flexfield

Customizable expansion space, such as fields used to capture additional descriptive information or attributes about an entity, such as customer cases. Information collection and storage may be configured to vary based on conditions or context.

determinant

A value that determines which reference data set will be used in a specific business context.

determinant type

Designates the field within transactional columns that controls how data is shared across organizations such as business unit, asset book, cost organization or project unit. The type determines the reference data sets that would be used in a transaction.

determinant type

An additional and optional field within transactional columns (besides category and application) that is used to assign document sequences. The available determinant types are Business Unit, Ledger, Legal Entity, and Tax Registration.

determinant value

A value specific to the determinant type dimension of a document sequence. The determinant value is relevant in a document sequence assignment only if the document sequence has a determinant type. If Ledger is the determinant type for a document sequence, the determinant value is the specific ledger number whose documents are numbered by the document sequence.

disability organization

An organization with which employee disabilities are registered.

distribution

Amount paid to a participant from a plan such as a savings plan or a flexible spending account.

division

A business-oriented subdivision within an enterprise. Each division is organized to deliver products and services or address different markets.

document category

A high level grouping of person documents such as visas, licences, and medical certificates. Document subcategories provide further grouping of document categories.

document sequence

A unique number that is automatically or manually assigned to a created and saved document.

document type

A categorization of person documents that provides a set of options to control what document information to retain, who can access the documents, whether the documents require approval, and whether the documents are subject to expiry. A document type exists for a combination of document category and subcategory.

duty role

A group of function and data privileges representing one duty of a job. Duty roles are specific to applications, stored in the policy store, and shared within an Oracle Fusion Applications instance.

educational establishment

A school, college, university, or other learning institution.

effective as-of date

A date value used for filtering the search results in searches for date-effective objects. For any object that matches the search criteria, the search results include the physical record that is in effect on the specified effective as-of date.

element

Component in the calculation of a person's pay. An element may represent a compensation or benefit type, such as salary, wages, stock purchase plans, pension contributions, and medical insurance.

element classification

Provides various element controls, such as the order in which they are processed, the balances they feed, costing, and taxation. Primary element classifications and some secondary classifications are predefined. You are able to create other secondary classifications.

element eligibility

The association of an element to one or more components of a person's employment record. It establishes a person's eligibility for that element. Persons whose assignment components match the components of the element eligibility are eligible for the element.

element entry

The record controlling an employee's receipt of an element, including the period of time for which the employee receives the element and its value.

eligibility profile

A user-defined set of criteria used to determine whether a person qualifies for a benefits offering, variable rate or coverage, compensation plan, checklist task, or other object for which eligibility must be established.

emergency contact

Any of a person's contacts whom the enterprise can call in an emergency.

employment terms

A set of information about a nonworker's or employee's job, position, pay, compensation, working hours, and work location that all assignments associated with the employment terms inherit.

enterprise

An organization with one or more legal entities under common control.

enterprise role

Abstract, job, and data roles are shared across the enterprise. An enterprise role is an LDAP group. An enterprise role is propagated and synchronized across Oracle Fusion Middleware, where it is considered to be an external role or role not specifically defined within applications.

entitlement

Grants of access to functions and data. Oracle Fusion Middleware term for privilege.

extensible flexfield

Customizable expansion space, as with descriptive flexfields, but able to capture multiple sets of information within a context and multiple contexts grouped to appear in a named region of a user interface page. Some extensible flexfields allow grouping contexts into categories.

fast formula

A simple way to write formulas using English words and basic mathematical functions. Formulas are generic expressions of calculations or comparisons you want to repeat with different input values.

feature choice

A selection you make when configuring offerings that modifies a setup task list, or a setup page, or both.

fixed rate type

Rate you set between two currencies that remains constant. For example, a rate set between the euro currency and each Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) currency during the conversion to the euro currency.

flexfield

Grouping of extensible data fields called segments, where each segment is an attribute added to an entity for capturing additional information.

flexfield segment

An extensible data field that represents an attribute on an entity and captures a single atomic value corresponding to a predefined, single extension column in the Oracle Fusion Applications database. A segment appears globally or based on a context of other captured information.

free-form content type

A content type that contains a code, name, and description only, and does not contain any properties until you add it to a profile type.

