Delivered Elements
Global Payroll defines each business process for Australia in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legislative requirements. Others support common or customary payroll practices.
All of the elements and rules delivered as part of your country extension were created using the core application—the same application that you use both to create additional elements or rules, and to configure existing elements delivered as part of the Global Payroll application. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application PeopleBook, that information does not appear here. Instead, this PeopleBook briefly reviews the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools that you need to define your own elements and rules) and the country extensions (which contain country-specific rules and elements defined by PeopleSoft).
The core application has the following characteristics:
It consists of a payroll rules engine—a flexible tool that enables you to define the rules and elements of the payroll system and execute payroll and absence calculations.
Global Payroll does not embed payroll-specific logic or computations in application code. Instead, it specifies all business application logic—such as earnings, deductions, absences, and accumulators—in terms of payroll rules and elements. Global Payroll enables you to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages, and it offers a comprehensive set of features that enable you to work in your preferred language or currency.
It provides a payroll processing framework—a flexible way to define and execute payroll and absence processing flows, such as calendars, run types, pay periods, and process lists.
Country extensions have the following characteristics:
They are built using the core application.
They consist of statutory and customary objects (country-specific payroll rules, elements, payroll processes, reports, pages, and self-service applications).
The delivered elements and rules of the Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether they are owned and maintained by you or by PeopleSoft. Some elements and rules are maintained exclusively by PeopleSoft and cannot be modified, while others can be configured to meet requirements unique to each organization.
Element Ownership in Global Payroll
There are five categories of element ownership:
Field or Control |
Description |
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PS Delivered/Maintained (PeopleSoft-delivered and maintained) |
Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft. |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained (PeopleSoft-delivered but not maintained) |
Elements delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the organization. This category consists primarily of either customary (or non-statutory) rules and statutory elements that organizations may want to define according to different interpretations of the rules. Although PeopleSoft may occasionally update elements defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates. |
Customer Maintained |
Elements created and maintained by the organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained. |
PS Delivered/Customer Modified (PeopleSoft-delivered and customer-maintained) |
Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which the organization has decided to take control. This change is irreversible. |
PS Delivered / Maintained / Secure |
Delivered elements that the organization can never modify or control. |
Element Ownership in Global Payroll for Australia
Of the five ownership categories listed in the previous section, only PS Delivered/Maintained and PS Delivered/Not Maintained are used to define Australian elements. Although Global Payroll for Australia delivers some elements as PS Delivered/Maintained, most elements are designated PS Delivered/Not Maintained. This enables you to modify, update, and reconfigure the delivered elements to meet needs that are specific to your organization.
Note: In general, Global Payroll for Australia uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Not Maintained unless the modification of an element might interfere with calculations that satisfy legislative requirements. The benefits of this approach are evident if you consider the setup of delivered accumulators. Because balance accumulators (for example, those storing taxable gross on a year-to-date basis) must be set up to comply with the legislative requirement for calculating taxes, Global Payroll for Australia defines them as PS Delivered/Maintained. You cannot modify or directly add new elements to them. However, you can add new elements to these accumulators by using the delivered segment accumulators, which serve as the entry point into the system. They are not maintained by PeopleSoft. When you define a new earning or deduction, you can assign the element to a segment accumulator, and the segment accumulator automatically contributes to the correct balance accumulators.
In the following table of elements supplied with Global Payroll for Australia, the element ownership is PS Delivered/Not Maintained, with exceptions shown in the right-hand column.
Note: The following element types have no exceptions and are therefore not shown in the table: Absence Entitlement, Absence Take, Count, Duration, Date, Element Group, Earning, Generation Control, Historical Data Rule, Process, Rate Code, Rounding Rule, and Writable Array.
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Element Type |
Exceptions |
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Accumulators |
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Array |
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Bracket |
Australian: FTB Rates, HELP Rates, and SFSS Rates. |
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Deduction |
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Formula |
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Section |
Tax Deduction Section, TAX - DED |
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Variable |
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