Element Ownership and Maintenance

The delivered elements and rules of your Global Payroll country extension can be classified according to whether they are owned and maintained by the customer or by PeopleSoft. Some elements and rules are maintained exclusively by PeopleSoft and cannot be modified, while others can be configured to meet requirements unique to each organization.

Element Ownership in PeopleSoft Global Payroll

There are five categories of element ownership in Global Payroll.

Term	Definition
PS Delivered/Maintained	Elements delivered and maintained on an ongoing basis by PeopleSoft.
PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Elements PeopleSoft delivers that can be modified or reconfigured by the customer. This category consists primarily of either customary (non-statutory) rules or statutory elements that customers may want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although PeopleSoft may occasionally update elements defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.
Customer Maintained	Elements created and maintained by your organization. PeopleSoft does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained.
PS Delivered/Customer Modified	Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which the customer has decided to take control (this change is irreversible).
PS Delivered / Maintained / Secure	Delivered elements that the customer can never modify or control.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll for Brazil

Of the five ownership categories listed here, only the following two are used to define Brazilian elements: PS Delivered/Maintained and PS Delivered/Not Maintained. Although Global Payroll for Brazil delivers some elements as PS Delivered/Maintained, the large majority of elements are designated PS Delivered/Not Maintained. This enables you to modify, update, and reconfigure the delivered elements to meet needs that are specific to your organization.

Note:

In general, Global Payroll for Brazil uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Not Maintained except where the modification of an element might interfere with calculations designed to satisfy strict (and generally invariable) legal requirements. The value of this approach is clearly evident in the setup of delivered accumulators. Because balance accumulators (for example, those storing taxable gross on a year-to-date basis) must be set up to comply with rigid legal requirement for reporting taxes and contributions, Global Payroll for Brazil defines them as PS Delivered/Maintained (meaning you cannot modify or directly add new elements to them). However, you can add new elements to these accumulators using the delivered segment accumulators, which serve as the basic entry point into the system and are not maintained by PeopleSoft. Therefore, when you define a new earning or deduction, you can assign the element to a segment accumulator, and the segment accumulator automatically contributes to the correct balance accumulators.