Manual payroll checks

[jacobb]

Manual checks have been written for payroll not using PC. We now need to enter those checks. Is it best to enter them through Fund Accounting-Enter Transactions, Accounts Payable-Maintain Open Invoices, Accounts Payable-Maintain Manual Checks, or Payroll-Manual Checks? This is somewhat complicated by the fact that the figures used in preparing the earlier payroll checks don't match what PC shows using the payroll function.

[JohnDMeyers]

Not sure why PowerChurch doesn't match your figures. Do you have tax tables entered in PowerChurch?

Using Payroll will allow you to automaticallly produce w-2's at the end of the year, provided you straighten out the issue of matching the figures correctly, and it will go into the income/expense statement to help you in budgeting.

Using Enter Transactions only will at least put the information into your income/expense statements and be useful for budgeting purposes.

It depends on your needs.

Using Accounts Payable probably won't benefit you.

[jacobb]

Thanks for the reply. We're checking with the church treasurer to see if we can figure out the discrepancy in the figures. I'm still not sure from your answer if we use Enter Transactions, will that put the appropriate figures in so that the W-2's, etc will be generated correctly at the end of the year? Guess I'm not sure yet whether Payroll does anything special to flag them or whether the figures are just taken from the various accounts. Hope that makes sense.

[JohnDMeyers]

Using Enter Transactions won't give you W-2s at the end of the year. That is all done through Employee Pay Items in Payroll.

[jacobb]

Thanks, John.

I suspected as much. Our treasurer hasn't set up Payroll yet with the tax tables, etc. I'll stress for him the importance of getting that done.

Blessings,