Q. What are the mandatory modules for HR to implement SAP Payroll ?
A. PA / OM / Time Management (basic)
Q. What is the personnel subarea grouping for primary wage types used for?
A. You can use these groupings to specify which wage types may be entered for which personnel subareas.
Q. What is the employee subgroup grouping for primary wage types used for?
A. You can use these groupings to specify which wage types may be entered for which employee subgroups.
Q. Permissible check for wage type is performed for each
A. EE subgroup grouping and PSA grouping
Q. Which criteria determine payroll accounting areas?
A. The payroll accounting area is determined according to the HR country grouping, the employee group and the employee subgroup.
Q. Is there a way to define default values for the pay scale area and pay scale type?
A. Via TARIF feature. The return value must have the form xx/yy, when xx is the pay scale type, and yy the pay scale area.
Q. Is there a way to define default values for the pay scale group and pay scale level ?
A. Pay scale group and levels can only be defaulted through ABAP
development. There is no standard feature to default payscale group and
level.
A. Payroll constants are stored under tables T511K which can be accessed via SM30.
Q. Through which T-Code you are able to create a remuneration statement?
A. PC00_Mxx_CEDT (xx - denotes the molga for a country)
Q. What is the employee subgroup grouping for collective agreement provisions used for?
A. PC00_Mxx_CEDT (xx - denotes the molga for a country)
Q. What is the employee subgroup grouping for collective agreement provisions used for?
A. The collective agreement provisions grouping is required for indirect valuation of wage types in the Basic Pay infotype (0008).
Q. Can all wage types be entered into all Infotypes?
A. No. All wage types are not permissible for all infotypes (refer wage type groups concept). Wage types are permitted to be stored in payroll infotypes only if these are added to the wage type groups. Eg Basic Pay IT0008 has wage type group 0008.
Q. What does the input permissibility of a wage type depend upon?
A. Input permissibility of a wage type depends on the wage type grouping and wage type characteristics. The wage type characteristics are attributes of the wage type that determine as to what is permissible and not permissible, what are the maximum and minimum value limits , what are the units permissible, whether they are to be valuated directly (values entered) or indirectly (values as a reference to other wage type values).
| Q. How can you define default wage types for the Basic Pay Infotype? |
A.
The system can suggest a default wage type for basic pay (IT0008), to do this appropriate wage type must be included in a wage type model. Here you define the default wage types and the sequence how they should appear in the infotype Basic Pay and whether you can overwrite the defaulted wage type or not.
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Revise Default Wage Types
After setting wage type model, LGMST feature needs to be defined. Feature LGMST has two return values: firstly, the maximum number of wage types that can be entered in the Basic Pay infotype (IT0008), and secondly, the wage type model the system is to use, which was defined above.
To access feature LGMST use following SPRO path or transaction PE03.
SPRO: Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Enterprise Structure for Wage Type Model
Q. In which feature, default wage type is defined for Basic Pay Infotype?
A LGMST
Q. How does the system know when to trigger retroactive accounting for a particular employee?
A.Retroactive accounting recognition consists of four steps:
- If you edit an infotype that is relevant to retroactive accounting, the system enters the start date of the changed infotype record in the following fields of infotype 0003 Payroll Status:
- Earliest MD change (earliest master data change since last payroll run)
- MD chng.bonus (earliest payroll-relevant master data change (bonus)). This field is only displayed for specific country groupings, it is not displayed for all personnel numbers.
- During the next regular payroll run or correction run (off-cycle payroll type B), the system determines whether the date in the Earliest MD change and (if applicable) MD chng.bonus fields comes before the date in the Accounted to field.
- If this is the case, the system performs retroactive accounting. It starts with the payroll period in which the date entered in the Earliest MD change and MD chng.bonus fields occurs. The system recalculates all payroll periods that lie between the date in the Earliest MD change and MD chng.bonus fields and the date in the Accounted to field.
- The system deletes the date in the Earliest MD change and MD chng.bonus fields
Q. How is the earliest retroactive accounting date determined for an employee?
A. The system uses the following values to determine the retroactive accounting limit:
- For each payroll area, the system uses the earliest possible retroactive accounting period that is stored in the corresponding payroll control record
- For each employee, the system uses the earliest personal retroactive accounting date that is stored in the Payroll Status infotype (0003)
- For each employee, the system uses the hiring date of the employee The system uses these values to select the most recent date.
Q. What activities are possible when the payroll control record is set to “Released for Payroll”?
A. If you choose the function Release Payroll from the menu, you are prevented from changing infotype data records if such changes affect the past or present. This lock applies to the personnel numbers included in the payroll area concerned. Changes that affect the future are still permitted. You must execute this function in the menu before starting the payroll. If the status of the payroll control record was previously Exit Payroll, the Release Payroll function also has the effect of increasing the period in the payroll control record by 1.
Q. Can a posting run be deleted?
A. Yes It can be reversed before the Bank transfer.Once the transfer is done the payments need to be adjusted in the next payments.
Q. Where are payroll results stored?
A. Payroll results are stored in PCL2 cluster, which can be accessed using the transaction pc_payresult.
Q. Account assignment type characteristic used in SAP HR
A. The account assignment type of the symbolic account determines:
-The type of posting (for example, posting to expense accounts, debit posting, credit posting) and the process that the system uses in table T030 (Standard Account Table) to search for the assigned account in Accounting
-Which information the system should transfer to Accounting and from which table in the payroll result this information should be taken
Example: The wage types Basic pay and Overtime both represent personnel costs and should therefore be posted to expense accounts. You also want to assign these wage type amounts to Cost Accounting objects. Both wage types are dealt with in the same way as far as posting is concerned and can therefore be posted to the same symbolic account. You must specify the account assignment type C, since, in Accounting, there should be a posting to expense accounts and Cost Accounting should be provided with information.
Q. Where do you specify whether an employee is paid in cash or whether the money is transferred to a bank account?
A. IT 0009 (Bank Details )
Q. Is it possible to branch directly from the payroll log to master data and time data maintenance?
A. Yes. To some extent.
