Payroll Management Guardian Academy
Price: USD 13
USD 140
  • Duration: Upto 4 Hours

Course details

What you'll learn
  • By the end of the course you will be able to complete various common functions using a free online UK payroll software
  • Process new starters and leavers
  • Understand tax coding notifications and what different tax codes means
  • Process monthly pay
  • Understand how pensions are applied
  • Process deductions taxes, student loan repayments
  • Process attachments of earnings (AOE) such as court fines repayments
  • Know the payroll journals and relevant accounts to debit and credit
  • Pay the HMRC and other relevant authorities and agencies
  • Year end processing
  • How to register as an employer in the UK
This Payroll course is all about payroll management, how to calculate the payroll and general overall understanding about what payroll is and the legal requirements in place, the forms, the deadlines, the process and procedures. We look at different software so that you can understand the functionality - and how to perform calculations. We give you the overall picture that you as a Payroll Manager would need to know, in order to be proficient in doing the payroll.

There is a practical scenario assignment. There are various tasks to complete. You are given the task to do and have a go at, and then the video answer is available. It is suggested that you:
  • Read the task
  • Watch the video
  • Have a go at it yourself on your own system (we give you the links to access the payroll software for free)
Rewatch the video (if necessary) - to reinforce the learning

You'll learn how to become an employer, how to set up a new starter (employee), how to enter opening balances if they've given you a p45 from a previous employer, how to run payroll for various time slots - weekly, fortnightly, 4 weekly or monthly, how to calculate the net and gross, various terminology such as gross, net, NI, PAYE, cut off days, wages, salary, attachment of earnings, ;

We cover the rules of being an employer, how to set up to become an employer and the various governing bodies that you should be aware of - particularly the HMRC, the Student Loans company and the Pensions Regular. We look at when and how everyone should be paid and the penalties for missing ;The various forms to fill in and what type of information you should collect from everyone upon starting with your organisation and what to give them when they leave. We look at how to integrate the payroll with other functions - such as your accounting software, the reports to run and keep, the journal entries and what is going on behind the scenes and the true cost of employing people amongst over things.

We look at regular payments such as wages, and discretionary payments such as bonuses and commissions. We look at how to calculate sick pay and the difference between gross pay, net pay, take home pay, and employers national insurance NI and employees NI and employers pension contribution vs employee pension contribution.
This is a useful course if:
  • You are thinking of employing people
  • You are going to take responsibility for getting the wages right
  • You are going for jobs which have a requirement for you to be able to know payroll and use payroll software
  • You want to put this skill on your CV
  • You are a bookkeeper or accountant and will be offering payroll services
  • You run your own business and want to know how to run the payroll for yourself.
Updated on 03 November, 2021

Eligibility / Requirements

No. We'll give you the free links to get the free trial version of any payroll software that we use in our assignments

About Guardian Academy

Guardian Academy is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Since 2020, Guardian Academy brings together diversified areas of knowledge and has a privileged position for facilitating the contemporary evolution of distance learning. Our quality of e-learning and e-teaching is attracting an ever-increasing amount of learners from around the globe.  We provide Instructor-led online self-paced audiovisual courses.

We are always promised to provide an interactive, effective and affordable distance learning facility through our e-Learning platform. Our online courses are designed to assist you to step up your career, build a better skill set, and, most importantly, gain the necessary knowledge to excel in that specific subject matter. We are a team of leading industry experts, academicians, researchers and freelance educators. Our goal is to help the sophophiles, epistemofiles and businesses to empower themselves through optimum knowledge and skill.

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