Creation of Delivered Elements

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).