Payroll

This book will help anyone who is responsible for a payrolldepartment to manage payroll functions with the maximum efficiencyand within compliance requirements. It will demonstrate the optimalmethods for the basic functions of payroll through to year end andmanagement. Proposed chapters include:
Part One Basic Functions of the Payroll Department
1. Time Records, 2. Form W-4, 3. New Hires, 4. Errors andCorrections, 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 Resourcesand other Departments
Part Three Management Issues
11. Customer Service, 12. Fraud, 13. Dealing with the InternalRevenue 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 andYear Beginning Issues
Part Five Payroll Systems
19. Objectives of a Computerized Payroll System, 20. Interfacingand Integration, 21. Selecting a Computerize Payroll System, 22.Controls and Security for the Payroll System, 23. Disaster Recovera Must, 24. Time and Attendance Systems, 25. Employee Self ServiceSystems
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. CheckLists, 32. Reconciliation of Payroll at Year End, 33. FormW-2
Part Eight Payroll and the New Year
34. Setting Up the Payroll System for the New Year, 35. Setting Upthe 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 forthe test, 39. Ongoing training, 40. Professional organizations