Chapter 5: Paying Employees
In This Chapter
Setting up do-it-yourself or Basic Payroll
Paying employees
Editing and voiding checks
Paying payroll liabilities
QuickBooks provides three do-it-yourself options for paying employees: Basic Payroll (which usually means your accountant helps you with the payroll tax forms), Enhanced Payroll (which means QuickBooks helps you with the payroll tax forms), and don’t-you-worry-Intuit-does-everything Full Service Payroll. This chapter describes the Basic Payroll option. With the Basic Payroll option, you do most of the work yourself, but you don’t pay very much for your payroll processing.
Would you be terribly offended if I offered you a bit of friendly advice? If you’re not an accountant, spend the money on Intuit’s Full Service Payroll option or on one of the equivalent full-service payroll providers such as ADP or Paychex. Having Intuit or ADP or Paychex do your payroll greatly simplifies your payroll accounting work and — in my experience ...
