Payroll Professional Career Guide and Counseling

Question: Can I do payroll from Quickbooks Professional? What's the difference between that and Quickbooks Payroll? It seems that the professional edition has everything you need to do payroll - am I wrong? Also, on additional note, do I need any other Quicken software other then professional services for a law firm?

Answer: Payroll is a module that is embedded in QB Pro. It has a rather simple time and billing module, look at it carefully to make sure it does what you need it to do, kinda depends upon the size of your firm. Might look at Timeslips (software package)

Question: How to be a Certified Payroll Professional?

Answer: take the test

Question: How do to payroll for a small business in Florida? Need answers from accountants or payroll professionals please. I don't need to know any tax rates. I should have the following deductions: Social Security Medicare Federal Tax Federal Unemployment State Unemployment (SUI) Is this correct????? How often do I send a liability check to the State and Federal??? Monthly for each??? What tax forms do I have to fill out and when?? Thanks, any help is appreciated.

Answer: It depends on the size or your business and your business address.

Question: plz accounting learners, professional see below payroll+tally? hello sir, if a person don't have good knowledge in accounting is it possible for the person to learn Tally. without the knowledge of Taxation can a person learn payroll and work on payroll paysoft without above two things is it possiblefor a person to learn oand impossible to learn and work on accounting and payroll platform

Answer: Yes, you can learn anything in Accounting without an accounting background. You just need training and experience.

Question: Attn: payroll specialists-what is the protocol for delivering tax documents to employees? is it generally acceptable to hand them to the employees in person, or should I mail them? I have always mailed them in the past. Current employees want me to give them to them here in the office. Any opinion on this from tax professionals or payroll specialists?

Answer: Some employers just like to mail absolutely everything, but unless you want a return receipt on all of them to prove they got them, feel free to hand them out and mail the ones you can't give out by hand. If it makes you feel more comfortable, have them sign for the envelopes. Something as simple as a list of employees under a short paragraph stating that by signing they agree that they received their 2006 W-2's by hand, on this day, rather than by mail, and lines for their signatures. But whatever you don't hand out should definitely go in the mail by next Wednesday.

Question: Payroll Question - what do I do? Need the help of a professional!? So, I'm a supplemental employee and am paid by the hour. I work flexible hours, but generally come in at the same time every week. Anyway, there was a week that I wasn't planning on coming in, which is a normal and understandable occurrence. The online time card system we use made me put in what hours I worked that week, so I just applied "scheduled hours absent" to the entire week since the description matched why I was out. Anyway, my paycheck came in the mail this week and they paid me for 48 hours, when I don't even work full time regularly, and my paycheck ended up being 4 times the amount what it would have been had I even gone in! I can't just let this slip by, it's way too much extra money, and I'm a new employee and I want to stay on my bosses' good side. Someone advised me to call her first, and let her know what happened and then tell her I was going to call payroll services (CONTINUED) However, I almost want to bypass her and call them directly and try not to even bring it to her attention because the mistake was entirely my fault for putting in that I was absent the entire week, which they interpreted as full time (I didn't think it would matter because I thought it wouldn't be paid!) But also I think I maybe should tell her first in case payroll services calls her and gets her in trouble for approving these hours (which she did). What do you think I should do??

Answer: You need to bring it to your boss' attention immediately and let her tell you how to proceed. I appreciate that you believe you may be culpable but actually it was the payroll processing service that misinterpreted your statement "schedule hours absent". Your boss may want to investigate further since if you were overpaid so easily there could be an issue with other employees. Honesty is the best policy and since you are already prepared to return the overpayment you should be applauded for your integrity and under no circumstances penalized. Good luck.

Question: How long does it take NHS Professionals to put your application through and get you on to payroll? I have put in my application to work in the trust that I am already employed in but they didn't say how long it would take to get me fully registered. I presume that the process will be quicker as I am already employed by the Trust?

Answer: Hello, It shouldn't take more than a few weeks as you already work for the Trust. If you have any enquiries, then please call the NHS Professionals payroll number - 0845 456 6640. Good luck :-)

Question: How do professional athletes recieve their salary? Are they on payroll?

Answer: lol. They generally get paid on a per game basis. Depending on where they played. Because its easier to sort out the taxes. If there was any state taxes or professional entertainer or athlete tax they have to deduct from that particular game. It gets very complicated. If you are suspended without pay you dont get anything. They generally have direct deposit.

Question: Huge change needed in Professional Sports? Should Baseball, Basketball and Football do what the NHL did a few years back? I know Hockey did it out of necessity, but the payrolls for teams are really getting out of hand. I have actually stopped watching the NBA, because my local team has priced me out of attending a game. Sure I can get nose bleeds, but 5 to 8 years ago I could have gotten nice seats for the same price. Professional sports are pricing fans out of the game. I think its due to the explosion in athletes salaries. rollerific - basically the NHL went bankrupt, because fans started losing interest because of rising players saleries and rising ticket prices. So the NHL shut down and restarted with extremely lower players saleries and lower ticket prices. bowlergolfer - Thats why the NHL sut down. The players union would not budge on lower saleries. So the NHL just shut down. Basically saying that if you want to play the only way the league will continue is if you take lower saleries. I think what the NHL did was AWESOME. MLB, NFL and NBA need to do the same, or they stand to lose a ton of fans in the coming years.

Answer: with the players unions involved as they are, good luck getting the players to accept less money

Question: Birthdate for employment at payroll dept? I recently accepted a job and the accountant wants my complete birth date for the tax department to do my pay. Do they really need my birthdate to prepare their tax work for employers? Only serious professional answers please

Answer: As far as I am aware, they need to verify who you are for tax purposes no matter what, and they need to do so in as many ways as possible. They will most likely run your complete birth-date along with drivers licenses number, and social security number threw a data base. It will also give them the ability to see if you owe taxes or such. But an employer needs that information for other things besides just taxes. I hope that helps. Only be cautious if they start asking for things that you KNOW aren't relevant. Things such as place of brith, and mothers maiden name, those things have nothing to do with your job or your taxes! Good Luck!