Most businesses have established policies and procedures for managing employee leave and calculating accruals. However, not all business management solutions can easily support those plans. Even robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, like Microsoft Dynamics GP, struggle with coordinating accruals, leave management, and balancing other plan details. Stop struggling with leave management and put the [...]
There are times when employees wear multiple hats and work for different departments or on different projects. Managing their time and expenses by hand is next to impossible, especially when you have a number of employees moving in different directions across your organization. Automatically allocate employee costs across multiple cost centers by integrating this powerful [...]
Content updated on July 17, 2017 Integrating key software systems can save hours of exporting and importing data from one system to another. For example, having your time-keeping system fully integrated with your payroll solution can greatly reduce the amount of time spent on a regular basis keying in worked hours so that the payroll system [...]
With tax day right around the corner, your accounting team is probably looking forward to a bit of a reprieve. They’ve worked hard to collect and prepare necessary statements, documents and forms for your employees and business as tax day approaches. Provide your accounting department with these two time-saving tools to help your hard-working team [...]
Many employers offer a variety of benefit programs in an effort to attract and retain skilled employees who will contribute to business success and growth. There are many different types of benefit programs and each one comes with a very specific set of regulations or rules. Managing employee benefits doesn’t have to be complicated or [...]
Advancements in technology are changing the way we do business on so many levels. Many businesses are using more advanced management solutions to optimize operations throughout their organization. If you are among the many businesses in the midst of a digital transformation, don’t overlook payroll and benefits management. Businesses of all sizes and in nearly [...]
In most offices, employees wear a lot of hats, so to speak, working for different departments or on multiple projects. While good for the bottom line, multi-tasking employees also introduce a new set of challenges in the payroll department. Manually splitting time across different cost centers is time-consuming and risky. Streamline complicated payroll by enhancing [...]
The IRS recently released information about retirement plan contribution limits for 2017 and there doesn’t appear to be any major changes. As before, employees have caps for the amount of money that can be directed into retirement savings. While these IRS rules seem pretty cut and dry, that doesn’t easily translate through payroll. Contributions can [...]
In a move that has many heads spinning, a federal district court judge in Texas granted a last-minute temporary injunction against the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime exemption rule that was supposed to become effective on December 1st. The court order blocks the rule from taking affect; however, that’s definitely not the end [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently published significant changes to the overtime rules which become effective in less than a month. Businesses are working hard to reclassify exempt and nonexempt workers, calculate the cost behind those changes and put additional procedures or technology in place to capture necessary data. Be prepared for these new [...]