Payroll

The end of the year is a busy season for payroll practitioners, but it’s a good time to start planning your year ahead.

As you prepare to safeguard your clients’ information against potential cyber threats, it’s important to consider where your payroll information is being stored. Is it on a laptop, the Cloud, hosted on a server? Each comes with its own set of risks ...

Private sector small business employment increased by 90,000 jobs from September to October according to the October ADP Small Business Report.

Balance clients’ quarterly to annual figures. Check the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of clients’ employees for errors. Review filing criteria with clients. Compare UI and FUTA wages. Provide clients’ employees with correct forms. Help clients with any notices. File any amendments.

With millions of Americans lacking adequate retirement savings, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has launched myRA, a simple, safe and affordable new savings option for those who don’t have access to a retirement savings plan

Do you provide flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for your employees? Generally, if the FSAs aren't emptied out by year-end, the employees must forfeit the unused funds ... forever.

If you can’t remember the last time you reviewed your employees’ compensation, it’s been too long. Your staff members know what they’re worth and what the local job market is paying, and so should you. At least once a year, benchmark your firm’s ...

Known as required minimum distributions (RMDs), these payments normally must be made by the end of 2015. But a special rule allows first-year recipients of these payments, those who reached age 70½ during 2015, to wait until as late as April 1, 2016 ...