18 Overview to Accounts Payable Integration

This chapter contains these topics:

18.1 Objectives

  • To use the Payroll system to create vouchers for payroll taxes and other payroll liability amounts

18.2 About Accounts Payable Integration

If you have the JD Edwards World Accounts Payable system, you can integrate your payroll processing with the Accounts Payable system. This enables you to use payroll information to create vouchers for payroll taxes and other payroll liability amounts. You can set up payees for any tax type or DBA. When you integrate the two systems, the Payroll system can create vouchers for these payees for employee withholdings and company-paid benefits and taxes.

With an integrated Payroll system, you can:

  • Review voucher information

  • Create vouchers during the final update step of the payroll cycle

  • Post vouchers to the general ledger

Accounts payable integration includes:

  • Setting up A/P integration

  • Working with vouchers

After you set up your Payroll system to integrate with the Accounts Payable system, the Payroll system creates vouchers during the payroll cycle. The Accounts Payable system uses the vouchers to print payments to the payees. You should review these vouchers to ensure that they are correct and then post the vouchers to the general ledger.

18.2.1 When Are Vouchers Created?

If you have set up your Payroll system for A/P integration, the system creates pro forma vouchers during the journal entries step of the payroll cycle. The system creates the actual vouchers in the Accounts Payable system when you process the final update.

You must process interim checks through a regular payroll cycle to create vouchers for the DBAs and taxes included in the interim check. The system does not create vouchers for interim checks that you process through the interactive interim check update.

18.2.2 How Does Payroll Summarize Transactions for Vouchers?

You can choose from several methods for summarizing detailed transactions for vouchers. If you do not specify otherwise, the system creates:

  • One DBA voucher per payee

  • One tax voucher per payee and corporate tax ID

In some cases, you might need to separate vouchers by employee, union or group, DBA, or tax type. You can set up payee voucher rules to accommodate these needs.