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Year-End Checklist for Payroll Version 5.2x and 6.0x

1.____ Post the payroll checks for the last payroll cycle of the year.

2.____ Print the quarterly reports:

bullet___ Earnings and Deductions Report
bullet___ Quarterly Employer's Tax Report
bullet___ Sick Leave and Vacation Report
bullet___ Quarterly Withholding Report
bullet___ Quarterly State Unemployment Report
bullet___ Department Report
bullet___ Transaction and Check History Reports
bullet___ 941 Worksheet

3.____ (OPTIONAL) Print any additional reports or have them saved to a file.

4.____ Backup data files.

5.____ Run the Post Expenses to GL function on the Periodic Processing menu.

6.____ Backup data files again. Do not use the same diskette or tape used in step 4.

7.____ Select the Year End option in the Periodic Maintenance function on the Periodic Processing menu to perform the following tasks1:

bulletcreate last-year files
bulletclear QTD and YTD balances in the new-year Employee History and Department files
bulletremove outdated transaction and check history
bulletdelete terminated employees from the Payroll files for the new year

8.____ Delete outdated recurring entries using the Purge Recurring Entries on the Periodic Processing menu.

9.____ Consolidate sick and vacation balance records using the Roll Up Leave Balance function on the Periodic Processing menu.

10.___ If you elected to have the system accrue vacation and sick hours. switch to the new year files using F9. Then select Tables from the File Maintenance menu to update the MAXVSxxx, SICccxxx, and VACccxxx tables for the new year. Otherwise, manually update sick and vacation hours in the new-year using the Leave Adjustments function on the File Maintenance menu.

11.___ Update the federal, state, and local tax tables and formulas in the new-year if necessary. Subscribing to the Software Fitness Program ensures that you are always up to date. If you have received an update disk, install it instead of manually updating the tables.

12.___ Rebuild the new-year PAEPxxx, PAEDxxx, PAEWxxx, PAEExxx, PAESxxx, and PAEGxxx files using the Change File Size and/or File Rebuild/Verify functions on the Data File Maintenance menu in Resource Manager.

13.___ Switch to the new year files using F9 to process payroll in the new year.

14.___ Switch to last-year files using F9 to update the last-year Employee and Department files, then select the Manual Checks function on the Payday Work menu.

15.____ Repeat steps 13 and 14 as needed.

16.____ Print the W-2 forms.

17.____ Delete last year files using the Close Last Year function on the Periodic Processing menu.

1 You can print W-2 forms before running Year end if you have completed payroll processing.

 

 

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