I'm helping a charity prep for audit (they use Sage 50 Pro Accounting Release 2014.2), but we've run into a snag where an employee's pay, EI, and CPP used to be tracked in accounts separate from that of other workers (for reporting to the board), and the employee's paycheques had their own project allocation, but in April or May 2013, it started lumping in their pay, EI, and CPP expenses in with other employees, despite still showing it as being its own project. The linked accounts feature doesn't seem to want to let us track their CPP and EI in different accounts moving forward. I've done some sleuthing and I think a Simply update at that time dropped that feature from the Pro edition and now it's a matter of upgrading to Premium to have that feature (the entries before the change have a "made with Simply 2012 or earlier" popup). Can anyone confirm that?

Apparent options:

a) Keep the employee in a separate simply file using a separate bank account (employee already has their own unused bank account, and have their own revenue and expenses that are already tracked separately, so this seems the best option to us)

b) Move the amounts in the general journal at month end for reporting to the board

c) Spend the extra money to get Premium and hope the 'payroll expense groups' solve all of these problems (this would be our sole reason to upgrade)

d) Spend $100+ calling in the auditors hoping they have an easy fix (I already know many of them aren't super knowledgeable about Simply/Sage)