Automatically Generated Accumulators

When you define an earning or deduction element, you specify which accumulators to create. For example, you probably want to create a year-to-date accumulator for every earning element and every deduction element that you define. You can base the accumulators on calendar periods, fiscal periods, or both. You can also indicate whether you want to store amounts, units, or both and the periods that you want to store in the accumulator—period, month, quarter, or year.

Like components, automatically generated accumulators take on the attributes of the corresponding earning or deduction element and use the suffixes that you define on the Earnings and Deductions page of the Element Suffixes component (GP_SUFFIX).

Note:

The only accumulators whose attributes are linked directly to an earning element or deduction element are those that are automatically generated by the Earnings component (GP_EARNING) or the Deductions component (GP_DEDUCTION). Attributes of accumulators that you create using the Accumulators component (GP_ACCUMULATOR) are not linked directly to earning or deduction elements.