Calculation Rules

When you define an earning or deduction element, you select from one of four calculation rules:

• Unit × rate.

• Unit × rate × percent.

• Base × percent.

• Amount.

An element's calculation rule determines which values the system can transmit to your payroll system after you process absence events.

In most cases, you'll want to select a calculation rule of unit × rate or unit × rate × percent. This enables you to pass the units of paid and unpaid time calculated by the Absence Take process to your payroll system. Absence Management will pass along the retrieved value for rate, percent, and amount, if these are part of the calculation rule, but its does not calculate values for these components.