Report entities

A report entity is the process level or company to which the distribution process level on an employee's time record reports for tax reporting purposes.

The distribution process level is the process level assigned to a time record. If you do not assign a process level to a time record, the process level defaults from the employee record.

The Payroll application determines the report entity as follows.

If the distribution process level is	The report entity is
An independent process level	The same as the distribution process level
A dependent process level in a tax reporting group with an independent head process level	The head process level of the tax reporting group
A dependent process level under the company	The company