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Prepare Wage Type Overview

In this step, you create a list of all wage types in your enterprise that are relevant to posting. This list is used as the basis for setting up posting to accounting.

From the amounts determined by Payroll, expenses and payables are posted to Accounting and costs are posted to Controlling.

Wage types that are relevant to posting must therefore be grouped so that complete posting to accounting is possible. In SAP Payroll, the implementation ofPrimary wage types (for example, remuneration elements such as standard pay) and Secondary wage types (for example, the amount of a bank transfer) usually prevents wage types from being posted twice.

Example

An overview of all wage types might look like this:

Primary wage type	Significance for posting
Standard pay	Personnel expenses
Bonus	Personnel expenses
Overtime	Personnel expenses
...

Secondary wage type	Significance for posting
ER contribution SI	Expenses and payables
	(Double posting)
Bank transfer	Payables
Tax	Payables
EE contribution SI	Payables
Idle time compensation	Reposting expense
...

Example

The wage type Employer Social Insurance contribution is most commonly posted twice. In accounting, it represents both expenses and payables for the enterprise. As a result, the wage type is assigned both an expense account and a payables account.

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