Understanding Manual Payments

When you enter manual payments for Japanese payees, all calculations should be calculated outside the system and then entered. Observe the following guidelines when entering manual payments:

• Selecting the Period (Calendar) Paid and Payment Date on the Period Calendar tab of the Manual Payments page.

  The selection of the period paid and the payment date need to be considered carefully. When selecting the period paid, you should select the previous finalized calendar or the current open calendar. The selection of the payment date directly affects how elements are accumulated. For example, if you have an accumulator that accrues based on period end date, the payment date may not update the accumulator balances at the right time.

• Selecting processing controls on the Manual Payments page.

  The Period Begin Date and Period End Date should be supplied by default after you select Period (Calendar) Paid. These dates should not be changed because the delivered Japanese rules have been designed to calculate using whole periods and may not automatically segment if a partial period is entered.

  The run type comes from Period (Calendar) Paid and the defaults should be used. To ensure that the payee's manual payment is processed by the system, the Allow Duplicates check box must be selected on the run type; otherwise, the payee may not be processed again if the system detects that the payee has already been processed in the period.

  Stop Regular Resolution enables you to stop the resolution of all elements on the process list except the elements that are entered into the manual payment. If you decide to allow regular resolution, an analysis would need to be performed to understand the impact on your supporting elements.

  If using the Limited Element Set, you need to ensure that all elements are calculated independently of pre- or post-processing formulas, because these do not resolve during off-cycle processing.