Element Ownership and Maintenance

This topic describes the PeopleSoft approach to element ownership and what this means for the maintenance of Spanish payroll rules. This information helps clarify which parts of the system you might be required to maintain, what you can modify, and what parts of the system you cannot change.

Element Ownership in Global Payroll

Five types of element ownership are available in Global Payroll:

Term	Definition
PS Delivered/Maintained	Elements that Oracle delivers and maintains on an ongoing basis.
PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Elements that Oracle delivers that must be maintained by the customer. This type of element ownership consists primarily of either customary (nonstatutory) rules or statutory elements that customers 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 the organization creates and maintains. Oracle does not deliver rules defined as Customer Maintained.
PS Delivered/Customer Modified	Elements that are originally PS Delivered/Maintained over which the customer decides to take control (this change is irreversible).
PS Delivered/Maintained/ Secure	Delivered elements that the customer can never modify or control.

Element Ownership in PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain

Of the five ownership types described previously, only these two are used to define Spanish elements:

• PS Delivered/Maintained.

• PS Delivered/Not Maintained.

Although PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain 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 delivered elements to meet your own unique requirements.

Note:

In general, PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain uses the ownership category PS Delivered/Not Maintained except where the modification of an element might interfere with calculations designed to satisfy strict legal requirements. The value of this approach is 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 legal requirements for reporting taxes and contributions, PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain 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 using delivered specific segment accumulators, which serve as the basic entry point into the system and are not maintained by Oracle.

PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain delivers these customer-oriented segment accumulators using the CLI AC NAME naming convention. Therefore, when you define a new earning or deduction, you can assign the element to a segment accumulator (CLI), and the segment accumulator automatically contributes to the correct balance accumulators.

See Understanding PeopleSoft Global Payroll Core Functionality in Spain.

This table contains an element-by-element description of the PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Spain approach to element ownership and maintenance:

Element Type	Ownership	Exceptions
Earnings	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Social security benefits.
Deduction	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Taxes (IRPF) and social security deductions.
Variable	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Variables used in social security or tax calculations.
Bracket	PS Delivered/Maintained	None
Accumulator	PS Delivered/Not Maintained for segment accumulators. Delivered/Maintained otherwise.	In the tax and social security areas, Oracle delivers the balance accumulators as PS Delivered/Maintained, but the segment accumulators as PS Delivered/Not Maintained.
Element Group	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None
Process List	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None
Section	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None
Formula	PS Delivered/Not Maintained, but this varies by functional area	Almost all formulas used in social security or tax calculations are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained. Otherwise, formulas are defined as PS Delivered/Not Maintained.
Array	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Arrays used in social security or tax calculations are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained.
Writable Array	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Writable arrays used in social security or tax calculations are defined as PS Delivered/Maintained.
Historical Rule	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	Historical Rules used for Social Security calculations or tax calculations.
Generation Control	PS Delivered/Not Maintained	None