Payroll: A Guide to Running an Efficient Department

This book will help anyone who is responsible for a payroll department to manage payroll functions with the maximum efficiency and within compliance requirements. It will demonstrate the optimal methods for the basic functions of payroll through to year end and management. Proposed chapters include:
Part One Basic Functions of the Payroll Department
1. Time Records, 2. Form W-4, 3. New Hires, 4. Errors and Corrections, 5. Tax Deposits and Reporting, 6. Garnishments Part Two Staffing the Payroll Department
7. Creating a First Rate Payroll Department, 8. Managing the Staff, 9. Staff Motivation and Morale, 10. Working with Human Resources and other Departments Part Three Management Issues
11. Customer Service, 12. Fraud, 13. Dealing with the Internal Revenue Service, 14. Handling Department of Labor Audits, 15. Compliance Issues, 16. Research Needs Part Four Benefits and the Payroll Department
17. Should Payroll Handle the Company's Benefits? 18. Year End and Year Beginning Issues Part Five Payroll Systems
19. Objectives of a Computerized Payroll System, 20. Interfacing and Integration, 21. Selecting a Computerize Payroll System, 22. Controls and Security for the Payroll System, 23. Disaster Recover a Must, 24. Time and Attendance Systems, 25. Employee Self Service Systems Part Six Paying Employees
26. Paper Checks are Still an Option, 27. Direct Deposit, 28. Paycards Part Seven Year End
29. Start Year End Off With a Memo, 30. Year End Teams, 31. Check Lists, 32. Reconciliation of Payroll at Year End, 33. Form W-2
Part Eight Payroll and the New Year
34. Setting Up the Payroll System for the New Year, 35. Setting Up the Payroll Department for the New Year Part Nine Professionalism and the Payroll Department
36. What is a CPP? 37. Why you should become one, 38. Studying for the test, 39. Ongoing training, 40. Professional organizations

This resource for practitioners describes the most efficient methods for properly completing all the tasks of a payroll department. Nine chapters cover such areas as staffing the payroll department, administering benefits, paying employees, and preparing for year-end reconciliation. The final chapter is devoted to professional issues such as taking the CPP certification test. Sample copies of spreadsheets, forms, letters, and memos are found throughout the volume. Bibliographical references are absent. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Vicki M. Lambert, CPP (certified payroll professional), is a respected consultant, lecturer, and author of many books and articles. She lectures extensively throughout the United States on payroll administration and compliance issues for clients that have included Automatic Data Processing, CCH Incorporated, Ceridian Employer Services, and The Employer Group. She conceived of, created the teaching materials, and coordinated the program for the certificate in Payroll Practice and Management offered at several universities nationwide. Lambert has been a guest lecturer at the American Payroll Association Annual Symposium and the American Society for Payroll Management Forum and Trade Show, among others. She has written articles for the Payroll Practitioner’s Monthly State Tax Alert (IOMA), The Payroll Advisor (Aspen), California Payroll Compliance Report (ProPub) and Wage-Hour Compliance Report (ProPub), and she is a monthly contributing editor for the Payroll Practitioner’s Monthly (IOMA).

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