I have been making good use of the excellent advice on here for a while now and thought it best I intodruce myself before asking for help! I'm currently working as a bookkeeping/accounts person for a couple of small restaurants and studying for my IAB L3 Computerised Bookeeping which I am sitting in June. I worked in a bookeeping role about 10 years ago before leaving to manage a bookmakers where I stayed until the birth of my daughter. Realising I missed bookkeeping I decided to re-train and return to bookkeeping so last year I sat my IAB L1&2 Compuertised bookkeping with IAB. Hopefully, if I can pass my L3, I would like to move onto a payroll course.
My problem is we are changing our payroll from weekly to monthly and changing from Iris to 12pay. I'm not sure if it's the change of software, the payroll frequency or with the introduction of RTI but I am struggling to work out this transition. Our last payroll was run on 05/04/13 which included all hours worked up until 31/03/2013 as everyone works a lie week. My boss would like the payroll run on the 20th of each month to include all hours worked up until the 20th with estimated figures for the final day, which would then be deducted the following month. The actual pay date is to be the 21st or roundabout, bearing in mind we pay via instant transfer so this has to be input manually. Surely there must be a simpler way? Most employees are paid hourly but there are a few on salaries. As the employees expect to be paid around the 2/3rd week of April I had thought about advancing wages in the 2nd week of April and running the payroll as a full calendar month with the remainder paid at the end of April to ease the change over.
I am trying to figure out the easiest dates to change from weekly to monthly but I'm not sure if I can't see the woods for the trees as I'm currently in the middle of the year end accounts for both companies and payroll year ends but any advice would be very, very gratefully received!
