Payroll Balances for UAE

Payroll balances show the accumulation of values over a period of time. The values can be currency, hours, or any other numeric.

Most of the required balances are predefined and additional balances are created automatically when creating elements. You can edit the definition of these generated balances, or create additional balances for calculations or reporting.

When a balance definition (balance type) is created, the balance category and a unit of measure can be selected. Each balance definition is grouped in a predefined balance category for quicker processing. Balance categories are legislation-specific and can't be modified.

Each balance can have multiple dimensions, which define the specific value to be retrieved. Balance dimensions are predefined and typically combine these components:

• Time span, such as run, period to date, or fiscal year to date.
• Employment relationship level, either assignment, terms, or payroll relationship.
• Context, required for some balances only, such as tax reporting unit (TRU), element, or payroll.

When a specific balance dimension is linked to a balance type, this results in creating a defined balance. The value assigned to a balance during processing is determined by balance feeds defined for the balance.

Balance feeds can be by element input values or by balance classification run results.

• Balance Feeds by Element: Indicates one or more element input values to add or subtract from a balance. If a balance is fed by a single element, it is called a primary balance.
• Balance Feeds by Classification: Indicates that all elements belonging to a specific classification will feed that balance. Any type of classification can be used to feed the balance but if a primary classification is added as a balance feed, the children of this classification from the secondary or subclassifications can't be added. You can't use both secondary classifications and subclassifications in the same balance feed.

Balances are important for reporting because in most of the reports balances represent the values that are displayed in the output. Balances can be aggregated (through balance attributes) in balance groups and balance groups are the entities that are used by payroll reports to identify the balances to be included in specific sections of the report.

UAE localization has predefined data related to the following balance definitions:

• Balance Categories (enabling of global categories)
• Balance Types
• Balance Dimensions and Usages (enabling of global dimensions)
• Defined Balances
• Balance Groups and Attributes