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Employee Grouping and Symbolic Accounts

Human Resources wage types are not assigned directly to accounts in Accounting (FI). In the first instance, they are assigned to symbolic accounts. Account determination for Posting to Accounting is a two-step procecure. For this reason, changes to the chart of accounts do not affect wage type coding:

1. In the Payroll component, a symbolic account is assigned to a wage type. Symbolic accounts group wage types that are to be treated similarly for the purposes of posting.
2. The symbolic account is assigned to an account in Accounting (G/L account, customer account, vendor account).

The

employee grouping for account determination is used in assigning symbolic accounts to accounts in Accounting . This makes it possible, for example, for specific expenses in Payroll to be posted to a single symbolic account, but distributed to various accounts in Accounting. This process is determined in line with the employee's characteristics as defined in the Workplace Basic Pay (WPBP) table.

Example

In one enterprise, the wage type Wage is defined for the employee grouping hourly paid earners and the wage type Salary is defined for Salaried employees . The wage type Overtime is valid for both employee groupings.

WT Employee groupg Symb. Acc FI Acc
Wage Hrly wge earnrs Wages & sal. Wages
Overtime Hourly wage earner Overtime Overt, HrlyWgEarnr
Salary Salaried EE Wages & sal.. Salaries
Overtime Salaried EE Overtime. Overtime, SalariedEE