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About This Course

This course provides you with an in-depth view of the extensive functionality contained within the Payroll application. Besides learning the functionality, you also learn tips and techniques that can help make an implementation successful, and you gain a thorough understanding of the Payroll application and its capabilities.

Audience Profile

The course covers the setup of the Payroll module. It covers the setup windows that are necessary to complete in order to start using Payroll, and the processing of Payroll checks. It also focuses on the options available to you to maintain and retrieve your Payroll data. Closing your periods, quarters and the year-end is also covered in this course and a short discussion on using Direct Deposit is also included.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, it is recommended that students have:

• Some working knowledge of Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains
• Some basic understanding of Payroll law and regulations

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Effectively use the Payroll Setup windows to customize the application to your organizational needs
• Understand the benefits of using employee classes
• Set up tax information for federal, state and local taxes for employees in Payroll
• Create pay codes, deduction codes, benefit codes and other employee related information used to calculate Payroll checks
• Assign methods to calculate vacation and sick time for employees
• Build and calculate checks
• Generate and void Payroll checks for employees
• Use inquiries to access Payroll information
• Create Payroll report options and produce desired reports
• Print numerous other Payroll documents such as Advice Slips, 1099R