Sage 50 Payroll 2017 Training - CPD & IAO Accredited

Course Curriculum:

Sage 50 Payroll for Beginners

Module 1: Payroll Basics – Setting up payroll, tax codes, month end, reports, keeping records, license limitations and links to an accounts program

Module 2: Company Settings – Details, bank & coinage, absence, analysis, tax funding, statutory funding, HMRC payments, documents

Module 3: Legislation Settings – Legislation setting dialog box, PAYE, NI bands & rates, SSP, SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP, car details, student, AEO rates, minimum wage, childcare, automatic enrolment

Module 4: Pension Scheme Basics – Pensions schemes dialog box, setting up pension scheme, pensions regulator website and the sage 50 payroll pensions module

Module 5: Pay Elements – Pay elements settings dialog box, managing payment and deduction types, loans, net payments, salary sacrifice

Module 6: The Processing Date – Changing the processing date

Module 7: Adding Existing Employees – Using quick employee, adding multiple employees, changing their status, updating year-to-date values

Module 8: Adding New Employees –Adding new employees in a variety of ways

Module 9: Payroll Processing Basics – Payroll process view, change processing dates

Module 10: Entering Payments – Entering payment window, checking and editing payments

Module 11: Pre-Update Reports – Employer costs report, payslips, BACS payments reports, figures for accounts

Module 12: Updating Records – Updating records, period end P32 report

Module 13: e-Submissions Basics – e-submissions settings, EAS, FPS, EPS

Module 14: Process Payroll (November) – Entering payments, pre-update reports, updating records, P32 reports, full payment submission

Module 15: Employee Records and Reports – Using employee record window, tabs and to find employee and their reports

Module 16: Editing Employee Records – Editing different records for employees, creating new factored pay elements, applying pay elements to employees

Module 17: Process Payroll (December) – Processing the payroll, entering payments, pre-update reports, updating records, P32 report and Full payment submission

Module 18: Resetting Payments – Introduction to reset payments wizard

Module 19: Quick SSP – Processing the payroll with SSP, entering payments, pre-update reports, updating records, P32 report and full payment submission

Module 20: An Employee Leaves – Entering payments, updating records, lever wizard, P32 report, full payment submission, rejoining employees

Module 21: Final Payroll Run – Entering payments, pre-update reports, updating records, P32 report, full payment submissions

Module 22: Reports and Historical Data – Reports window, employee, company, legislation and historical reports, historical data settings, printing historical payslips and history report by employee

Module 23: Year-End Procedures – Year end tasks, payroll year end wizard, post year-end tasks

Sage 50 Payroll Intermediate Level

Module 1: The Outline View and Criteria – View by department and payment method, payment period and payment method, and resetting criteria

Module 2: Global Changes – See the affects of global changes to pay period and pay method, tax codes, and pay rates

Module 3: Timesheets – Using and resetting timesheets, processing payroll and changing process dates

Module 4: Departments and Analysis – Focus on managing new and old departments and their employees, analysis in different platforms

Module 5: Holiday Schemes – Reviewing holiday schemes, adding new ones, arranging national holidays and managing employee holiday schemes

Module 6: Recording Holidays – Recoding holidays, removing absence days, checking holiday records, holiday scheme reports

Module 7: Absence Reasons – Customize absence reasons, recording absence, different examples, reducing pay for unauthorised absence and absence reports

Module 8: Statutory Sick Pay – Working with patterns and absence year, SSP qualifications, rates, reports, and utilizing quick SSP dialog box

Module 9: Statutory Maternity Pay – SMP rates, payment, managing maternity details, processing payroll, other parental leave, changing the processing date and more

Module 10: Student Loans – Setting up and processing student loan repayments for employees

Module 11: Company Cars – Adding new cars, keeping track of business trips, processing payroll, car reports and taxation

Module 12: Workplace Pensions – Payroll pension module, automatic enrolment, reviewing pension scheme details, reports and more

Module 13: Holiday Funds – Managing holiday fund payments, processing payroll, paying out from the holiday fund, holiday fund reports and more

Module 14: Roll Back – Mistakes and payroll processing, roll back the payroll for selected employees, correcting mistakes and processing required change

Module 15: Passwords and Access Rights –Setting up passwords, new users, testing admin profile, changing personal password, deleting user accounts

Module 16: Options and Links – Contacts, program options, WebLinks

Module 17: Linking Payroll to Accounts – Nominal link setting dialog box, linking data