Salaries and Wages Inter-business Recharges Policy

Version 2.0 approved 7 June 2025

The Salaries and Wages Inter-business Recharges Policy (PDF 272KB) provides the mandatory requirements in relation to salaries and wages inter-business recharge (IB) journals to streamline processes across SA Health.

Applicability

This policy applies to all employees and contracted staff of SA Health; that is all employees and contracted staff of the Department for Health and Wellbeing (DHW), Local Health Networks (LHNs) including statewide services aligned with those Networks and SA Ambulance Service (SAAS).

Specifically, this policy applies to all employees and contract staff involved in processing the salaries and wages IB recharge journals as detailed in Appendix 1 - Salaries and Wages Inter-business Recharge Mandatory Instruction.

Out of scope

The following are excluded from the scope of this policy:

  • Recharges within the same business are processed as business journals.
  • Recoveries from/to entities outside of SA Health are processed through accounts receivable/payable.