FTE

Full-time equivalent, such as .5 for half-time work.

function security

The control of access to a page or a specific widget or functionality within a page. Function security controls what a user can do.

gallery

A searchable collection of portraits that combines the functions of the person directory with corporate social networking and self-service applications for both workers and managers.

generic organization hierarchy

An organization hierarchy that includes organizations of all classifications.

global area

The region across the top of the user interface. It provides access to features and tools that are relevant to any page you are on.

global name

A person's name in a format and language that can be understood throughout a multinational enterprise.

globals

Used to store values that are constant over a period of time and may be referenced in several formulas. For example, the name of a rate, a specific date, or a company term.

grade

A component of the employment model that defines the level of compensation for a worker.

grade ladder

A hierarchy used to group grades and define their sequence.

grade rate

Used to define pay values for grades in a legislative data group.

grade step

A level of increment within a grade.

gross accrual

Amount of time that an employee has accumulated in an accrual plan.

HCM

Abbreviation for Human Capital Management.

HCM data role

A job role, such as benefits administrator, associated with specified instances of Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) data, such as one or more positions or all persons in a department.

HCM securing object

An HCM object that secures access to both its own data and data in other, related objects. For example, access to a specified set of person records can allow access to data secured by person records, such as goal plans and evaluations.

HDHP

Abbreviation for High Deductible Health Plan. A plan with an annual deductible that is higher than the deductible in more traditional health plans. It is almost always used in the context of health savings accounts (HSAs).

headcount

A work measure recorded on an assignment. By default, the headcount of an organization is the total of primary assignments in primary work relationships.

HR

Abbreviation for human resource.

HR status

Tracks worker's progress through the assignment, whether the assignment is active, suspended, or inactive.

HSA

Abbreviation for health savings account. A special kind of savings account into which employees and employers make pretax contributions to accumulate funds for medical expenses that are usually associated with a high deductible health plan (HDHP).

identity

A person representing a worker, supplier, or customer.

imputed rate

Amount of plan income that is considered a fringe benefit and is subject to Section 79 of the US Internal Revenue Service code.

individual compensation

Compensation that managers can award to individual workers outside of the regular compensation cycle, such as a spot bonus or education reimbursement, or that workers can allocate for themselves such as a savings contribution percentage.

input value

Values you define to hold information for an element entry. Formulas use input values to calculate and report run results for each element entry. An input value can also hold the amount to process through payroll without a formula.

instance qualifier set

A set of values that uniquely identifies multiple instances of the same profile item.

interface table

A database table used for transferring data between applications or from an external application or data file.

inventory organization

An organization that tracks inventory transactions and balances, and can manufacture or distribute products.

item master

A collection of data that describes items and their attributes recorded in a database file.

job

A generic role that is independent of any single department or location. For example, the jobs Manager and Consultant can occur in many departments.

job family

A group of jobs that have different but related functions, qualifications, and titles. For example, a trust analyst and an operations analyst may be grouped into the Analyst job family.

job role

A role for a specific job consisting of duties, such as an accounts payable manager or application implementation consultant. A type of enterprise role.

key flexfield

Configurable key consisting of multiple parts or segments, each of which may be meaningful individually or in combination with the others. Key flexfields are commonly implemented to represent part numbers and account numbers.

key flexfield segment instance

A single occurrence of a key flexfield segment in a key flexfield structure instance.

key flexfield structure

The arrangement of segments in a key flexfield. In some cases, multiple structures can be defined for a single key flexfield.

key flexfield structure instance

A single occurrence of a key flexfield structure that shares the same order of segments as every other instance of the key flexfield structure, but uses different value sets to validate the segments.

legal authority

A government or legal body that is charged with powers such as make laws, levy and collect fees and taxes, and remit financial appropriations for a given jurisdiction.

legal employer

A legal entity that employs people.

