CenterPoint^® Payroll - Payroll General Preference

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This preference gives you options for setting the number of decimal places to use for hours, rate, pieces, and tax percentages. This preference determines how CenterPoint will post payroll transactions to your General Ledger. Payroll transactions can post to the General Ledger in either Detail (employee detail for each check) or in Summary (no check detail). Additionally, it allows you to set the way a pay run is validated if a"management detail" (Profit Center/Department, Production Center, Project, Production Year/Tracking Field 1, or Production Series/Tracking Field 2) is missing during processing and it allows you to skip the "management detail" pay run validation preference set to Required for an earning using an Account Distribution.

Select File > Preferences > Payroll >General.
Click the Database tab. Under Decimal places, set the number of decimal places for hours, rates, pieces, and tax percentages.
Under General Ledger Posting, determine how you want to post payroll transactions to your General Ledger. Payroll transactions can post to the General Ledger in either Detail (employee detail for each check) or in Summary (no check detail).
Under Pay Run Validation:
- In one of the "management detail" (Profit Center/Department, Production Center, Project, Production Year/Tracking Field 1, or Production Series/Tracking Field 2) box, select Required if you want to require that a "management detail" be entered on all pay run earning lines before the pay run be processed or select Warn If Missing if you want to be warned if a "management detail" is missing from a pay run earning line but continue to process the pay run. If you do not want to validate that a "management detail" was entered on pay run earning lines, leave the setting as Not Required.
- In the Skip Earnings Using an Account Distribution box, select Yes to skip the "management detail" pay run validation preference set to Required for an earning using an Account Distribution.
Under Calculated Overtime, in the Exclude Zero Rate Earnings from Average Rate Calculation box, determine if the average rate used for overtime calculations includes/excludes earnings that have no rate.
- When the preference is set to Yes, if there are three overtime earnings with amounts of $120, $120 and $0 and hours of 8, 8, and 8. The Average Rate on all three overtime earnings will be $120 + $120 /8 + 8 = $15.00. The 8 hours for the overtime earning with an amount of $0 is excluded from the calculation of the average rate.
- When the preference is not set or set to No, if there are three overtime earnings with amounts of $120, $120, and $0 and hours of 8, 8, and 8. The Average Rate on all three overtime earnings will be $120 + $120 + $0 / 8 + 8 + 8 = $10. The 8 hours for the overtime earning with an amount of $0 will not be excluded from the calculation of the average rate.

CenterPoint® Payroll - Payroll General Preference

CenterPoint^® Payroll - Payroll General Preference