Sage Payroll training

Whether you've just started out in business, outsourced your payroll or you've kept your payroll manually for years - this is the course for you. This course will show you how to set up and configure Payroll, ensuring that you go on to produce problem-free payroll runs in the future.

• Understand how to configure the program to suit company requirements
• Know how to set up your company details, absence reasons, departments and cost centres
• Be able to create pay elements for payments, deductions and net payments and understand the pay element reports
• Know how to set up pension schemes to deduct pension contributions from the employee and calculate any employer contributions
• Understand the methods of creating, editing and customising employee records
• Learn how to use password protection and how to restrict user access
• Be able to enter year to date figures for employees using the P11 form

This course lets you to grips with processing your payroll run, maintaining employee records, calculating sick, maternity pay, adoption, paternity pay and handling pensions. Become an expert in all of these areas, including the all-important Year End. Remember, legislation for payroll is stringent, so can you afford to miss out on the latest developments? This course will show you how to stay right up to date!

• Know how to perform a basic payroll run in Sage 50 Payroll
• Learn about payslip production including emailing payslips directly from Sage 50 Payroll
• Know how to allocate and process pension schemes
• Understand how to allocate and process Attachments of Earnings
• Be able to use the monthly P32 form to calculate amounts due to HMRC
• Understand how to correct errors using the restore, rollback or recover procedures
• Be able to create holiday schemes and use the absence diary to record the details
• Learn how to process holiday pay in advance to employees
• Know how to set up the link between Sage 50 Payroll and Sage 50 Accounts and how to transfer the data
• Be able to set up new starters with and without P45 details
• Be able to process statutory payments and calculate employee entitlement
• Learn how to set up the electronic banking feature and pay your employees and/or HMRC directly from Sage 50 Payroll

This course will give you a firm grasp on how to create your own reports using the program’s powerful report generator. You’ll also learn all about how to amend existing layouts – for instance, if you have employees with more deductions and withholdings than the standard payslip layout permits, you’ll learn how to include those. You’ll be a complete Sage Payroll operator in no time.

• Be able to create new reports and amend standard reports and page layouts
• Learn how to amend your payslip layouts and add email functionality to your payslips/reports
• Know how to insert expressions into a report to calculate and print specified information
• Know how to insert groups into existing reports to deal with subsections and sub/grand totals
• Understand how to add filters to select specific information in the report
• Learn how to add and print criteria on reports

Get the skills and knowledge you need to complete your Payroll Year End using Sage 50 Payroll. Includes how to identify and overcome common issues, Year End Processing and Returns, Internet Submissions and preparing for the new tax year.

• Understand the preliminary tasks that make Payroll Year End run smoothly
• Know how to identify and correct errors prior to Payroll Year End processing
• Understand the Payroll Year End procedure and how to ensure all appropriate checks are completed
• Understand the different statutory forms and when they need to be submitted
• Know how to submit P14 and P35 forms electronically to HMRC
• Know how to get ready and process your payroll in the new tax year