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Make it Feel Like Home: The FE Home Page
Do you run the same saved reports and queries daily, weekly, or monthly? Save yourself time by adding links to them on your Home page. This simple process will help streamline your regular tasks by accessing common FE reports and queries, websites, or...
Payroll Post Notes: Update Compensation Types with Ease
Do you have employees receiving pay raises or do you need to update benefits and deductions? Don't go through the process of first changing the existing record to inactive and then adding a new record, trying to remember the options selected on the...
Payroll Post Notes:Track Rehires' Length of Service
Do you have students that only work for you during the school year? Whatever the reason for rehiring the employee, make sure the rehire event is associated with a hire event. This allows you to accurately track the employee’s length of employment. Remember...
To Void or Purge...That is the Question
It's inevitable, no matter how careful you are, at some point you'll have to correct a check. The question is should you void or purge. What's the difference? Well, voiding cancels the check, leaving it available to view in the bank register...
Payroll Post Notes: Got Fringe Benefits?
Many organizations provide employees with a company car, discounts on airline tickets, or memberships to exclusive country clubs and other social groups. A number of these perks, called non-cash fringe benefits by the IRS, must be included in the employee's...
Improve Your Data's Quality and Consistency
A list of procedures and rules can improve your data's consistency and quality, and save you time and effort when entering data, preparing reports, and reconciling. I recommend compiling the procedures and rules to create a policies and procedures...
Payroll Post Notes: Top Questions for May '09
Each month we keep track of the top Payroll questions you ask. Here are the top questions for May and April. May How to troubleshoot performance issues: BB8626 When will Payroll be updated to reflect the tax provisions of The American Recovery and Reinvestment...
Meet Ms. Queue
Do you run the same reports and queries everyday or every week? Would you like to hire an assistant to just run these reports so you can focus on more important things? FE has your assistant waiting. Please meet Ms. Accounting Queue: Ms. Queue is proficient...
Reconciliation Recommendations
At some point we all need to perform the dreaded reconciliation process. It can go smoothly, especially if you reconcile on a regular basis, or can be a headache if you don't reconcile regularly and have inconsistent data entry. The Transaction Business...
Is it Okay to Cancel Out of Posting, Copying, or Reversing a Batch?
Do you ever notice your workstation task manager shows The Financial Edge is not responding? Just because it shows not responding on your workstation doesn't mean that FE has stopped working. Many times the process is still running on the server....
Payroll Post Notes: Get Your Calculation Information Here
Do you need to report on employee 403(b) deductions and their employer match or ever wonder how much you pay out for a specific pay type? With the Compensation and Deductions Register, there is no need to wonder...you can get the totals quickly and easily...
Got Backup?
Natural disasters, power outages, and hardware and network failures... Oh My! These things can happen at any time and could lead to unrecoverable data loss. Losing just one day's worth of data can be devastating to any organization, but if you back...
Payroll Post Notes: Top Questions for April '09
Each month we keep track of the top Payroll questions you ask. Here are the top questions for April and March. April When will Payroll be updated to reflect the tax provisions of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?: BB585656 How to add or update...
Payroll Post Notes: One-Time Calculations
Every couple of months we see a spike in calls about how to create a one-time check. OK so the question is not "How do I print a one-time check," it usually has to do with paying employees a bonus, reimbursement for expenses, or paying them...
Need to Void a Check?
This is a quickie but goodie for all of you that need or may need to void a check. There are an unlimited number of reasons why you may need to void a check, including the check stock was not in the printer, the printer was not turned on, the checks printed...
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