Offset Account for Payroll Relationship Level Elements using Assignment Attributes

You can now create costing eligibility rules for payroll relationship level elements based on the assignment details of the employee. This allows you to define the offset account for payroll relationship elements based on employee information such as Department, Job, Position, and People Group. For example, you can now create costing eligibility rules that will have a different offset account for payroll relationship elements, such as Federal Income Tax, to the Natural Account 90001 for employees in Department A and 90002 for employees in Department B. In the costing hierarchy, the new offset account is above the regular offset account of element eligibility.

This introduction of a new offset account in the costing hierarchy also requires changes for retroactive distributed elements to consider costing eligibility on assignment attributes of retroactive element.

These costing hierarchy changes are controlled using the process configuration parameter Date used to enable element eligibility hierarchy changes. Earliest date used by the costing process to use the hierarchy changes related to costing eligibility on assignment attributes. Format: YYYY/MM/DD. Default value: 2025/06/01. Any costing processes that are submitted on or after the default date uses the new costing hierarchy. If you don't want to use this new hierarchy changes from this default date or want to defer it completely, you can set the parameter value to any desired future date, such as 12/31/4712.

Note: This offset account feature is available for payroll relationship level elements only.

Ability to create and define the offset account of payroll relationship level elements using assignment attributes, such as Department, Job, Position etc., and use in the costing process.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

In order to use the new costing eligibility functionality, you must:

1. Create the regular element eligibility and create the costing information using the costing type of Distributed
2. Select the Costing Eligibility on Assignment Attributes node and the Create Costing by Assignment Attributes action to enable the assignment attributes, such as Department, Job and Position for Payroll Relationship level elements
3. Create the different cost codes based on the above attributes

Note: The offset information entered will take precedence over the offset information that you created using Distributed Costing in regular costing eligibility.

Key Resources

For more additional information, please refer to the following in Oracle Help Center:

• Administering Global Payroll Costing