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Payroll Post Notes: Over-Deducted Deduction?
This is one of those posts that may not apply to everyone right now, but you may need at some point in your Payroll career. Deductions can be set up for many reasons and can stop being withheld once they reach a specific amount. What happens if the deduction...
Payroll Post Notes: Creating Historical Entries
A common question we get during the year, especially end of year, is how to add historical calculation information. The need for the historical info can vary from new organizations configuring Payroll to tax withholding corrections. Regardless of why...
Seeing Double in a Query?
Duplicate query results is extremely frustrating, but are they really duplicates ? When a record appears more than once, it could be that the record meets the query criteria multiple times or the output includes one or more one-to-many fields . The good...
End the City Frustration!
No I'm sorry to say I don't have an answer to the gas price crisis, but I do have good news about city names. Do you have slightly different ways of spelling the same city in your database such as North Pleasantville, N Pleasantville, and N ....
Payroll Post Notes: Top Questions for July
Each month we keep track of the top Payroll questions you ask. Here is the list of the Payroll questions for July and June. July How to globally add a Pay Type, Benefit, Deduction, Attendance Record, Event, or Attendance plan to employees: BB164768 How...
Customize Columns
If you are frustrated by looking at columns on records and wishing there was a way to remove them, your wish has been granted. Well, it has been granted in some areas including the Activity tab of records, Student Billing Detail tab of payments, the Line...
Payroll Post Notes: Prepare for the Minimum Wage Increase
I got a hot tip, well actually a great suggestion from a reader, for a blog post to help prepare for the minimum wage increase on July 24, 2008. Since I always want to make my readers happy, here you go . The first thing we need to do is create a list...
Payroll Post Notes: Top Questions for June
Each month we keep track of the top Payroll questions you ask. Here is the list of the Payroll questions for June and May. June How to void checks: BB59007 How to convert to Payroll 7: BB155330 How to globally add a Pay Type, Benefit, Deduction, Attendance...
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...
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...
The Ledger Lowdown: Reuse Check Numbers
A common headache we all get from time to time stems from printing checks. Maybe you go through the process of printing checks to later realize that the check stock was not in the printer. Perhaps the checks show in the bank register but the checks did...
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...
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