Changing payroll categories

Occasionally, you'll find it necessary to make a change to a payroll category.

Warning: Changing payroll categories affects all employees who are assigned those payroll categories

Keep in mind that when you change a payroll category, you change the payroll category for all employees who are assigned that payroll category. Most likely, the employees' paycheck amounts will be different after you change their payroll categories. You may find it easier to create a new pay category and assign it to the affected employees, rather than change an existing category.

You can change any accrual, employer expense or deduction in the AccountEdge system. You can also change any wage, except the Base Salary and Base Hourly wages.

Accounts are linked to payroll categories so all payroll-related amounts can be tracked properly. Default payroll linked accounts are assigned automatically when you set up Payroll, so you may not need to change them. If you want to change an individual wage, deduction, accrual or employer expense's linked account, you can.

You can have only one wage expense account for each employee; you can change the account using the Employee Payroll Information window for that employee.

Since the accuracy of your payroll records is at stake, you can't add, change or delete any payroll taxes from MYOB AccountEdge's tax tables. You can, however, change the account that you want to use to track the payroll taxes that you withhold from paychecks.