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December 2008

It is essential to lock your periods once a GST period is completed. The reason for this is so you don’t continue to enter transactions into the period which is essentially ‘finished’. From the main menu, select [Setup] Preferences then Security tab Tick the option to Lock Periods: Disallow entries up to and including… From [...]

You can view employees pay history and reprint past payslips.  From Maintain Employees section, select the Pay History tab. To reprint a previous payslip, double click on the payslip concerned. It will open. At this point the payslip may be printed or emailed. #adp01

Always remember to finalise a pay You will find a PAYE Calculator in the ‘tools’ section of the menu. This is handy for checking actual PAYE amounts When paying out sick leave, remember to enter the actual date the sick leave relates to You can fix up incorrect pays in the next pay run.  Just [...]

Normally employees should be finished using the Final Pay button in the Enter Pays screen which will pay out any leave balances. If this isn’t done the employee will continue to appear in the Payroll. You cannot delete ex-employees, but a ‘Finish Date’ can be entered. See the following procedure. Finishing an ”Ex-Employee” 1. Go to [...]

The following shortcut (function) keys can make things quicker when using MYOB Payroll

…No Annual Leave was calculated for my employee and the Holiday Pay remained the same! Answer This will occur when an employee has been set up with NO ‘Normal Hours’ and therefore NO Annual Leave entitlement.

How do I Pay out Annual Leave?

by Lynley on Dec 19 2008 · 0 comments

When employees take Annual Leave you should always pay it out using the Annual Holiday (ANHL) pay code. This should be done even if an employee has not become entitled to Annual Leave as yet. The payroll will record the Annual Leave taken as Annual Leave taken in advance as shown in the screen shot [...]

It is only possible to revert to using ‘Individual Anniversary’ dates for new employees and existing employees that have been employed for less than a year. If you untick the ‘Common Anniversary ‘date option all existing employees who have been employed for more than 12 months should keep this anniversary date. Existing employees that have been [...]

A ‘Common Anniversary’ indicates that all employees Annual Leave updates are done at the same time. This differs from the usual ‘Individual Anniversary’, 12 months after the employee start date. Businesses that observe an ‘Annual Closedown’ often choose a ‘Common Anniversary’ date to make the management of leave easier. The employer would normally nominate a ‘Common Anniversary’ date a few [...]

Answer Select Change PAYE Period (done monthly for small employers and half-monthly for large employers – the cut of for a large employer will be >$250,000 PAYE per annum from 1/4/09) After you have finalised the pay, you may want to set the system up for the next pay. You can use the Change PAYE [...]