Payroll Administration

SAP HR
Pay Roll
Interview Questions and Answers

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1.

What are the four components of the payroll

procedure?
Gross computation
Determining deductions
Calculating Net
Generating payments and documents

2.

List some components of gross pay.

Base pay
Overtime
Leave
Bonuses
Retroactive pay
Pro-rated pay
Shift earnings
Non-cash payments

3.

List some benefits and deductions

Savings,
Medical plans,
Loans,

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Garnishments,
Union dues,
Charity
4.

What function does BSI play in SAP HR Payroll?

BSI is a third party vendor located in Atlanta, GA.
They have developed a stand-alone system that
processes taxes for payroll systems through an
interface.

5.

What do wage types do in payroll processing?

Assign employee payments and deductions;
Control payroll programs with a high degree of
flexibility;
Perform integrity checks through use restrictions;
Indicate whether it is a payment or a deduction.

6.

List the three general payroll infotypes.

Infotype 0008, Basic Pay;
Infotype 0014, Recurring Payments and Deductions;
Infotype 0015, Additional Payments

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7.

What are the main integration points between HR

Payroll and other SAP modules?
Benefits, FI/CO, Time Management, and Travel
Expenses

8.

What five objects make up the payroll corporate

structure?
Personnel area
Personnel sub-area
Employee groups
Employee subgroups
Employee subgroup groupings

9.

What three roles do the employee subgroup groupings

perform in payroll processing?
Assign employees to common personnel accounting
rules.
Assign employees to collective agreement provisions.
Assign default wage types to employees.

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10. How are pay scale types and pay scale areas used in
SAP?
Payscale types define the sector of industry for which
the collective agreement is valid.
Payscale areas define the geographic area.

11.

What is the purpose of a period modifier?

The period modifier defines the period in which payroll
accounting is conducted, i.e. monthly, etc.

12.

What function does a payroll accounting area serve?

Groups together like employees for the payroll run.
Infotype 0001 (Organizational Assignment) is used to
assign payroll areas.
When the payroll runs it will select all employees that
have been assigned to a payroll area.

13. What purpose does the ABKRS feature perform in the

Payroll submodule?
It defaults employees payroll accounting area based
on country modifier (MOLGA) and employee subgroup
(PERSK).

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14.

What is the name of SAPs payroll driver program?

RPCALCX0 where the X represents the country
specifier.

15. What three purposes does the payroll schema

perform?
Gross and net calculation of pay;
The blueprint for RPCALCX0;
References personnel calculation rules and wage
type information.

16. TRUE/FALSE: Employee records are locked during a

payroll simulation.
FALSE

17. When is the control records current payroll run

incremented by one?
When payroll is released for a payroll accounting area,
the payroll should have been exited prior to this
release.

18. TRUE/FALSE: The user should exit payroll and make

corrections to master and time data if employees are
rejected during the payroll run.

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FALSE. Set to corrections and fix within module so
counter is not advanced again.
19. What is the program name to transfer the payroll file
to FI/CO?
RPCIPO00

20.

List and describe the three ways to valuate wage types.

Indirect - assigned based on the persons
assignment indicator and valuation table.
Direct - assigned manually in infotype 0008, Basic
pay.
Payroll Program - determined by payroll program
based on specific time data.

21.

What is the table that stores wage types?

T512W

22. What purpose does the LGMST feature perform in the

Payroll submodule?
Assigns default wage types based on country modifier
(MOLGA), employee group (PERSG) and employee
subgroup (PERSK).

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23.

List the steps to the payroll accounting run.

Run payroll;
Create statement;
Payment of funds;
Subsequent payroll period activities; and
Period unrelated activities

24. What are the responsibilities of the payroll control

record?
Define current payroll period.
Locking master and time data.
Defining earliest retroactive accounting dates.
25.

Define retroactive accounting.

The process of accounting for changes in personnel
master records affecting previous payroll periods.

26.

List four of the subsequent payroll period activities.

Payroll results evaluation
Payroll transfer to FI/CO
Payroll Account

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27.

What is the role of a cost center in payroll accounting?

They enable more detailed cost information for an
organization.

28. Which infotype is used to allocate personnel costs to

multiple cost centers?
Infotype 0027, Cost Distribution
29. List data which FI/CO must coordinate with HR for
successful integration?
Creation of organizational accounting structure.
Creation of GL accounts.
Determination of automatic account assignments.
Determination of related primary cost elements.
Master cost center designation in infotype 0001,
Organizational assignment.
Cost centers specified in infotype 0027, Cost
Distribution.
Activity allocations and cost distributions in
infotype 2002, Time
Management.
Clearing cost centers defined for RPCIPO00.

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Fixed cost centers defined for RPCIPO00.

30. Which schema is required to evaluate the payroll

results?
X500 where X represents the country specific
identifier.

31. What function does RPCIPO00 serve in payroll

accounting?
It actually transfers the HR_CALC payroll file to
FI/CO.

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SAP HR
Pay Roll
Interview Questions and Answers

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