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Posting Errors? Check Your Post Dates
If your fiscal year ended June 30, you may suddenly start receiving errors such as Period Closed or Period Not Found when posting to General Ledger. These errors happen when transactions post to a hard-closed, soft-closed, or an undefined fiscal year...
Make It Feel Like Home
Would you like The Financial Edge to work more for you as a user? You can define options and preferences to customize the look of screens and establish a wide variety of default values. These settings not only make your workday easier but more efficient...
Payroll Post Notes Time Saver: Globally Add Records to Employees
The top question asked last month was how to globally add compensation types, attendance information, and events. Since a lot of people are asking this question, I thought it would be a good topic to cover. Globally adding records is a great way to save...
Where's Waldo's Transaction?
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're looking for a transaction but it's missing from the Activity tab of the record? You know the charge exists because you're the one that added it or you've seen it before, but where...
Payroll Post Notes: Attendance Arithmetic (Part 6 of 6)
Welcome to the final installment of the Attendance Arithmetic series. Let's talk about start of cycle attendance. Start of cycle attendance accrues all attendance on the effective date of the attendance plan. For example, David Jones started January...
Payroll Post Notes: Attendance Arithmetic (Part 5 of 6)
Welcome to part five of the Attendance Arithmetic series, let's talk about by hours worked attendance. To manually calculate the accrual: Determine the number of hours worked since the start of the attendance year. Find the number of cycle hours in...
Payroll Post Notes: Attendance Arithmetic (Part 4 of 6)
Welcome to part four of the Attendance Arithmetic series, let's talk about by pay period attendance. To manually calculate the accrual: Determine the last completed period before the accrue through date. Find the total number of pay periods in the...
Payroll Post Notes: Top Questions for May
Each month we keep track of the top Payroll questions you ask. Here is the list of the Payroll questions for May and April. I recommend you also review The Ledger Lowdown top question list for general FE or non module specific questions. May How to globally...
Payroll Post Notes: Attendance Arithmetic (Part 3 of 6)
In part 3 of the Attendance Arithmetic series, let's talk about monthly attendance. To manually calculate the accrual: Determine the number of months from the plan effective date up to and including the last day of the previous month. Divide the number...
Payroll Post Notes: Can't Find State and Federal Tax Reports?
Are you trying to run your Federal I-9 form or the State New Hire Reports and can't find the State and Federal Tax Report option in Mail? Don't worry; it is probably your security rights. Since this report can contain personal information, such...
Payroll Post Notes: Attendance Arithmetic (Part 2 of 6)
Welcome to part 2 of Attendance Arithmetic. This time, let's review calculating weekly attendance. Here are the steps for the manual calculation: Determine the number of days from the plan effective date through the last Saturday before the attendance...
Payroll Post Notes: Attendance Arithmetic (Part 1 of 6)
Do you ever wonder how Payroll calculates employee attendance accrual? If so, make sure you check out each of the six Attendance Arithmetic posts. Each will cover how to manually calculate the following accrual methods: Daily Weekly Monthly By pay period...
Payroll Post Notes: Top Questions for April
Hey payroll blog readers! I didn't want you guys to be left out of the top questions asked, so I am going to start listing the top 7 Payroll questions for the last two months with a link to the Knowledgebase solution. Unlike The Ledger Lowdown top...
Payroll Post Notes: One-Time Calculations
Hello blog readers! A common question we get is how to create a one-time payroll calculation, so I thought this would be a good topic to talk about. The reason for needing the one-time calculation can vary from payroll corrections to bonuses , but the...
Payroll Post Notes: Track Checklist Items
Hey blog readers. There's a cool feature in Configuration I wanted to share with you today. When you hire a new employee they probably have to go through the employee orientation to fill out forms, get ID badges, departmental intros, and training...
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