QuickBooks Pro 2006 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

8. Processing Payroll

Processing Payroll with QuickBooks

An important—and extremely complex—part of any company’s accounting records is payroll. Tracking employee payroll means keeping track of hours worked, vacation time accrued, and monies paid. It means deciphering tax laws for the Federal and state governments and making calculations for withholding, employer taxes, and other deductions and expenses. The more employees you have, the more trouble tracking payroll can be.

Although QuickBooks does not have a built-in payroll feature, it does work with two different payroll services:

• QuickBooks Payroll for Mac is a Web-based payroll service provided by PayCycle Inc. You subscribe to the Pay-Cycle service that best meets your needs. Then, when ...