Counting rule: is a rule for counting attendance and absences and they are used to determine payroll days and hours of an attendance and absence of an employee.
Counting classes are used in Wage Type Valuation &
Absence counting. These are assigned to each period work schedule. Suppose
a group of employees are coming in night shifts and another group is coming
in general shifts. We can assign counting classes to these groups for differentiating
them for any payments.
Counting classes are forming buckets to collect paid
& unpaid absences separately.
Counting classes are used in order to form "buckets" to valuate paid and unpaid absences:
1. For factoring to reduce salaries for unpaid absences
In the standard SAP R/3 System, all counting classes that contain unpaid absences are processed together for factoring. A prerequisite of factoring is that you have assigned the paid absences to at least one counting class.
This means that you should not collect unpaid absences in more than one counting class if you use standard factoring (schema xAL0), otherwise the absences would be valuated twice.
If you want to form several counting classes for unpaid absences, you must specify explicitly which counting classes should be taken into account in factoring.
2. To generate statistics and for cost accounting
You can collect absence times in the counting classes in order to fill wage types and evaluate the cumulated values for cost accounting or statistical purposes.
You can access the counting classes using operation NUM.
Both paid and unpaid absences are usually collected in one counting class. The following rule applies to the further course of payroll: Paid counting classes are queried in operations APnn, and unpaid counting classes in operations AUnn.
Example
1. An employee with a fixed salary takes unpaid leave. The number of unpaid absence hours must be calculated before a reduction in salary can be determined. You therefore specify a counting class which is 100% unpaid for the absence valuation rule unpaid leave.
2. You want to find out what sort of costs are incurred for a paid period of incapacity to work. You therefore assign the absence valuation rule Sickness/Cure a counting class in which the absence times are 100% paid.
3. You want to collect absences on public holidays in one counting class, and absences on workdays in another.
