This registry entry controls how various items are handled in the Compute Payroll function.
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Setting Values are Uppercase-Lowercase Sensitive:
The Setting Value is case-sensitive: be sure that you enter the value exactly as specified in the documentation. If the documentation specifies a value of true, do NOT enter True or TRUE.
See Compute Overtime - No Checks Printed or Posted for details/additional registries for computing overtime when checks will not be generated.
Id: sys-compute-payroll
See the Standard Registry section in Registry Viewer for additional Registry Id formats to allow entries for specific Users, Branches, Security, or User Groups to override the main entry.
This registry option should be implemented to enable taxable fringe benefits to be included as wages for the purpose of computing wage-based deductions.
Setting Key: PercentDeductionsIncludeTaxableFringes Setting Value: true
This release implements registry-controlled refinements for the Earnings record's Taxable flag. This lets you specify that tax for certain specified Authorities or Groups should NOT be assessed for a Taxable fringe. The User1 and User2 fields of the Earnings Record are used to specify which taxes to exclude. The following registries are required to enable this functionality.
Id: sys-compute-payroll
Setting Key: FringeTaxExceptionUser1 Setting Value: TaxAuthorityId
Setting Key: FringeTaxExceptionUser2 Setting Value: TaxTableId
(Note: the Setting Values of TaxTableId or TaxAuthorityId can be used with either of the above setting keys.)
If either or both of these registries are enabled, Compute Payroll checks the User 1 and/or User 2 fields of the Earnings Record to see if there are any Taxable Fringes should NOT be taxed by the listed Tax Authorities or Tax Tables. Note that this ONLY works for Tax Tables specified as 'Always Withhold' on the Employee's taxes tab.
Earnings Record: Earnings User1 - Earnings User2
These fields may be used to specify a list of Tax Groups or Tax Authorities for which tax should NOT be assessed if enabled via the above registry setting:
If the Earning Record is of Type Fringe, with the Taxable box checked AND
The FringeTaxExceptionsUser1 or FringeTaxExceptionsUser2 registries are set AND
The Tax Table is specified as 'Always Withhold' on the Employee's taxes tab.
When implemented, this registry option results in the employee's gross wages being reduced by the amount of any Section 125 deductions before applying the 401k deduction percentage. This registry entry is recommended for firms using the Report PR 401(k) Reporting for John Hancock; see Registry Entry PR 401(k) for additional registry settings.
Setting Key: 401KGrossLess125Deductions Setting Value: true
This logic is also applied to the calculation of the Match column on the 401(k) Report.
In versions prior to 6.1, the employee pay rate was replaced by the earnings group rate when an earnings group was designated. A change was made to accommodate the situation where an employee could have a base rate and the earnings group could be used to add a premium ON TOP of that base employee rate. This registry option should be implemented in order to implement this ‘premium’ where the earnings group is added to the base rate. By default, the earnings group, if present, will override the base rate.
Setting Key: CombineEmployeeAndGroupPayRates Setting Value: true
NOTE: the combined rates concept applies to the hourly job cost rate as well as the pay rate.
This entry implements the optional use of the Job Cost Category GL Expense Account as a Wage Expense Account for Payroll purposes.
Setting Key: WageExpenseAccountFromCostCategory Setting Value: true
If this option is implemented, the GL Entity (typically specified in the Tax Authority record) will be ignored for PR Tax liabilities written when the Compute Payroll function is run. Note that the GL Entity will still be written to the PR Tax Expense entry when payroll is computed.
Setting Key: PRTaxLiabilityNoEntity Setting Value: true
This release supports is an enhancement to the concept of posting allocated P/R taxes, fringes, etc. at the time check posting with the addition to the JobCostPR Checks box to the Earnings viewer. Prior to this change, the resulting JCH entries had no description. This change allows specification of descriptions for the different types allocated P/R expenses.
Setting Key: AllocatedFringesDescription Setting Value: description for JCH
Setting Key: AllocatedTaxesDescription Setting Value: description for JC
Setting Key: AllocatedWorkersCompDescription Setting Value: description for JCH
Setting Key: AllocatedLiabilityInsuranceDescription Setting Value: description for JCH
The AllocatedTaxesDescription also supports a replacement token that can include the Tax Table Id in the description. An example is ... PR Taxes ^TableId^
Note that the ^TableId^ token is case-sensitive.
