In Oracle Payroll, costing is the process of allocating payroll run costs to general ledger accounts. This process uses the calculated values from a payroll run, which are stored as run results. For elements created using a template, such as a voluntary deduction, a "Base" element is created for inputs, and a "Results" element is created to hold the final calculated amount. Since the costing process distributes the actual calculated deduction, the costing account information must be defined on the element eligibility record of the "Results" element.

B. Distributor element: This is not a standard element type generated by the voluntary deduction template for the purpose of holding primary costing information.

C. Base element: The base element is used to hold input values (e.g., the deduction amount per pay period) and does not store the final calculated run result that is subject to costing.

D. Calculator element: This is not a standard element type in this context. The payroll engine performs the calculations; a "Calculator" element is not where costing is configured.

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1. Oracle Cloud HCM: Implementing Payroll for Core HR (Document ID: F76329-06)

Chapter 6: Payroll Costing

Section: How Payroll Costing Works.

This section explains

"The costing process calculates the cost distributions for the net pay amount and for all the deductions that have costing enabled at the element links or element eligibility level." It emphasizes that costing is applied to the results of the payroll run. For a deduction

the calculated result is held by the "Results" element.

2. Oracle Cloud HCM: Using Global Payroll (Document ID: F76333-06)

Chapter 3: Elements

Section: Element Creation Features.

This chapter details how element templates work. It describes the creation of multiple related elements

including a base element for inputs and a results element (often named with a ASGRUN suffix) to hold the run result. The documentation clarifies that it is the run result that is processed by subsequent payroll flows

including costing.

3. Oracle Help Center (docs.oracle.com)

"Set Up Costing for an Element" (Task Guide).

This guide specifies the steps for configuring costing. It states

"You set up costing for an element on the Costing tab of the Element Eligibility page." It further clarifies that for elements that produce a result

you apply costing to the element that holds the result

not the input or base element.