legal entity

An entity is identified and given rights and responsibilities under commercial law, through the registration with the country's appropriate authority.

legal jurisdiction

A physical territory, such as a group of countries, single country, state, county, parish, or city, which comes under the purview of a legal authority.

legal reporting unit

The lowest level component of a legal structure that requires registrations. Used to group workers for the purpose of tax and social insurance reporting or represent a part of your enterprise with a specific statutory or tax reporting obligation.

legislative data group

A means of partitioning payroll and related data. At least one legislative data group is required for each country where the enterprise operates. Each legislative data group is associated with one or more payroll statutory units.

line of business

Set of one or more highly related products which service a particular customer transaction or business need. Refers to an internal corporate business unit.

local name

A person's name in a format and language that are readily understood by users in a single country but that may not be understood throughout a multinational enterprise.

local variable

A variable used in only one formula. The value of a local variable can change by assigning a value in an assignment statement.

lookup code

A value available for lookup within a lookup type such as the code BLUE within the lookup type COLORS.

lookup type

A set of lookup codes to be used together as a list of values on a field in the user interface.

mainline

A branch of data that serves as a single source of truth.

managed person

In Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management security, a person for whom the user can maintain some information. For example, line managers can maintain information about their direct and indirect reports, and workers can maintain information about themselves, their dependents, and their beneficiaries.

model profile

A collection of the work requirements and required skills and qualifications of a workforce structure, such as a job or position.

natural account

Categorizes account segment values by account type, asset, liability, expense, revenue, or equity, and sets posting, budgeting, and other options.

net accrual

Amount of time in an accrual plan that an enrolled employee can use to take leave.

node

A logical term that refers to the actual data in a specific data source such as a product-specific table or a storage entity that has been established by the tree management solution.

nonworker

A person, such as a volunteer or retiree, who is not engaged in the core businesses of the enterprise or legal employer but who may receive payments from a legal employer. Any person who has a nonworker work relationship with a legal employer is a nonworker.

object group

User-defined set of elements, persons, or deduction card information for processing, reporting, data entry, and costing distributions.

offering

A comprehensive grouping of business functions, such as Sales or Product Management, that is delivered as a unit to support one or more business processes.

option

A category of coverage that participants can elect under one or more plans, such as employee plus spouse under a medical plan, or two times annual salary under a life insurance plan. The option level is subordinate to the plan level in the benefits object hierarchy.

option in plan

A category of coverage available for election that is associated with a plan in a benefits object hierarchy.

OWLCS

Abbreviation for Oracle WebLogic Communication Services. Offers the TPCC service to Fusion applications and sets up the calls via SIP integration with the telephony network.

participant

Person other than the manager who provides feedback about a worker's performance or development upon request.

participant feedback

Responses to questions about an individual by people other than the direct manager or a designated performance manager of the individual. Participants provide responses on questionnaires that are part of the performance document and are saved as part of the official evaluation.

payroll relationship type

A predefined value used by the application to control how person records are grouped into payroll relationships. If a person has more than one payroll relationship type, for example, both an employee and a contingent worker in the same payroll statutory unit, there would be multiple payroll relationships for that person.

payroll status

Indicates if the assignment is processed by payroll. Valid values are Process and Do not Process.

payroll statutory unit

A legal entity registered to report payroll tax and social insurance. A legal employer can also be a payroll statutory unit, but a payroll statutory unit can represent multiple legal employers.

pending worker

A person who will be hired or start a contingent worker placement and for whom you create a person record that is effective before the hire or start date.

performance document

The online document used to evaluate a worker for a specific time period. The document contains the content on which the worker can be evaluated, which could include goals and competencies. Workers and managers can provide ratings and comments if the document is configured to allow them to do so.

performance process flow

The tasks, and the order in which those tasks are performed, in a performance evaluation. The process flow is included in the performance template and applied to all performance documents generated using this template.

person number

A person ID that is unique in the enterprise, allocated automatically or manually, and valid throughout the enterprise for all of a person's work and person-to-person relationships.

person type

A subcategory of a system person type, which the enterprise can define. Person type is specified for a person at the employment-terms or assignment level.

personally identifiable information

Any piece of information that can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person. Within the context of an enterprise, some PII data can be considered public, such as a person's name and work phone number, while other PII data is confidential, such as national identifier or passport number.

