Creation of Delivered Elements

PeopleSoft Global Payroll defines each business process for Brazil in terms of delivered elements and rules. Some of these elements and rules are specifically designed to meet legal 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 (in many cases) 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 product documentation, this documentation does not reproduce this information. Instead, it briefly reviews 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 perform 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 run 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).

PeopleSoft delivers a query that you can run to view the names of all delivered elements designed for Brazil. Instructions for running the query are provided in the PeopleSoft HCM: Global Payroll product documentation.