The course provides delegates with a complete understanding of how to set up the Sage Payroll program, from setting up your own company preferences to holiday schemes. The course is also essential training for those users who have upgraded from a DOS version of Sage Payroll.

CONTENT

• Program and payroll basics
• Backing up and restoring data
• Company settings
• Registering as an employer
• Understanding Pay as you earn (PAYE) system
• Income tax bands and rates
• Adding employees into payroll software
• Creating pay elements
• Understanding year to date values
• Processing payments for employees
• Generating payslips
• Generating pre-update reports
• Departments and employee analysis
• Calculating and processing statutory payments
• Calculating and paying statutory sick pay (SSP)
• Calculating and paying statutory maternity pay (SMP)
• Calculating and paying statutory paternity pay (SPP)
• Recording absences
• Updating the payroll records with leavers and joiners
• Payment by BACS
• Yearend procedures
• Printing and Issuing payslips to employees
• Real-time information (RTI) reports
• Full payment submission (FPS)
• Employer payment summary (EPS)
• Submitting PAYE to HMRC
• Issuing P45 to employees when they leave
• Issuing P60’s to employees at the end of each tax year

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:

Nigeria - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000