Fictitious Calculations

Define fictitious calculation rules when you want the system to perform a temporary calculation and return a value without having to store it. A fictitious calculation is a sub-calculation that is run during a normal calculation to determine a net that would be computed if certain parameters were used. This result is used for further processing in the normal calculation. A fictitious calculation always starts from inside a normal calculation and is run for one payee and for a specified set of periods. The intermediate results of a fictitious calculation are not needed and are ignored, except for the small subset of results brought forward to the normal calculation.

One example of using a fictitious calculation is maternity leave. Let's say that you provide payees with three months of pay for maternity based on the average net of the three months preceding the leave. The average net is calculated only when a certain condition (in this case, maternity) is met. As long as the payee is on maternity leave, the average is needed. If certain values change, the average must be recalculated for the original three periods, even if the change in values is effective-dated for a later date.