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 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 delivered by PeopleSoft that must be maintained 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 Singapore

Of the five ownership categories described here, only these two are used to define Singapore elements:

• PS Delivered/Maintained.

• PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

In general, Global Payroll for Singapore mostly uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Not Maintained except where the modification of an element might interfere with calculations designed to satisfy legislative requirements.

The following table contains an element-by-element description of Global Payroll for Singapore's approach to element ownership and maintenance.

Element Type	Ownership	Exceptions
Accumulators	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF MTD, SEG and YTD accumulators.
Absence Entitlements	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None.
Arrays	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF personal data and rates arrays. IRS arrays.
Absence Takes	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None.
Brackets	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	The CPF brackets are PS Delivered/Maintained/Secure.
Counts	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF counts.
Deductions	PS Delivered/Maintained	ESPP. Parking and social club. Insurance, loans and leave without pay.
Durations	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF durations.
Dates	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF dates.
Element Groups	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None.
Earnings	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None.
Formulas	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF formulas.
Generation Controls	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF generation controls.
Manage Historical Data Rules	PS Delivered/Maintained	None.
Proration Rules	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF proration rules.
Processes	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None.
Rate Codes	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None.
Rounding Rules	PS Delivered/Maintained	None.
Sections	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	CPF sections.
Variables	PS Delivered/Maintained	Areas common to multiple functional areas (prefix CMN). Some CPF variables which are either PS Delivered/Not Maintained or PS Delivered/Maintained/Secure. Other earnings (prefix ERN). Other deductions (prefix DED). Payslip message variables (PSLP).

See PeopleSoft Global Payroll product documentation for more information.