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Sage Timberline Accounting Payroll processes even the most complex construction payrolls automatically. Through Sage Timberline Accounting's integration, information generated in Payroll flows seamlessly throughout the software to help you monitor and control labour costs.
Streamlined entry  makes it easy to capture employee hours from the job site or the head office. Once the information is entered, Payroll calculates each pay and it's deductions, allowances, superannuation allowance, FBT, PAYG tax and state payroll tax based on predefined controls. And an automated process makes it straightforward to run payroll.
Using Sage Timberline Accounting's access tools, your payroll information is always immediately available. Interactive inquiries let you view stored information , such as total pay, overtime and holiday, sick and long service leave hours taken and accrued - onscreen in seconds. And customisable reports let you calculate and print information in any format you need to conduct in depth labour analysis.
To address international payroll issues, Sage Timberline offers different versions of Payroll for the United States, Canada and Australia. Each of these versions incorporates localised terminology, Processing and reporting requirements for the specific region.
Following is a detailed list of the features Payroll offers to help you process pays and track employee information:

Payroll controls

• Define unlimited pays, deductions and allowances for automatic payroll calculation.
• Easily set up tax tables for automatic calculation of federal and state taxes (Sage Timberline Service Plan subscribers receive tax table updates whenever they alter).
• Exempt pay or deductions from any tax.
• Determine the order pays, deductions, allowances and taxes are calculated for each employee.
• Define guidelines for automatic calculation of overtime and workers compensation.
• Define guidelines for automatic calculation of EBA pays, deductions and allowances for any combination of job.
• Easily set up rate tables to automatically calculate pay and allowance rates based on specific employment factors (for example, job, award/EBA, workers compensation, equipment usage).
• Define rates and calculation methods at the company, award/EBA or employee level.
• Define employee groups for use in time entry, cheque printing and cost tracking (for example, site work, administration, salary).

Entry and processing

• Enter time and other payroll information to jobs, cost codes, categories, days of the week, workers compensation codes, union locals and classes, certified classes and more.
• Customise timesheet entry views for different employees, groups, departments, etc.
• Import timesheet information from Sage Timberline Accounting's Remote Time Entry application or other time capturing software.
• Automatically apply appropriate pay rates and workers compensation codes based on predefined controls.
• Automatically apply appropriate pay rates and workers compensation codes based on predefined controls.
• Automatically prorate employee salary based on the hours worked for each job.
• Automatically calculate tax based on work location by state.
• Automatically switch union locals based on job location.
• Send detailed payroll information to Sage Timberline Accounting Job Cost, Billing, Equipment Cost and General Ledger.
• Verify Entry with customisable audit journals.

Cheque printing

• Define the content of the cheque face and stub.
• Record manual pays outside of the normal pay run (for example, termination pay).
• Easily recalculate pays that change after payroll is processed.
• Automatically print a detailed or summary cheque register following the cheque run.

Employee tracking

• Track employment date, termination date and all other employee information.
• Track month-to-date, quarter-to-date and year-to-date employee totals for pays, deductions, allowances and taxes.
• Track accumulated units or dollars that don't affect the employee's pay (for example, hours lost to injuries).
• Track personnel to-do's (for example, Tax File No, employment date).
• Add up to 250 user-defined data fields to track additional information (for example, drivers license numbers, mobile phone numbers, superannuation policy numbers, assigned company credit cards).

Inquiry

• Choose from 15 pre-designed Payroll inquiries (for example, Employee Totals, Certified Activity).
• Drill down on summary information to view supporting detail (for example, Click on an employee's total timesheet hours to see individual timesheet entries).
• Apply conditions to display only the information you want to see.
• View and insert electronic notes and file attachments.
• Insert columns of data on-the-fly to quickly access additional information.
• Modify any of the more than 100 inquiries contained in a complete Sage Timberline Accounting Extended system, or create new inquiries using the Sage Timberline Accounting Inquiry Designer.

Reporting

• Choose from 55 pre-designed Payroll reports to calculate and print information at any time (for example, Workers Compensation Detail, Monthly Employment Utilisation, Union Summary).
• Produce different sets of reports based on your countries requirements (for example, U.S. W-2s, Canadian T-4s. Australian Group Certificates.
• Apply conditions and ranges to print exactly the information you need.
• Modify nearly all of the more than 500 reports contained in a complete Sage Timberline Accounting Extended system, or create new reports using the Sage Timberline Accounting Report Designer.

Additional features

• Electronic lodgement of Group Certificates.
• Automatically process direct deposits.
• Easily edit or void pays even after they've been posted.
• Enter notes and attach electronic files (for example, digital photos or scanned garnishments) throughout Payroll for additional documentation.
• Enter employee time to one company or division but make payments from another company or division.
• Transfer pay and tax totals for employee records that need to be processed separately throughout the year then consolidated for year-end tax reporting.
• Bank reconciliation using Sage Timberline Accounting's integrated Cash Management application.
• Customise the toolbar for push-button access to reports, inquiries and tasks.
• Change onscreen descriptions to match your companies standard terminology.
• Setup macros for unattended processing of predefines tasks.
• Define security rights by user or group.

Payroll is one of many applications offered by Sage Timberlines accounting Suite, Sage Timberline's fully integrated accounting software system for construction an property management firms. Designed for the 32-bit multitasking environments of Windows XP, Sage Timberline Accounting gives you the tools to make better decisions, increase productivity and, ultimately, build profits.

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