Payroll for North America Business Processes

Payroll for North America supports the following business processes:

Set Up and Maintain Core Payroll Tables

Core payroll tables are the tables that are required to implement the Payroll for North America application, including organization tables, compensation and earnings tables, deduction tables, pay calendar tables, garnishment tables, vendor tables, general ledger interface, tax tables, retroactive processing, and tip allocation.

Set Up and Maintain Employee Pay Data

Employee pay data includes personal data, job data, benefits data, federal, state/provincial, and local tax information, general and benefit deductions, additional pay, garnishments, and direct deposits.

Process the Payroll

The basic steps of payroll processing are: create paysheets, pay calculation, pay confirmation, and generate checks and direct deposits. You can employ audit reports and data review pages to verify and correct the results of each step before moving on. You can also review and adjust employee balances.

Post to General Ledger

Use the integration with PeopleSoft General Ledger and Enterprise One General Ledger to transfer the expenses and liabilities incurred from a pay run to the General Ledger application.

Pay Taxes

Use the integration with PeopleSoft Payables to transmit tax data to the Payables application for automatic payment to tax authorities.

Pay Third Parties

Use the integration with Payables to transmit employee and employer deductions such as garnishments and benefit deductions to the Payables application for automatic payment to third parties.

Produce Reports

Payroll for North America provides dozens of reports to help you monitor payroll processing and comply with regulatory and tax reporting requirements. You can view reports online or print hard copies. You can also tailor the reports to fit the special needs of your organization.

Optional Features

Within the framework of payroll processing already outlined, Payroll for North America supports the following additional business processes:

  • Group-term life insurance imputed income (U.S. and Canada).

  • (USA) Tip allocation.

  • (USA) FLSA and Alternative Overtime processing.

  • (CAN) Canada Payroll Savings programs.

  • (CAN) Canadian low-interest loans.

  • (CAN) Business Payrolls Survey reporting.

  • (CAN) Record of Employment reporting.

  • (USF) Credit military service to civilian retirement.

  • (USF) Pay caps and limits processing.

  • (USF) Within grade increase/tenure nonpay hours processing.

  • (USF) Agency interface processing.

  • (USF) Individual Retirement Record and Register of Separations and Transfers reporting.

  • (E&G) Contract pay administration.

  • (E&G) Tax treaty processing for nonresident aliens.

We discuss these business processes in the business process topics in this production documentation.