It’s 4:47 PM on Wednesday. Payroll processing starts tomorrow morning for twelve clients. Nine have submitted their information. One sent a spreadsheet with last week’s hours but nothing about...
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A client sends over three employee address changes at 4:47 on a Friday. Then a termination notice Monday morning, with an ROE needed “as soon as possible.” By Wednesday...
Last January, I migrated a 14-client accounting practice off a legacy payroll system that hadn’t updated its CPP2 calculations in time for the new contribution ceiling. The first pay...
Processing payroll for five clients is manageable. You know each client’s pay schedule, you remember which employees have special deductions, and you can keep it all in your head...
Last year, I helped a 45-employee manufacturing company in Ontario migrate off Payworks. Not because Payworks was broken — it wasn’t. Their payroll ran fine. But they’d opened a...
A signed contract sits on your desk. It reads “Independent Contractor Agreement” in bold across the top. The worker invoices monthly, sets their own hours, and has their own...
I spent three hours once tracking down a $212 discrepancy between a client’s payroll liability account and their CRA remittance history. Turned out someone had manually adjusted an EI...
It’s 11:47 PM on a Tuesday in January. You’re staring at a payroll remittance summary that doesn’t balance, and somewhere between the Canada Pension Plan deduction column and the...
👉 Real Accounting Scenario: A client’s bookkeeper once spent three hours tracing a $2,000 discrepancy between their payroll summary and general ledger. The cause? A part-time employee’s CPP deductions...