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− | Have the Preferences been correctly setup for Payroll?
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− | Select Utilities Tab
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− | Select Preferences button
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− | Select the Payroll tab
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− | Leave Accrual
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− | Select when leave is to be accrued (actual accrual rates are set in Awards<LinkId=154>)
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− | Balance Sheet
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− | Select which leave accruals are to show on your Balance Sheet - refer to your accountant for guidlines
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− | Payslip
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− | Select which accrual figures are to be displayed on employee Payslips
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− | Day/Week
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− | The information in this section defines how Timesheets work. Timesheets are used where hours are to be recorded
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− | against jobs or customers
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− | Start Day of Working Week - Enter here the start day for the working week and the start and finish times. These
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− | setting change the timesheet display.
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− | Use Employee Service as Employee Cost in Job Tracking - Select if you want to automatically populate the
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− | Employee Cost in Job tracking from the cost recorded in the Employee Service area
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− | Timesheets are allocated as done when applied to an invoice - Locks timesheets against changes after a
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− | client Invoice has been generated from it.
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− | Summarise Timesheet Entries when applying cost to invoice - Summarise timesheet entries or lines into a
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− | single billable amount
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− | Use Timesheet Rate Inc as Invoice Cost - Select if you want to automatically populate client invoices with the
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− | timesheet rate
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− | Load Hours from Roster
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− | This information defines how Rosters Work. Rosters define what hours an employee should work and the Clock
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− | ON / Clock Off feature records actual hours worked and can be linked directly to pays.
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− | Use Clocked Hours - When copying to Payroll use clocked hours rather than rostered hours
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− | Ignore Early Start - Don't copy hours prior to the rostered start time into payroll
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− | Ignore Late Finish - Don't copy hours after the rostered finish time into payroll
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− | General
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− | This information is essential for the correct calculation of leave accruals and PAYG Tax.
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− | Standard Hours worked per week - This figure is essential to convert hours of accrued leave to days.
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− | Annual Leave Weeks per Year - Used to calculate leave accrual rates
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− | Sick Leave Days Per Year Cap - This is the maximum number of sick leave days allowed to be accrued in a
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− | single year. This figure is used to calculate accrual rates. If there is a maximum number of days that can be
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− | accrued overall this is set in the Award
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− | Long Service Leave Weeks per Term - Used to calculate leave accrual rates
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− | The following preferences are rates set by the ATO and are used for termination payments only.
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− | Leave Loading Tax Threshold
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− | Medicare Levy Rate
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− | Medicare Levy Surcharge Rate
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− | Base Tax Rate for Lump Sums
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− | Lump Sum Flat Rate for Over 55
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− | Lump Sum E / Backpay Tax Rate
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− | Fringe Benefits Tax Rate
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− | No TFN Tax Rate
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− | Threshold Limit for RBL Purposes
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− | Lump Sum D (Basic Tax Free Potion)
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− | (Yearly Tax Free Portion)
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− | ETP Low Rate Threshold (per year)
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− | Default Superannuation Rate - This is the Superannuation Guarantee Levy rate
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− | Pay Super is Monthly Gross More Than - This is the monthly income level where the SGC cuts in. This is a
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− | cumulative figure so if an emloyee earns for example $400 per week, the first weekly pay each month will have
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− | no superannuation component but the difference will be made up in the second pay for the month.
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− | Pay by Department - allows pays to be run seperately for different cost centres
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− | Add to EFT by default - to use this option you must be registered with you bank for EFT and record your
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− | APCA Number and bank account details in Accounts<LinkId=8>
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− | Include Pays with $0 pay - creates a pay record and Payslip for employees who's pay is $0 for the period.
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− | Import Tax Scales - New tax scales are made available for import as required (usually at the start of a new
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− | financial year).
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− | Clearing Account
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− | Payroll Clearing Account - This must be a clearing account, not an actual Bank Account. Defaults to Payroll Bank
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− | Clearing.
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− | Expense Accounts - These are the costs to the company, irrelevant of payment or not. Use these accounts in
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− | the BAS/VAT
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− | Gross Wages - This is typically a simple header account, in that you don't post anything to this account, but
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− | use it as a summing account of those under it
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− | Leave Paid - This is the expense account for all leave types. Accrued leave is expensed at the time it accrues
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− | at the pay rate current at that time. When leave is taken it is expensed to Gross Wages at the actual current
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− | rate and the Leave Paid expense account is reduced by the original accrued amount.
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− | Super Paid - This is the expense account for superanuation
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− | Net Wages - This account records the actual cash paid to the employee
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− | Deduction Paid (Default) - This is the expense account for deductions
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− | Sundries - Any expense entered as sundries will show here
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− | Allowance Paid (Default) - This is the expense account for Allowences
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− | PAYG Expense - This is the tax expense as part of payroll
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− | Liability Accounts - These are the payments that are to be paid to the various suppliers, including the tax office. DO
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− | NOT Use these accounts in the BAS/VAT
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− | Deductions Liability - Amounts that need to be paid for any deductions taken from the employee ie union fees etc
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− | Leave Liability - Amounts accured for any Leave type that are to be paid to the employee when that leave type
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− | is taken
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− | Allowances Liability - Amounts that need to be paid for any allowences given to the employee ie travel allowence etc
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− | Super Payable - Amounts that need to be paid to the employees super fund
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− | PAYG Tax Payable - Amounts that need to be paid to the Tax office.
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