PL/SQL

Abbreviation for procedural structured queried language.

plan type

A category of benefits grouped according to the type of benefit provided to facilitate their management. You specify parameters to control how plans of the same plan type behave.

portrait

A selection of information about a worker or nonworker, including contact details, social connections, and activities and interests, that can be viewed and edited. Both the amount and type of information and the available actions depend on the role of the portrait user.

position

A specific occurrence of one job, fixed within one department, also often one location. For example, the position Finance Manager is an instance of the job Manager in the Finance Department.

primary ledger

Main record-keeping ledger.

primary work schedule

Schedule that the application uses to determine the worker's availability.

privilege

A grant or entitlement of access to functions and data. A privilege is a single, real world action on a single business object.

profile option

User preferences and system configuration options consisting of a name and a value, that can be set at hierarchical levels of an enterprise. Also called a profile or user option.

profile option level

A level at which profile option values are defined. Site, product, and user are predefined levels.

profile option level hierarchy

The ordering of profile option levels. The order of the levels in the hierarchy determines which levels take precedence.

profile option value

The value portion of a profile option's name and value. A profile option may have multiple values set at different levels, such as site or user.

profile type

A template that defines the content sections of a profile, role access for each section, and whether the profile is for a person, or for a workforce structure such as a job or position.

program

A package of benefits offerings defined at the top of the benefits object hierarchy that sets general boundaries for all lower level components.

project expenditure organization

An organization that can incur expenditures and hold financial plans for projects.

PSTN

Abbreviation for public switched telephone network which is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks.

public person

In Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management security, a person for whom some basic information is publicly available. For example, users typically access the contact details of public persons, such as phone numbers and locations, using the person gallery.

question library

A central repository of reusable questions that are available to add to questionnaires.

questionnaire

A set of questions that respondents are asked to complete that are presented in a specific order and format. It can include open-ended question or items with selection lists.

rank

Worker's assigned rank indicating where they stand with respect to others in a manager's organization, where 1 is the highest performing, or most valuable, worker.

ranking percentile

Value given to a worker that represents the percentile rank among total workers ranked in a manager's organization, where 100 is the highest ranked worker.

ranking score

Calculated value between 0 and 100 using all rankings given to a worker by all subordinate managers.

rating model

A scale used to measure the performance and proficiency of workers.

reference data

Data in application tables that is not transactional and not high-volume such as sales methods, transaction types, or payment terms, and can be shared and used across organizational boundaries.

reference data set

Contains reference data that can be shared across a number of business units or other determinant types. A set supports common administration of that reference data.

reference group

A logical grouping of tables that correspond to logical entities such as payment terms defined across multiple tables or views. Grouping establishes common partitioning requirements across the entities causing them to share the same set assignments.

regional area

The collapsible region on the left side of the work area, containing controls that refresh, manipulate, or otherwise update the local area.

registration

The record of a party's identity related details with the appropriate government or legal authorities for the purpose of claiming and ensuring legal and or commercial rights and responsibilities.

reporting establishment

An organization used in the production of human resources (HR) reports that are required by government agencies.

retroactive process

A process that recalculates the amount to pay a person in the current period to account for retrospective changes that occurred in previous payroll periods.

return statement

A statement used to return values in local variables in a fast formula.

role

Controls access to application functions and data.

role deprovisioning

The automatic or manual removal of an abstract role, a job role, or a data role from a user.

role hierarchy

Structure of roles to reflect an organization's lines of authority and responsibility. In a role hierarchy, a parent role inherits all the entitlement of one or more child roles.

role mapping

A relationship between one or more job roles, abstract roles, and data roles and one or more conditions. Depending on role-mapping options, the role can be provisioned to or by users with at least one assignment that matches the conditions in the role mapping.

