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 non-Blackbaud products, such as Word or Excel, from...

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 original record; do it all at once using the Change...

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, in order to calculate payroll for an employee...

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. Purging, on the other hand, removes the check...

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 gross earnings. You can find information...

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 manual , also known as a data entry guide. The manual...

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 Act?: BB585656 Scheduled queues are not...

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 in running reports, queries, exports, and posts...

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 Rules , implemented in version 7.77, can help...

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. If you cancel the process at the wrong point it could...