Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
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1 Let's Get Started

• About this Guide
• Responsive User Experience Setup
  • Deep Links
  • Search Logic Profile Options for Client List of Values
  • Use Transaction Design Studio to Configure Field Displays
• Concepts to Understand
  • Date Effectivity Overview
  • How You Delete Physical Records from Date-Effective Objects
• Application Tools
  • Payroll Flows

2 Costing Setup

• Overview of Payroll Costing
• Costing Setup Prerequisites
  • Payroll Setup Tasks for Financials
  • Payroll Setup Tasks for Subledger Accounting
  • Payroll Setup Tasks to Transfer Costs to General Ledger
  • Payment Reconciliation Setup
  • Secure Costing of Elements and Costing for Persons
• How Payroll Costing Components Integrate with Other Applications
• Costing Structure and Setup
  • Payroll Cost Allocation Key Flexfield Structure
  • Payroll Cost Allocation Key Flexfield Setup
  • Improve Payroll Costing Process Performance
  • Costing Cross-Validation Rules
• Cost Accounts
  • Payroll Setup for Costing Accounts
  • Element Costing Options
• Cost Hierarchy
• Distributed Costing
  • Set Up Distributed Costing
  • Set Up Distributed Costing for an Element
  • How Distributed Costing Is Calculated
  • Calculate Distributed Costing Example
• Person Costing
  • Set Up Person Level Costing
  • Person Costing Setup Example
• Costing Examples
  • Regular Element with Costing Type of Costed Example
  • Retroactive Element with Costing Type of Costed Example
  • Regular Element with Costing Type of Fixed Example
  • Retroactive Element with Costing Type of Fixed Example
  • Regular Element with Costing Type of Distributed Examples
  • Retroactive Element with Costing Type of Distributed Examples
  • Distributed Costing with a Negative Result Distribution Group Member Example
  • Distributed Costing with a Zero Sum Result Retroactive Distribution Group

3 Cost Allocation

• Allocate Costs to Accounts
• Allocate Costs to Several Accounts
• Allocating Department Costs to Different Accounts Examples

4 Cost Distributions

• Calculate Cost Distributions
• Cost Run Results
  • Payroll Processes that Generate Costing Results
  • Payroll Process that Reverses the Subledger Accounting
  • How Payroll Cost Results are Calculated
  • View Run Results with Element Entry Result Identifier
  • Calculate Partial Period Accruals
    • Partial Period Accruals
  • View and Verify Payroll Run Results
  • Payroll Costing Results Report
• FAQs for Cost Run Results
  • Why do payroll costing results differ for employees with the same position in the same department?

5 Correct Costing

• Correct Costing for Payroll Run Results
• Retroactive Costing
• Adjust Payroll Costs
• Corrective Actions for Payroll Costing Results
• FAQs for Correct Costing
  • When do I cost a payroll balance adjustment?
  • Can I correct payroll costing results from the Person Results page?
  • Can I view an audit trail of corrections for payroll costing results?
  • How can I revise the payroll costing information for a specified period of time?
  • Why can't I find my cost adjustment in the flow search results?

6 Costing and Reconciling Payments

• Cost Payroll Payments
• Reconcile Payroll Payments

7 Distribute Accounting

• Distribute Payroll Accounting
• Create Accounting Results
• Review Journal Entries

8 FAQs

• Which Payroll Actions Can Be Costed?
• What's the difference between Create Draft and Create Final Accounting for Payroll?
• What's the difference between allocating and distributing costs?
• How can I use segment values from element eligibility of distribution group members in distributed costing when there is a segment value populated at distributed element eligibility level?
• How can I use normal elements for a retroactive element to distribute costing?
• How can I hide person details in SLA and drill down costing results?
• Where should I implement cross-validation rules?