Top 19 Peoplesoft Finance Interview Questions You Must Prepare 19.Mar.2024

  • PS_ITEM
  • PS_ITEM_ACTIVITY
  • PS_ITE DST
  • PS_PENDING_ITEM
  • PS_PENDING_DST
  • PS_GROUP_CONTROL
  • PS_DEPOSIT_CONTROL
  • PS_PAYMENT
  • PS_PAYMENT_ID_CUST
  • PS_PAYMENT_ID_ITEM

Use App Designer and Go Tools > Copy Project > To Database.

  • Template Record/Field
  • Template Section
  • Template Category Table
  • Template Creation

Payables Business process overview:

  • Create Vouchers and payments process using manual and automatic processes.
  • Country specific tax withholding.
  • Matching the vouchers with the purchase orders and receipts.
  • Post the vouchers.
  • Maintain vouchers throughout their life cycle.
  • Create drafts, single voucher payment, prepayments, and self-billed invoices.
  • Optionally, send electronic payments to PeopleSoft Financial Gateway.
  • Analyze accounts payable information using online inquiries, and by generating reports.
  • Archive accounts payable data.

A regulatory region is a region which has laws and regulations that are used by functionality in PeopleSoft HRMS. A lot of tractions are driven by regulatory requirements. These requirements include areas like ethnicity, disability, and health and safety.

Benefits of using regulatory region:

When driven by Regulatory Region, the regulatory codes, People Code edits, and set processing in the system can vary by country and for each traction.

System Check and EFT are two of the most common Payment Methods used by enterprises. Apart from these, PeopleSoft Payables also supports many other Payment Methods.

They are:

Most Common Payment Methods:

  • System Check
  • Electronic Funds Trfer — EFT

Other Payment Methods:

  • Manual Check
  • Draft Customer Initiated
  • Draft Customer EFT
  • Draft Vendor Initiated
  • Automated Clearing House — ACH
  • Direct Debit
  • Giro-EFT
  • Giro-Manual
  • Letter of Credit
  • Wire Trfer

Keys, Properties & Collections, Methods and Name.

Application Messaging is used by PeopleSoft applications to communicate with one another. For example, the Financials Applications which are based on People Tools can communicate with HRMS applications, which are based on People Tools, using Application Messaging.

To load vouchers into PeopleSoft, we first load them into the Voucher Staging tables and then run the Voucher Build to create Vouchers from the staged data.

  • PS_VCHR_HDR_STG;
  • PS_VCHR_LINE_STG;
  • PS_VCHR_DIST_STG;
  • PS_VCHR_HDR_QV;
  • PS_VCHR_LINE_QV;
  • PS_VCHR_DIST_QV;

These are two staging tables used to load data through voucher build process into main voucher tables.

  • PS_VOUCHER;
  • PS_VOUCHER_LINE;
  • PS_DISTRUB_LINE;

  • Seniority Pay Increases
  • Grade Advanced increases
  • Automatic step increases
  • Step increases using review bands
  • Amount increases
  • Percentage increases

Different organization relationships a person can have are:

  • Employee
  • Contingent worker
  • Person of Interest

  • Loading Pending items from Billing/External systems.
  • Entering Pending Recv items info into Pplsoft system and update the AR system with these data inputs (AR_UPDATE).
  • Entering any deposits recvd in the system and update the AR System (using AR_UPDATE).
  • Processing Refunds.
  • Worksheets (Payment/Maintenance/Trfer) for performing matching operations for inbound funds against outbound funds.
  • Predict Payments, Receive Payments through Lockboxes and update the AR system as items received. (AR_UPDATE).
  • Generate Accounting Entries for entries originated in PeopleSoft AR system / External system.

  • Create Vouchers and payments process using manual and automatic processes;
  • Matching the vouchers with the purchase orders and receipts;
  • Post the vouchers;
  • Maintain vouchers throughout their life cycle;
  • Create drafts, single voucher payment, prepayments, and self-billed invoices;
  • Optionally, send electronic payments to PeopleSoft
  • Financial Gateway;
  • Analyze accounts payable information using online;
  • inquiries, and by generating reports;

Yes, it’s possible. But it’s important to verify that the database version required by People Tools is the same as for the current People Tools x implementation.

This Process includes Procurement to Payment cycle.

  • Requisition
  • Purchase Order
  • Receipt
  • Voucher
  • Payment

Section, Step and Action.