Payroll
Exception Report
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The Payroll Exception Report helps you identify and correct employees
with incorrect withholdings. Incorrect withholdings are often the result
of manually calculated payroll checks that were figured incorrectly. The
report shows the taxable gross amount, amount withheld, calculated amount
and difference, and actual amount withheld (as entered into Sage 50)
as opposed to the calculated amount withheld.
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Options
Select the Options button to determine
the data criteria for the reports you want to see or print. For this report
Sage 50 displays the following filter options:
- Dates: Select
the quarter to print from the drop-down list box.
- Sort by: You can sort by employee ID or employee name.
- Select a filter: First, select a filter on the left. Then, define the options for that filter on the right. The options differ based on the filter selected. Tell me more about the types of filter options.
- Tax to Check: This
list box contains calculable Payroll Fields that use tax formulas set up
to appear on Payroll Tax Report menus under the Tax Formulas
selection of the File menu. The tax table is then used to calculate Payroll
fields. The Payroll field information is set in Employee Defaults .
- Tax to Adjust to: This
list box contains a list of all Payroll Fields. You only need to select
one of these if the Prepare Correcting Entries box is checked. The tax
field cannot be the same one you selected in the Tax to Check list box.
Your selection will be used to create a payroll journal entry that fixes
the Tax to Check, and puts the error into the Tax to Adjust To. Employer
taxes cannot be adjusted here, only Employee taxes can be adjusted in
this report.
- Prepare Correcting Entries: If this box is checked, the program
prepares correcting journal entries and enters them into the Payroll Journal.
Once there, you can modify or remove them and, of course, post them to
the General Ledger and the employee records. If you are using the batch method of posting, be sure to post Payroll after
running this report.
Note: If you make errors in your manually calculated payroll, you need to technically refund money to your employee, or withhold extra in the next pay period. This is awkward for you and your employee, so for small errors you can simply move the error to something like Federal Income Tax Withheld. This way employees get the benefit of your error when they file their 1040.
Columns
Select the Columns link to choose which data fields to include and where the columns break
on your report. Tell me more about choosing report fields.
Fonts
Select the Fonts link to set the font styles for the heading and body of the report. You can also have the titles of the report show special codes, such as the
current period, today's date, an as-of date, and the company name. Tell me more about formatting reports.
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