Automatically Generated Accumulators

When you define an earning or deduction element, you can specify which accumulators to create. For example, a year-to-date accumulator for an earning or deduction element. You can base the accumulators on calendar periods, fiscal periods, or both. You can also indicate whether you want to store amounts, units, or both and the periods that you want to store in the accumulator: period-, month-, quarter-, or year-to-date.

Note:

Although the system creates automatically generated accumulators for earning and deduction elements, it does not update these accumulators. This is because Absence Management does not resolve earning and deduction elements. The use of these accumulators is applicable to PeopleSoft Global Payroll.

Like components, automatically generated accumulators take on the attributes of the corresponding earning or deduction element and use the suffixes that you define on the Earnings and Deductions page of the Element Suffixes component (GP_SUFFIX).

Note:

The only accumulators whose attributes are tied directly to an earning element or deduction element are those that are automatically generated by the Earning component (GP_EARNING) or the Deductions component (GP_DEDUCTION). Attributes of accumulators that you create using the Accumulators component (GP_ACCUMULATOR) are not tied directly to earning or deduction elements.