Elements

Global Payroll contains no application-specific rules or code. Using pay items called elements, you build rules that determine what payroll or absence components are calculated, on a payee-by-payee basis, during batch processing.

Elements provide system flexibility. With no payroll rules in the code line, you don't depend on programmers to make system changes. Your functional team members can do most of the maintenance and changes. The system provides utilities to process the entered rules and operates using the element names you've applied.

You'll name and define many elements in Global Payroll, including:

• Earnings

• Deductions

• Formulas

• Proration rules

• Rounding rules

• Accumulators

With a few exceptions, an element resolves to a value. For instance, you might create an element called SALARY that resolves to a specific number; for example, 50,000 for a particular payee and 67,000 for another.

Once an element is defined, you can associate it with a specific country or with all countries. You can even group elements by industry, category, or up to five database fields that are user-defined. The ability to group elements in various ways adds further flexibility to your payroll system.

You can set up elements in any language that is supported by PeopleSoft. PeopleSoft provides translations for all delivered system elements, and you can define the elements you create in more than one language. An organization building a payroll might use some or all of these languages. In short, each organization has the opportunity to create a payroll specific to its needs—in any or all languages—without having to rework the internal processes of the system.