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What is payroll accounting? | FAQs
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One of the most important factors in your business administration process is ensuring that your workers are paid the correct amount, on time. For any business owner this is imperative if you want your organisation to succeed.
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Payroll accountants’ responsibilities include:
- Approving and delivering gross wages, salaries, bonuses, commissions, and so on that have been earned by employees
- Withholding of taxes such as income tax and state-administered funds
- Withholding of employee contributions to health insurance and savings plans
- Adding employers’ contributions to employee fringe benefits such as health and dental insurance, paid holidays, vacations and sick days, pension and savings plan contributions and worker compensation insurance
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Transcription:
Payroll accounting is basically recording the transactions for paying your staff. So if a business has employees or staff they need to generally pay them if they want to keep them and to be able to do that, there is necessarily some recording which needs to be done when you are actually paying them. The payroll accounting is tracking things like salaries and wages, taxes and deductions, which need to come off of that as well and making sure that employees are being paid the correct amount at the end of every month, and that that’s being recorded correctly for the business’s bookkeeping and accounting purposes.