In Top-to-Bottom Payroll Management, you'll learn...
- How to streamline your payroll process to make it faster, easier to manage and more effective
- How to keep your payroll management costs to a minimum … without sacrificing accuracy
- State and federally accepted standards for record keeping and accounting
- What constitutes compensation … and what it means to your workers’ various benefits
- And much more!
WORKSHOP AGENDA
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The payroll process and your role as payroll administrator+
- How to put the 3 points of payroll to work for you
- Steps every payroll professional must take to compensate each employee
- 4 landmarks on the payroll accounting path
- In you they trust: A professional approach makes or breaks your payroll
- How the FLSA affects every element of your payroll process
- What you need to know about FICA, FUTA, ERISA and OASDI
- So you might want to outsource to a payroll service …
- The accurate way to cost payroll
How to properly classify employees and other workers+
- The Common Law test on employees and independent contractors
- 9 steps to proper hiring that will streamline payroll down the road
- Your responsibilities when it comes to employee forms and documentation
- How to understand which workers fall outside FLSA standards
- How to classify former employees who contribute on a consulting basis
- Temporary, leased and statutory employees: How to decide who pays FICA and withholds taxes
- Executives, administratives and professionals … who’s really exempt?
- From Form SS-4 to Form W-4: What you need to know about hiring-related reporting
Facts and figures: Calculating work time, wages, withholding …+
- Tactical tips for tracking work time
- Questionable “work” hours and how to know what to pay for
- Overtime calculations for hourly, salaried and other workers
- Special cases: How to handle FLSA exempt employees and overtime
- Strategies for tracking time for home-based and other telecommuting employees
- How to accurately figure sick pay, vacation pay, paid holidays and other nonwork benefits
- The 5 common wage-docking instances that can spell trouble for your company
- ”Banking” employee hours and other comp-time strategies
Garnishment, the courts and your payroll+
- Guidelines for wage attachment policies and procedures
- How to make sense of court orders while following the letter of the law
- What the Consumer Credit Protection Act says creditors can and cannot do
- How to rank bankruptcy orders for compliance with the courts
- What the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act means to garnishing for defaulted student loans
- How Administrative Wage Garnishment works and what its restrictions are
- Proper procedures for handling federal tax levies
- The Family Support Act and employees subject to child support orders
Questions and answers about employee benefits and related taxes+
- Noncash benefits and their effect on payroll
- De minimis fringe benefits: What’s acceptable and what’s not?
- How to determine company car restrictions and allowances
- Parking and the qualified-transportation fringe benefit
- Synchronized efforts: Your cafeteria plan and IRS Code Section 125
- How to manage Flexible Spending Arrangements for maximum benefits
- When FMLA situations evolve into COBRA considerations
How to handle payroll taxes and deposits+
- The 3-rule test for FUTA tax requirements
- How to comply with your state’s unemployment tax system
- Meeting the rules for Form 941’s Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes
- Your company’s role as a fund tax trustee
- Form 940 taxes and staying on schedule with your requirements
- How to make a smooth switch to the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System
Fail-safe payroll reporting tactics and strategies+
- Simplifying Forms 940 and 940-EZ through better understanding
- How to manage the quarterly complexities of Form 941
- Step-by-step answers to your W-2 questions
- How to reconcile Form W-3 amounts with those on Form 941 for maximum accuracy
- Tips for reporting income other than wages and salaries through Form 1099
- How to tailor a month-by-month compliance schedule to your business
- How to tap helpful on-line IRS and state resources 24/7
