Understanding Delivered Elements for New Zealand
Global Payroll defines each business process for New Zealand in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legislative requirements, while 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 you will use both to create additional elements or rules, and to configure existing elements delivered as part of your Global Payroll system. Because the tools needed to redefine or create new payroll elements are fully documented in the core application PeopleBook, we do not reproduce this information here. Instead, we briefly review the relationship between the core application (which contains the tools 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 users to define the rules and elements of their 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 the user to enter and maintain payroll rules through a set of pages and offers a comprehensive set of features that enable the user to work in their 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 your Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether they are owned and maintained by the customer 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 5 categories of element ownership:
Field or Control |
Description |
|---|---|
PS Delivered/Maintained |
Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft. |
PS Delivered/Not Maintained |
Elements delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained by the customer. This category consists primarily of either customary (non-statutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation 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 your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained. |
PS Delivered/Customer Modified |
Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which the customer has decided to take control (this change is irreversible). |
PS Delivered/Maintained/ Secure |
Delivered elements that the customer can never modify or control. |
Element Ownership in Global Payroll for New Zealand
Of the five ownership categories listed in the previous section, only PS Delivered/Maintained and PS Delivered/Not Maintained are used to define elements for New Zealand. Although Global Payroll for New Zealand delivers some elements as PS Delivered/Maintained, the large majority of 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 New Zealand uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Not Maintained except where the modification of an element might interfere with calculations designed to satisfy legislative requirements. The value of this approach is clearly evident in 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 New Zealand defines them as PS Delivered/Maintained (meaning you cannot modify or directly add new elements to them). However, you can add new elements to these accumulators using the delivered segment accumulators, which serve as the basic entry point into the system and are not maintained by PeopleSoft. Therefore, 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 New Zealand, the ownership of all elements is PS Delivered/Not Maintained with exceptions shown in the Exceptions column.
Note: These element types have no exceptions so are not shown in the table: Absence Entitlement, Absence Take, Count, Duration, Element Group, Earning, Process, Rate Code, Rounding Rule, Section.
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Element Type |
Exceptions |
|---|---|
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Accumulators |
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Array |
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Bracket |
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Deduction |
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Date |
Calculate Specified Period (TAX DT CLC SPC PRD) |
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Formula |
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Generation Control |
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Manage Historical Data Rule |
Determine payee's 4 weeks pay (TAX HR 4 WEEKS PAY) |
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Variable |
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Writable Array |
Write IRD Payroll Results (TAX WA IRD RESULTS) |