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Unexpected results when updating payroll
Not sure if something odd is happening here, or if I've misunderstood something.
I'm experimenting with the Payroll section. I want to generate payslips for myself (sole company director.) I set the Payroll start date to 27/01/09 (which was the first salary payment I made to myself), and Total Gross Pay to the total salary I've paid myself (so only a single payment so far as it's 24th at the time of writing). I've set my Directorship Start Date to 11/11/08 (when the company was incorporated).
Now - when I select 'Create Payslips', FAC generates rows dated 01 Jan 09, 27 Jan 09, 27 Feb 09 and 27 Mar 09. The first payslip has the amount I entered in Total Gross Pay in the setup screen as Net Pay. The next three payslips show an amount equal to Total Gross Pay divided by three; so the total at the bottom is actually twice the gross pay I'd entered on the setup screen.
I'd expected to get a single payslip dated 27 Jan containing the amount I'd entered on the setup screen.
Furthermore, if I then click on 'Set up payroll' again, the information is different to what I entered: the payroll start date has been set to 01 Jan, the total gross pay to twice what I'd specified (oddly plus a penny), and the directorship start date has gone.
What's going on here? Is there a problem, or is my understanding of what's meant to happen incorrect?
I'm experimenting with the Payroll section. I want to generate payslips for myself (sole company director.) I set the Payroll start date to 27/01/09 (which was the first salary payment I made to myself), and Total Gross Pay to the total salary I've paid myself (so only a single payment so far as it's 24th at the time of writing). I've set my Directorship Start Date to 11/11/08 (when the company was incorporated).
Now - when I select 'Create Payslips', FAC generates rows dated 01 Jan 09, 27 Jan 09, 27 Feb 09 and 27 Mar 09. The first payslip has the amount I entered in Total Gross Pay in the setup screen as Net Pay. The next three payslips show an amount equal to Total Gross Pay divided by three; so the total at the bottom is actually twice the gross pay I'd entered on the setup screen.
I'd expected to get a single payslip dated 27 Jan containing the amount I'd entered on the setup screen.
Furthermore, if I then click on 'Set up payroll' again, the information is different to what I entered: the payroll start date has been set to 01 Jan, the total gross pay to twice what I'd specified (oddly plus a penny), and the directorship start date has gone.
What's going on here? Is there a problem, or is my understanding of what's meant to happen incorrect?
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Inappropriate?Dan,
Hmm, thanks for letting us know. We'll have a go at reproducing that from here and try to work out what's going on.
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Inappropriate?Dan,
Could it be that - as part of your experiments - you already had that 1 Jan 09 payslip in there?
We allow in-year updates to be made to the payroll (to reflect tax code changes etc) so the 'Set Up Payroll' action only removes existing payslips dated on or after the new start date. Of course the existing payslip is taken into account when working out tax/NI so the result could be slightly odd.
(The Set Up Payroll screen also takes its cue from the first payslip in the payroll if one exists, hence the numbers that were in there second time round).
May I suggest you delete that existing payslip (click on the row to show the payslip itself and then click 'Delete') and then set up your Payroll once more?
Do let me know how you get on...we could certainly explain the behaviour of that action better...
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Inappropriate?Hi Ed,
Ahh... Yes, I could well have had that 1 Jan payslip there from earlier experimentation. OK, that explains it. I read the help text "Note that this will overwrite any existing payslips you have created for that year" and assumed that *all* payslips would be removed; the significance of 'that year' and how it related to the start date didn't sink in!
I think I was also surprised to see payslips generated to the end of the tax year, rather than to date. (I'm sure that's probably normal, but I'm new to this.) Assuming that's intentional, perhaps that could be made a little clearer.
So - now, I've cleared out the existing payslips, entered 3xmonthly salary as gross (as there will be three payments until the end of the financial year), all the other dates as before, and everything now looks good - it's generated payslips up to and including 27 March.
Thanks for your rapid response!
Dan
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