This option allows the allocated PR expenses to be associated with original JCH cost categories but using a different GL Expense Debit account. This overrides the Cost Category G/L Expense Account found in the Job Cost Category. This registry entry should be used with caution as it lumps all PR Expenses into one GL Account.
Setting Key: PRExpenseAccount Setting Value: Gl Account Id
Setting Key: PTOAccruedHoursExceeded Setting Value: option (default is warning)
Setting Key: PTOAccruedEarningsExceeded Setting Value: option (default is ignore)
These options enable you to control how that system will handle it when Compute Payroll encounters a negative PTO situation either in terms of Hours or Dollars Exceeded.
The error option will result in an error being written to payroll history; you will not be able to print a pay check (or direct deposit advice) for that employee until the problem is corrected and Compute Payroll rerun.
The warning option will result in a warning being written to payroll history that will appear on the Payroll Worksheet, but will not prevent the employee from being paid.
The ignore option enables the payroll to be paid, and does not record any message of this situation to payroll history.
Id: sys-report-rprchck
Setting Key: ShowPTOAvailableAs Setting Value: hours or dollars (default = hours)
This registry setting changes the ‘PTO Available’ that appears on the Recap portion of the check stub from hours to a dollar amount for PTO Pay Types whose Check Label field includes a dollar sign.
Pay Type:
New Functionality: Check Label
If the sys-report-rprchck registry ShowPTOAvailableAs=dollars is implemented, the Check Label field MUST include a dollar sign ($) to define which PTO Pay Types will be displayed as a dollar amount on the ‘PTO Available’ section of the Recap portion of the check stub.
Example:
Suppose that you want your employee’s available sick time to appear as dollars, management sick time to appear as hours, and all vacation time to appear as hours.
Emp. Sick Time Pay Type Check Label: Sick $
Mgr. Sick Time Pay Type Check Label: Sick Hours
Vacation Time Pay Type Check Label: Vac. Hours
The option to compute accrued vacation as a percentage of wages was implemented version 7.3. the Employee Paid Time Off tab is used to define the applicable Pay Types/Percent to be accrued. This release extends that work to include a registry-enabled GL interface for accrued pay (typically Vacation in Canada). The following options may be enabled to generate the appropriate GL entries when Compute Payroll is run.
Registry Id: sys-compute-payroll
Note: The GL account in the pay type record(s) for Vacation pay should be set to debit the Accrual Liability account when Vacation hours are used.
Setting Key: PostVacationEarningsAccruedToGL Setting Value: true
Setting Key: AccruedVacationExpenseAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
Setting Key: AccruedVacationAccrualAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
The functionality for accrued vacation pay is also available for Sick, Holiday and Other Pay Types should it be needed.
Note: The GL account in the pay type records for Sick,Holiday & Other should be set to debit the Accrual Liability accounts when Sick,Holiday & Other hours are used.
Setting Key: PostSickEarningsAccruedToGL Setting Value: true
Setting Key: AccruedSickExpenseAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
Setting Key: AccruedSickAccrualAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
Setting Key: PostHolidayEarningsAccruedToGL Setting Value: true
Setting Key: AccruedHolidayExpenseAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
Setting Key: AccruedHolidayAccrualAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
Setting Key: PostOtherEarningsAccruedToGL Setting Value: true
Setting Key: AccruedOtherExpenseAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
Setting Key: AccruedOtherAccrualAccount Setting Value: glaccountid
See Registry Start Compute Overtime for additional required registry settings.
Id: sys-compute-payroll
Setting Key: AllocateOTPremium Setting Value: true
This entry is required to enable distribution of the OT Premium to the various non-overhead jobs when Compute Payroll is run.
Setting Key: AllocatedOTPremiumDescription Setting Value: Allocated OT Premium
This registry specifies the description used by the system when the overhead premium is distributed by Compute Payroll.