About This Document Payroll Guide for Kuwait

Objectives

This guide will help you understand these concepts and their associated setup tasks:

Payroll concepts
Geographies and Addresses
Payroll objects
Elements, fast formulas, and balances
Payroll calculation components
Banking setup and payment methods
Security profile, auditing, and data validations

Audience

This guide provides practical end-to-end guidance for implementing payroll for Kuwait. To get started, you must have working knowledge of payroll basic principles, and be familiar with basic payroll terminology and legislative requirements for Kuwait. It is a good idea to consult these guides as well:

Implementing Global Human Resources guide to complete the related prerequisite tasks required for payroll implementation.
Oracle Applications Cloud Using Functional Setup Manager guide to have a detailed understanding of the Functional Setup Manager and the implementation tasks.

Before you start implementing the payroll application, here are a few must-haves:

Payroll license.
Complete the initial setup of the Oracle Fusion application.
Complete implementing Global Human Resources and the HR-specific tasks required for payroll implementation and processing. For example, setting up requisite jurisdictions for tax reporting.

While this guide is primarily intended for the implementation team, it can also be useful to you if you plan to run payroll processes after implementation.

Organization and Format

This guide provides step-by-step information to help you understand payroll concepts, implementation task order, and setup tasks necessary for you to implement payroll for Kuwait. This guide is a combination of the Global Payroll Implementation guide and Kuwait-specific information for implementing payroll for Kuwait. You only need this one guide for your implementation.

Specific information regarding the required tasks can be found in relevant sections of this document.