Element Ownership and Maintenance

The delivered elements and rules of the 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 Global Payroll

Five categories of element ownership exist in Global Payroll.

Term	Definition
PS Delivered/Maintained	Elements that Oracle delivers and maintains on an ongoing.
PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Elements that Oracle delivers that you can modify or reconfigure. This category consists primarily of either customary (nonstatutory) rules or statutory elements that you might want to define according to a different interpretation of the rules. Although Oracle might occasionally update elements that are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained, you are not required to apply these updates.
Customer Maintained	Elements that your organization creates and maintains. Oracle does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained.
PS Delivered/Customer Modified	Elements that were originally PS Delivered/Maintained elements over which you have decided to take control (this change is irreversible).
PS Delivered/Maintained/ Secure	Delivered elements that you can never modify or control.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll for India

Of the five categories of element ownership, only the following two are used to define Indian elements: PS Delivered/Maintained and PS Delivered/Not Maintained. Although Global Payroll for India 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 India 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, such as in the case of taxes. 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 requirements for reporting taxes and contributions, Global Payroll for India defines them as PS Delivered/Maintained (meaning that you cannot modify or directly add new elements to them). However, you can add new elements to these accumulators by 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.

The following table contains an element-by-element description of the Global Payroll for India approach to element ownership and maintenance:

Element Type	Ownership	Exceptions
Earning	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related earnings are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Deduction	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related deductions are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Variable	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related variables are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Bracket	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related brackets are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Accumulator	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related accumulators are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Element Group	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related element groups are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Process List	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related process lists are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Section	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related sections are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Formula	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related formulas are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Array	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related arrays are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Writable Array	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related writable arrays are PS Delivered/Maintained.
Generation Control	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Tax-related generation controls are PS Delivered/Maintained.