Syllabus for CPD - Computerised Payroll using BrightPay

• Installing, setting up, configuring and using it to produce accurate, comprehensive reports from a range of payroll scenarios encountered in a business of up to 10 employees.
• Setting up the details of a new business including appropriate company and existing employee details. Some existing or new employees may be directors who undertake to have their NI deducted using different methods or employees who work irregular hours. Enter and process payroll for a variety of different pay periods and produce reports detailing gross pay, deductions and net pay for each period
• Periodic back-ups of payroll-related information.
• Produce summary reports
• Deal with new employees, and employees leaving
• Carry out or simulate a month end procedure under RTI and produce a number of required reports including potential adjustments resulting from CIS deductions and any other recoverable amounts. Note: under the new RTI scheme it is impossible to produce the month end information unless you are using a live business. Be prepared to be able to show what information would be submitted or to explain how this would work

• Making advance payment of holiday pay to an employee
• Making a bonus payment to a defined range of employees
• Configuring an attachment of earnings
• Setting up a pension scheme for a range of employees.
• Making Statutory payments for Sickness, Maternity, Paternity, Adoption
• Processing a change to an employee’s tax code or basis under which a tax code operates
• Configuring deductions of student loan repayments