Starting Payroll Files

To start a new year:

The MacNail construction accounting software automatically creates new payroll files for a new year. You may want to move all payroll files from the previous year into an archives folder.

NOTE-- Our newer Goldenseal construction accounting software is much easier to use! You don't need to do anything special, at the beginning of each year.

To start in the middle of a year:

If you start using MacNail Payroll in the middle of a year, it will be much more difficult to use the automatic updating of payroll files. You can take any of the following actions:
1. Generate a Labor Log starting at the first of the year, and make a Labor Report for each payroll period using a typed-in date range. Then make a Payroll Report for each period and update payroll files from it.
2. Start making Payroll Reports in the middle of the year, and adjust FICA, FUTA, SUTA and Disability deductions by hand as they pass the maximum limits.
3. Start making Payroll Reports in the middle of the year, and adjust the first line of each Payroll file to include total year to date wages and deductions.