role provisioning

The automatic or manual allocation of an abstract role, a job role, or a data role to a user.

salary basis

A set of characteristics associated with a worker's base pay that identifies the payroll details used to pay base earnings, the period of time in which base pay is quoted, the factor used to annualize base pay, any components used to attribute base pay adjustments to different reasons, and any associated grade rate for salary validation.

salary component

Change reasons that enable itemization of salary adjustments by entering amounts or percentages for one or more components, such as merit or cost of living adjustment.

sandbox

A runtime session that commits changes out of reach of mainline users.

security profile

A set of criteria that identifies one or more human capital management (HCM) objects of a single type for the purposes of securing access to those objects. Security profiles can be defined for persons, organizations, positions, countries, LDGs, document types, payrolls, payroll flows, and workforce business processes.

security reference implementation

Predefined function and data security in Oracle Fusion Applications, including role based access control, and policies that protect functions, data, and segregation of duties. The reference implementation supports identity management, access provisioning, and security enforcement across the tools, data transformations, access methods, and the information life cycle of an enterprise.

segregation of duties

An internal control to prevent a single individual from performing two or more phases of a business transaction or operation that could result in fraud.

set

Reference data that is organized into groups appropriate to organizational entities, to enable reference data sharing.

set enabled

An entity, such as a lookup, customer, location, organization, or document attachment, that is allowed to participate in reference data sharing by drawing on the data of a reference data set.

shell plan

Placeholder plan used to store calculated information, such as the total imputed income for a plan that is subject to imputed income.

SOA

Abbreviation for service-oriented architecture.

spot rate type

Rate you enter to perform conversion based on this rate as of a specific date. This rate applies to the immediate delivery of a currency.

SQL predicate

A type of condition using SQL to constrain the data secured by a data security policy.

system person type

A fixed name that the application uses to identify a group of people.

tax reporting unit

A legal entity that groups workers for the purpose of tax and social insurance reporting.

territory

A legally distinct region that is used in the country field of an address.

top-level category

Highest level of compensation category displayed hierarchically in a total compensation statement definition. Each top-level category can contain compensation items, subcategories nested within it, or a combination of items and subcategories.

total compensation statement

A statement that communicates compensation, rewards, and benefits to workers. The statement can include compensation often overlooked by workers, such as fringe benefits or perks, company contributions towards health and welfare benefits, the value of stock grants, and paid time off.

transfer

The movement of a person within the same legal employer.

tree

Information or data organized for display into a hierarchy with one or more root nodes connected to branches of nodes. Each node corresponds to data from one or more data sources. A tree must have a structure.

tree node

Corresponds to a primary key in a view object of data.

tree structure

Characteristics applied to trees, such as what data to include or how the tree is versioned and accessed.

tree version

An instance of a tree. If a tree is associated with a reference data set, all versions belong to one set. Includes life cycle elements such as start and end date and a status indicator whether the tree is active or not.

user rate type

Rate you enter at journal entry time to convert foreign currency transactions to your functional currency.

user-defined criteria

Custom factors used to determine eligibility for objects such as benefits offerings and rates, compensation plans, and checklist tasks.

user-defined table

Structures of rows and columns that maintain date-tracked lists of values. The values are stored as cells for specific row and column combinations.

value set

A set of valid values against which values entered by an end user are validated. The set may be tree structured (hierarchical).

variable coverage profile

A set of attributes that define the coverage amount for a benefit offering that varies based on one or more factors.

variable rate profile

A set of attributes that define the cost of a benefit offering that varies based on one or more factors.

work relationship

An association between a person and a legal employer, where the worker type determines whether the relationship is a nonworker, contingent worker, or employee work relationship.

work schedule exception

An event that impacts the normal working pattern in a work schedule.

worker type

A classification selected on a person's work relationship, which can be employee, contingent worker, pending worker, or nonworker.

workforce business process

A defined sequence of tasks, registered for the enterprise, that delivers a major business goal. The tasks may be allocated to multiple roles across multiple products.

XML filter

A type of condition using XML to constrain the data secured by a data security policy.