Begin Payroll Period BPE (07) / End Payroll Period EPE (08)

Definition

The individual payroll periods in the payroll run are listed within the personnel number blocks. These block begin with the BPE operator and end with the EPE operator.

The following graphic displays how the operators begin payroll period and end payroll period are represented schematically:

The begin payroll period operator indicates the beginning of a payroll period.

No.

Operand

Length

Type

Example

1

Start date of payroll period

8

Date

19990101

2

End date of payroll period

8

Date

19990131

3

Retroactive accounting indicators

0=no RA period

1=RA period

1

Character

1

4

Payroll type

1

Character

A: bonus accounting

5

Payroll ID

1

Character

1 to make distinction between several special payroll runs

6

Payroll area

2

Character

A1

7

Period modifier

2

Numeric

01

8

For-period

6

Character

199901

9

Sequence number for cluster IF

9

Numeric

00001

10

Sequence number, payroll result

5

Numeric

00001

The end payroll period operator closes the begin payroll period operator. This operator has no operands. It indicates that a payroll period has been processed.