- Do we need any other AccountPro modules to run
the payroll program ... ?
- Do we need the Multi-rate add-on if we have
multiple pay rates or more than 1 employee ... ?
- Do we need the multi-rate
add-on module for an employee to have several rates within a pay period ... ?
- What is an Earning Definition (Earning ID)
... ?
- What is a Deduction Definition (Deduction
ID) ... ?
- What are Compulsary Payroll Deductions ... ?
- What is an Employee ID ... ?
- Does the program print paystubs ... ?
- What is Job Costing ... ?
- What is stand alone construction cost tracking
software ... ?
- What is Distribution to Job Phases ...
?
- What is unionized payroll ... ?
- Why Modular Software ... ?
- What are the System Requirements ... ?
- No other modules are required to run the program, calculate compulsary deductions,
user defined deductions, contributions and print Payroll cheques.
- No other modules are required to define and use as many pay-rates (see earning
definitions below) as required in your business.
- An earning definition defines, for example, details such as, Regular Wages,
Overtime Wages, Bonus, Commission, Mileage, Living out Allowance, Piece Work,
etc.
- An unlimited number of earning definitions may be defined. Earning types may be
defined, for example, as Regular Wages, Overtime Wages, Bonus, Commission,
Mileage, Living out Allowance, Piece Work, etc.
- Overtime may be calculated at one and one half times the regular wage rate, two times the regular wage rate, or whatever
multiplyer is required. You may predefine as many overtime definitions (IDs) as
needed.
- Earning definitions may be specified with respect to taxability, active status,
contribute to compulsary deductions, contribute to calculation of "Other Deductions",
such as, for example, Union Dues, all through user specified Yes/No options.
- Indicate whether or not the earnings contribute to Vacation Pay, Holiday Pay,
Sick Pay, etc.
- By establishing any number of earnings definitions and assigning an earnings definition
(ID) to an employee as a default earnings id, the person entering payroll does not
have to be concerned about any of the details of rates, or if the earning contributes
to the calculation of witholdings, etc.
- Furthermore - the earning definition details onle has to establised once and can
be assigned to any employee, or - selected in the payroll entry (transactions) menu,
thereby overriding any defaults established for the employee.
- Earning definitions (IDs) come in very handy when and employee does various tasks
withing a pay period and therefor is subject to different rates and or subject to
different criteria for income tax deductions.
- Deduction definitions keep employee deductions up-to-date in-one-place, saving
you from having to change individual employee records every time deductions change.
- Establish any number of payroll and union deduction definitions.
- If used as a construction payroll module, contactors will find the automatic
deduction capabilities support an unlimited number of deductions within a pay period.
- Deduction definitions may specify:
- Deductions for straight time
- Deductions for overtime
- Specified tax reductions
- Subject to union dues calculations
- Method of deduction calculation:
- Fixed amount per pay period
- Percentage of specified type of earnings
- Combination of Fixed and Percentage
- Paid by
- Employee
- Employer
- Specified percentage Employee/Employer
- Specify Distribution to General Ledger accounts
- Compulsary Deductions are mandatory payroll deductions or withholdings the employer must deduct from a payroll cheque as required by Federal, State, Territory or Local laws, For example (always consult Australian Tax Office for details):
- Federal Personal Income taxes
- State Personal Income taxes
- Superannuation taxes
- Medicare
- WorkCover Industry Insurance Premiums
- Various [possible local withholdings (such as county, city, and school district taxes)
- An Employee ID (Identity) is used to identify the employee's name. An employee id may consist
of numbers and or letters (alphanumeric). For example,
- AJC is an employee id.
- 10553 is an employee id.
- A-101 is an employee id.
- 1015-AM is an employee id.
- 101-200-34 is an employee id.
- An Employee ID may have up to 8 alphanumeric characters.
- Using an Employee ID in AccountPro modules make for quicker entry and or section
of employees and is less prone to data entry errors.
- Yes, the Payroll program automatically creates and prints a cheque paystub for each employee
when Cheques are printed.
- No additional entry or setup is required by staff entering payroll data for this
to occur beyond the normal payroll setup.
- What is printed on the paystub?
- Top of stub: Company Name, Employee ID, Employee Last name, First name, SIN, Cheque
Control Number
- In columnnar format
- If details exceed the height of any column, details will print on the next stub
for the employee.
- Details printed are not condensed for different earnings and or deductions. Each
Earning or Deduction definition will be printed with a summarized total in the appropriated
column.
- Regular Wages
- Regular Hours
- Overtime Wages
- Overtime Hours
- Other Wages
- Other Hours
- Other Overtime Wages
- Other Overtime Hours
- Compulsary Deductions
- Compulsary Contributions
- Other Deductions
- Other Contributions
- To-Date Wages
- To-Date Hours
- Other To-Date details
- Bottom of stub: Payroll Period Ending, Cheque Number, Cheque Date, Gross Pay,
Net Pay
- Job Costing is the tracking of estimated, committed and actual costs and units
associated with a single, or any number of jobs the business has agreed to do for
a customer or customers for a fixed or cost plus price.
- In the AccountPro
Job Costing Platinum module jobs are tracked by 12 character alpha, numeric
or alphanumeric characters and a Job description of up to 45 characters.
AccountPro Payroll supports union payroll deductions and supports establishing as
many union deductions as required each of which may pertain to a certain union with
specifc details of how a deducton is to be calculated.
Some examples:
- The deduction can be for union dues, health and education fund, or whatever deduction
you establish in the payroll module
- Assign deduction ids to specific employee which, for example, will allow different
deductions for apprentices, journey persons, trades, etc.
- Calculate deduction for straight time
- Calculate deduction for overtime
- Deductions can be a percentage, dollar amount or both
- Paid by Employee or Employer or percentage split
- Maximum deduction amount
- Deductions can be turned On or Off globally for a pay period or by employee
- etc.
Modular software allows you to purchase only the modules you need.
Any module may be purchased and run as a standalone module without the need for
any other software, or additional AccountPro Software.
If multiple AccountPro modules are installed, the modules will automatically interface
with each other without any special setup.
- Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 or Windows 2003 (client or server).
- Memory 512mb (preferred 1gb) ram.
- 25mb free disk space for the first module (varies depending on what is installed),
5mb for each additional module.
- SVGA Monitor or better.
- Internet Connection for software downloads and upgrades (not required to run or install the program).
- The AccountPro
Job Costing module keeps a history of all entries in the module.
- Tracks billings, labor, material, hours and units.
- Includes tracking of labor costs, labor burden and hours posted from the Payroll
module.
- Provides breakdown by user defined category (or division) with sub-totals for
each.
- The AccountPro
Job Costing module keeps a history of all entries in the module.
- Provides breakdown by user defined category, job phase (division), sub-phase (or
sub-division) with sub-totals for each.