Bonus Accounting
Use
This function enables you to make a special payment to an employee for a special occasion or for special performance.
An employee is to receive a bonus for outstanding sales performance.
You want to give your employees an end-of-year bonus.
It is advisable to conduct bonus accounting from the Off-Cycle Workbench if you want to pay a bonus to individual employees. It is easier to create mass bonus payments using batch input in the Additional Payment Off-Cycle infotype (0267). For more information, see Additional Payment Off-Cycle (Infotype 0267).
Integration
The system creates a record in the Additional Payment Off-Cycle infotype (0267) for each wage type that you enter in bonus accounting. This infotype record contains information on:
· Wage type
· Bonus payment amount
· Reason for off-cycle payroll
· Payroll identifier
The payroll identifier is a sequential number allocated by the system to differentiate between several bonus payments or absence payments made on the same day. This differentiation is necessary, since both of these off-cycle payroll runs belong to the same payroll type. The first bonus accounting run or absence payment has the payroll identifier 0.
Prerequisites
The standard system already contains an off-cycle reason for bonus payments. In Customizing for Payroll, you can, if required, set up one or several off-cycle reasons for bonus accounting. Choose Off-Cycle Activities ®Set Up Off-Cycle Reasons. You must assign the reason to the Category Bonus.
Under Off-Cycle Activities ® Define Default Values for Wage Types in Customizing for Payroll, you have, if required, defined a wage type that the system proposes when you process a bonus.
Features
If you have defined default values for wage types in Customizing and you select the relevant off-cycle reason in the Off-Cycle Workbench, the system proposes a wage type for bonus accounting in the group header Create Payments. You can overwrite the default value that is proposed.