Wage Expense Account

The expense account represents the posting account where you post the debit entry for salary and wage expense.

An expense distribution company, accounting unit, and account number is required at the company level.

The defaulting Payroll uses to find the wage expense account depends on whether or not the company uses positions for employees. You define how positions are used by the Payroll Application on Position Rules (PA06.1) in the Personnel Administration application. If you do not use the Personnel Administration application, Payroll follow the logic for defaulting without positions.

Payroll Distribution - Employees (PR23.1) overrides by percentage the normal distribution of wage for an employee or position. A value of Yes in the Payroll Distribution field on the time record indicates a payroll distribution override is defined for the selected employee/position and pay code. If you do not want to use the general ledger information defined on PR23.1, select No in the Payroll Distribution field.

If you select Yes in the Payroll Distribution field on the time record, the account information defined in Payroll Distribution - Employees (PR23.1) or Payroll Distribution - Positions (PR23.3) overrides the account information on the time record when you run Payroll Close (PR197).