PeopleSoft HR 9.1 PeopleBook: Manage Commitment Accounting

Getting Started with Manage Commitment Accounting

This chapter discusses:

Manage Commitment Accounting overview
Manage Commitment Accounting business processes.
Manage Commitment Accounting integrations.
Manage Commitment Accounting implementation.

Manage Commitment Accounting Overview

The PeopleSoft HR Manage Commitment Accounting business process enables you to budget for payroll expenses and track actual payroll costs. You can exchange this information with PeopleSoft Financials to keep both systems in sync and to keep your budgeting information accurate. The HR Manage Commitment Accounting business process is the PeopleSoft HCM part of the larger Commitment Control business process available in the core PeopleSoft Financials product line.

Manage Commitment Accounting Business Processes

Use the Manage Commitment Accounting business process to define fiscal year budgets, calculate earnings and fringe encumbrances and pre-encumbrances, and post encumbrances to your general ledger, and post actual earnings and fringe amounts to your general ledger.

The following process flow illustrates the Manage Commitment Accounting business processes:

Setting up and using the Commitment Accounting business process

What happens when you publish to PeopleSoft Financials depends on which version of PeopleSoft Financials you are using.

We cover these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

Manage Commitment Accounting Integrations

Manage Commitment Accounting integrates with these PeopleSoft applications:

PeopleSoft HR: Administer Workforce (receives information).
PeopleSoft HR: Base Benefits (receives information).
PeopleSoft Time and Labor (sends and receives information).
PeopleSoft Payroll for North America (sends and receives information).
PeopleSoft Budgeting (sends and receives information).
PeopleSoft General Ledger (sends and receives information).
PeopleSoft Commitment Control (sends and receives information).

PeopleSoft HR Manage Commitment Accounting uses Integration Broker to integrate with the other PeopleSoft HCM products. Use the processes provided to send and receive information with PeopleSoft Financials.

We cover integration considerations in this PeopleBook and the PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals PeopleBook.

See PeopleSoft HCM Application Fundamentals Preface.

Manage Commitment Accounting Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phases of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps.