Accumulators

You use accumulator elements to store and track balances. You can store an accumulator for a designated period of time. For example, you can store gross pay data for one year. The system creates some accumulators automatically (automatically generated accumulators), and you can create others manually (additional accumulators).

There are two types of accumulators:

• Payment accumulators, which accumulate values through gross-to-net calculations.

• Balance accumulators, which accumulate values over a period of time, such as a month or a year.

You can also define the level at which you want to track a balance. For example, you can track a balance by payee record number, payee ID, department, or organization. You set up the tracking levels that work best for your organization.