Example: Posting-Relevant Information in the Payroll Result (SAP Library

Example: Posting-Relevant Information in the Payroll Result

The following basic conditions apply for an employee:

Your employee is assigned to the Central Development master cost center
The basic pay is 5,000.00
From January 01 – January 15, the employee works for the Product Planning cost center for 50% of the time and for the master cost center for 50% of the time.
From January 16 - January 31, your employee works for the Sales cost center (30%) and for the Quality assurance cost center (70%).
On January 16, your employee receives a one-off payment of 100.00 from the Training cost center.

This affects the payroll results for the payroll month of January as follows:

Work Center / Basic Pay Table (WPBP)

WPBP Partial Period	From - To	Company Code	Master Cost Center
01	01.01-15.01.	0001	Central development
02	16.01-31.01.	0001	Central development

Results Table (RT)

Wage type	WPBP Partial Period	Cost Accounting	Amount
Monthly salary (M020)	01		2,400.00
Monthly salary (M020)	02		2,600.00
One-off payment (M110)	02	0001	100.00
Bank transfer (/559)			5,100

Cost Distribution Table (C0)

WPBP Partial Period	SeqNr	Company Code	Cost Center	Percent
01	01	0001	Product planning	50
02	01	0001	Sales and distribution	30
02	02	0001	Quality assurance	70

Table of Cost Distribution from Different Infotypes (C1)

Cost Accounting	Company codes	Cost center
0001	0001	Training

This information in the payroll results tables is evaluated by the Posting to Accounting component as follows:

Posting Wage Type Monthly Salary (M020) for WPBP Partial Period 01:

The system reads the Monthly Salary wage type (M020) for work center 01 from the results table (RT).

The system reads the posting characteristics for the wage type in Customizing and identifies that this wage type is to be posted to an expense account.

The system checks whether there is an entry for this wage type in the Cost Distribution from Different Infotypes table (C1). This is not the case.

The system checks whether the entry for this wage type in the results table (RT) refers to a partial period in the Work Center Basic Pay table (WPBP) and identifies the partial period January 01 – January 15.

The system checks whether cost distribution has been specified in the Cost Distribution table (C0) for this partial period and identifies a distribution of 50% to the Product Planning cost center.

The system posts 50% of the wage type amount to this cost center (1,200 to the Product Planning cost center).

The system checks whether the wage type amount has been distributed at 100%. This is not the case. For this reason, the system posts the remaining amount (50% = 1,200) to the master cost center for the employee (Central Development). The wage type amount is then completely posted.

Posting Wage Type Monthly Salary (M020) for WPBP Partial Period 02:

The system reads the Monthly Salary wage type (M020) for work center 02 from the results table (RT).

The system reads the posting characteristics for the wage type in Customizing and identifies that this wage type is to be posted to an expense account.

The system checks whether there is an entry for this wage type in the Cost Distribution from Different Infotypes table (C1). This is not the case.

The system checks whether cost distribution has been specified in the Cost Distribution table (C0) for this partial period and identifies a distribution of 30 % to the Quality Assurance cost center.

The system posts the wage type amount, which is distributed on a percentage basis, to the cost centers (780 to the Product Planning cost center and 1,820 to the Quality Assurance cost center).

The system checks whether the wage type amount has been distributed at 100%. This is the case. The wage type amount is then completely posted.

Posting the One-Off Payment Wage Type (M110):

The system reads the One-Off Payment wage type (M110) from the results table (RT).

The system reads the posting characteristics for the wage type in Customizing and identifies that this wage type is to be posted to an expense account.

The system checks whether an entry for this wage type exists in the Cost Distribution from Different Infotypes table (C1) and identifies that the wage type amount is to be posted to the Training cost center.

The system posts the wage type amount to the cost center.

Posting Bank Transfer Wage Type (/559)

The system reads the Bank Transfer wage type (/559) from the results table (RT).

The system reads the posting characteristics for the wage type in Customizing and identifies that this wage type is to be posted to a balance sheet account.

The system checks whether the entry for this wage type in the results table (RT) refers to a partial period in the Work Center Basic Pay table (WPBP). This is not the case. The system chooses the last partial period in the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) (16.01 – 31.01).

The system reads the company code 0001 from the partial period for the Work Center/Basic Pay table (WPBP) and posts the wage type amount to this company code.

Posting Documents

The system creates the following posting document for the described postings:

Company code 0001

G/L account	Cost Center	Debit	Credit
Salaries	Product planning	1,200.00
Salaries	Central development	1,200.00
Salaries	Sales and distribution	780.00
Salaries	Quality assurance	1820.00
Salaries	Training	100.00
Wages and salaries to be paid			5,100.00