Chapter 5
Paying Employees
IN THIS CHAPTER
Setting up payroll service
Setting up payroll runs
Getting your employees paid
Revising checks
Handling payroll liabilities
QuickBooks provides two do-it-yourself options for paying employees: Basic Payroll (which usually means that your accountant helps you with the payroll tax forms) and Enhanced Payroll (which means that QuickBooks helps you with the payroll tax forms). This chapter describes the Basic Payroll option. With the Basic Payroll option, you do most of the work yourself, but you don’t pay very much for your payroll processing.
A third payroll option would be QuickBooks Assisted Payroll. With this option, you handle paying your employees within QuickBooks, and then Intuit handles the tax payments and filing necessary payroll tax forms.
Yet another option to consider in case you’re not an accountant and are accounting work and ...