You can use Customizing for Posting to Accounting to determine which wage types are posted, and to which Financial Accounting accounts the amount contained in these wage types should be posted. If you perform posting to Accounting, the wage types from the payroll results to be posted are posted to the assigned accounts. This automatic process is called account determination.

Accounts are determined in the following steps:

1. The system determines the assigned symbolic account from the wage type.
2. The assigned Financial Accounting account (G/L account, customer account or vendor account) is determined from the symbolic account.

The two-stage procedure is advantageous since Payroll is separated from the Accounting components by the "Symbolic Account" interface. If there are organizational changes in Accounting, the symbolic account assignment of the wage types remains unaffected. On the other hand, payroll changes do not necessarily cause changes to the account assignment settings in the Accounting components.

In Customizing for posting to Accounting, you can assign a G/L account to a symbolic account in the following ways:

• You assign a G/L account to a symbolic account.
• You assign various G/L accounts to a symbolic account, irrespective of the employee grouping for account determination, for example, you assign the G/L account Wages to the symbolic account Wages and salaries for industrial workers, and you assign the G/L account Salaries to the symbolic account Wages and salaries for salaried employees.