Payroll Operations Training & Certification Program
Online Course: ID# 1000063
Price: $799.00
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About This Course:
Learn Best Practices For Handling Payroll Daily OperationsThe Payroll Operations Training & Certification Program helps beginning and intermediate HR professionals learn the basic payroll requirements.
The Program includes plain-English descriptions of the various requirements, processes, and procedures, as well as numerous examples, administrative tips, and interactive Q&A to help provide valuable insight into compliance requirements.
The Program also includes an optional test for those who wish to earn a "Certified Payroll Operations Administrator" designation. This Program also qualifies for eight hours of PHR and SPHR re-certification credits!
What You'll Learn:Here is just some of what you will learn from our Payroll Operations training course, including how to:
- Maintain accurate payroll records, such as hours worked, pay, and tips and tax amounts
- Track, pay, and report Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) deductions
- Track and process exemptions, fringe benefits, retirement plan deductions, garnishments, levies, and other deductions
- Distribute payments through checks, paycards, and/or direct deposit
- Retain records and forms, such as I-9s and eVerify
- Comply with various wage and hour laws and IRS regulations
- Establish and maintain self-service systems, direct deposits, and paycards
- Select and implement a payroll system
- Develop audit and disaster recovery plans
- Comply with various state and federal record retention requirements
About The Payroll Operations Training &Certification Program
This course is sold as an annual subscription with four components: the training course itself; access to all training materials as a resource for one full year; free updates whenever the law changes, and; a Certified Administrator designation. Access to resource materials, free updates, and a new Certificate are available for subsequent years for a low renewal fee of $99 per year.
Excerpts From Our Payroll Operations Training & Certification Program
Below are a couple of samples from our payroll operations training course. These excerpts provide a quick overview of payroll requirements that someone new to payroll might not have even heard of; instructions for completing the forms, dates for submission, making changes or correcting errors, etc. are included in the course itself.
Want to see more of what is covered? Click here to see the complete list of topics covered by this course.
Program Demo: How The Payroll Operations Training & Certification Program Works
Our Payroll Operations Training & Certification Program includes training that meets instructional design requirements. Namely, each Lesson starts with a Lesson Goals page that outlines the key items that will be taught in that Lesson, followed by multiple pages of training, and concluding with End Of Lesson Quizzes that test against the lesson goals. Read futher for visuals and further explanations.
Lesson GoalsEach self-paced Training & Certification Program is delivered right to your desktop at the time you choose, and is loaded with information, examples, administrative tips, and interactive questions to help you understand and comply with Federally-mandated rules and regulations. You'll learn proactive design and administrative options, as well as key compliance processes and procedures to help reduce costs and health care claims, staring with a Lesson Goals page that tells you what you'll learn in that lesson.
Benefit From Great Content, Easy To Use NavigationEach of our Training & Certification Programs includes great training content, written in non-legal terms and supported with numerous tips, examples, and procedural recommendations. "Glossary" and "Help" buttons also are included, as well as a special "Bookmark" feature so you can save your place as needed.
End Of Lesson QuizLesson goals and learned content are tested through interactive questions during and at the end of each lesson. Answers to each question are provided right on that page to give you immediate feedback.
Certification
And don't forget: upon completion of the Training portion of your Program, you can test for "Certification". Certification helps provide confidence to Managers that the person handling Payroll has a good understanding of the complex requirements necessary for proper compliance.
Top FAQs
Maintaining accurate payroll records, such as hours worked, pay, and tips and tax amounts, obeying federal and state rules, and submitting required reports on a timely basis.
In addition to ensuring that employees are paid correctly and on time, "Payroll" has numerous time and reporting requirements. The primary payroll areas include paychecks, reporting, operations, and management.
While many payroll-related regulations are federally-governed, there also are many state requirements, including those for handling garnishment, final paychecks, and unclaimed paychecks. Each state's requirements differ in the details, so be sure to check your state's requirements by clicking the applicable link(s) at the bottom of this page.
Payroll Administrators must be able to:
- Properly "classify" workers
- Apply the various exemptions
- Calculate gross pay and properly make deductions
- Correctly identify, pay, and withhold taxes for employees
- Administer deferred compensation, cafeteria plan, sick pay, and other compensation
- Handle stock options, expense reimbursements, relocation, and other "expenses"
- Follow the proper policies, procedures, and documentation requirements for garnishments and levies
- Properly complete and file all required reporting requirements
- Correctly complete year-end requirements and establish year-beginning requirements
- Implement and maintain fraud, audit, disaster recovery, and record retention processes and procedures
Time clocks, time sheets, and electronic methods are a couple ways to track hours worked.
Payroll is much more than just handing out paychecks, and includes a variety of responsibilities such as handling garnishments, travel pay, multi-state taxation, unclaimed paychecks, and much more in a timely and accurate fashion.
In business since the mid-1990's, we have over 25 years of experience delivering high-quality training content via seminar, webinar, online, and other formats. Each of our courses are delivered by an industry expert who will share his or her years of experience to help you be in compliance, smarter, and more productive, and almost all offer SHRM and HRCI credits.
Continuing Education Credits:
Click the 'Credits' tab above for information on PHR/SPHR, PDCs, and other CE credits offered by taking this course.
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