Sage 50 Canada

1. An employee was given a cheque $178.56... as an advance that will come off of his next paycheck. I minus deductions from $184.00 to find $178.56 and write a cheque out manually from our cheque book. Was I right to minus deductions on this advance?…

I am getting ready to submit my T4's Electronically and have a question. I have done my T4 Summary and on the summary I have added "other payments" for various reason so my Difference in the End is Zero. After you print this form showing all of the details…

Hi, I have a question about payroll. I haven't yet closed 2016. The pay period carries over from 2016 to 2017. I am wondering if I enter payroll before closing 2016 or after I start the new year, 2017? Any help would be appreciated :)

Taking over a client who entered payroll in GJ from the online CRA payroll calculator. The journal entries have wrong calculations (for income tax) and one employee was CPP maxed but she continued to post/deduct. When I am re-entering the information…

This is so disappointing to me what Sage has done with the Payroll Module. I will have a very hard time recommending Sage to my clients, I have my own business in bookkeeping and have many clients who ask me who they should use for an accounting program…

I have been doing payroll for my father's business for 2 years. My brother and sister also work here along with other regular employees. I have been deducting EI from my sister, brother and my paycheques since Jan 1, 2014. How can I amend a T4 to change…

Richard S. Ridings suggested we could pay employees through purchase invoices. Can someone please show me the exact way to enter the details in a purchase invoice? I think I know what to do, but would like some reassurance that I'm doing it correctly…

I have a client for whom his accountant processed a bonus payable from the last fiscal year (ending Oct 1st 2015). His entry was to CR bonus payable and DB wages and salaries. This ends up showing the wages in last fiscal year. However, the bonus is not…

I have an employee who moved to Ontario from Quebec last year - now Sage is telling me I need to produce separate T4s for CPP / QPP Has anyone done this before?

WCB rate got changed during the year. The WCB payable account now shows $21 more then actual liability, which I've calculated based on the current rate. Did not realize it until now when verified it with WCB. How can I adjust the WCB payable account to…

I have started a new year for 2016, performed the back-up and all necessary aspects but when I entered payroll cheques all retained vacation pay was at $0.00. There is retained vacation pay earned by a number of employees, how do I carry it over from…

Hello, At this situation, how do I set up for the employee benefit? The benefits is a health care plan. Employee contribution is $20. Employer contribution is $40. Thanks, Kaz

Hi, I am at year end. I ran the data integrity check & it showed an imbalance in Vac. owed. We actually pay out vac with every pay check, so this is not owing. I need to clear this up. My main problem is the Vacation Payable account has a 0.00 balance…

When I set up a casual employee in payroll, I forgot to put the percentage amount in for their vacation pay. We then owed them vacation for two pay periods so, on the next pay period, I entered the correct percentage in the settings and changed them from…

IN DOING A PAYMENT FOR MY SOURCE DEDUCTIONS IT SHOWS THE PAYMENT ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNTS AS FOLLOWS.....CPP-CPP EXPENSE EI- EI EXPENSE BUT FOR TAX IT SHOWS PETTY CASH IS THIS CORRECT?

I need to find a report that shows what to calculate stat pay on. The only report I can find gives me total GROSS but that includes sick days paid as well as previous stat day paid, I don't believe I include these amounts when calculating what the employee…

Hi all, Just finished submitting my payroll info for direct deposit, and noticed an error when doing my reports. I deducted too much for union dues from one employee. I contacted the union, and they said to forward them the correct amount, and make…

ER account number was input incorrectly. How can I correct the error in SAGE? I have tried changing the business number but that does not change the RP#. Any help would be appreciated

I am using the payroll cheque run and on 3 separate dates at least one employee had 2 identical cheques for the same date but with different cheque numbers posted. Only one printed but I had to back out one cheque. I don't want to see an employee dinged…

I added a new employee on Sage and i am wondering how to set it up so that amount input on Vacation earned will automatically populate Vacation paid. Right now i type in the amount on both earned and paid - on the older employees i only need to input…