November 2023
Beginner
640 pages
16h 20m
English
Content preview from QuickBooks 2024 All-in-One For Dummies
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Chapter 5
Paying Employees
IN THIS CHAPTER
Setting up a payroll service
Setting up payroll runs
Getting your employees paid
Revising checks
Handling payroll liabilities
QuickBooks provides a do-it-yourself option for paying employees: Enhanced Payroll, which means that QuickBooks helps you with the payroll tax forms. A second payroll option would be QuickBooks Assisted Payroll. With this option, you handle paying your employees within QuickBooks; then Intuit handles making the tax payments and filing the necessary payroll tax forms.
If you go with ...
Yet another option to consider in case you’re not an accountant and are in need of payroll: Think about splurging a bit and going with one of the full-service payroll providers, such as ADP, Paychex, and Gusto. Having one of them process your payroll greatly simplifies the accounting work and — in my experience — saves you money over time.