User Guide
Lesson VI—Payroll
Beginning the Lesson
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Lesson VI—Payroll
In this lesson, you’ll learn about processing payroll with Peachtree
Accounting.
You will learn how to:
• Store constant information about standard payroll fields and
payment methods in Default Information and in the Maintain
Employee file
• Enter paychecks
• Run a Payroll Register report to verify payroll entries
• Print payroll checks
• Analyze employee earnings
In this lesson, we’re also going to see how Default Information fits into the
flow of tasks in Peachtree Accounting.
Estimated Lesson Time: 30 Minutes
Beginning the Lesson
If you are continuing from Lesson V, skip this section and proceed with the
lesson.
If you are just starting the lesson, do the following:
1 Start Peachtree Accounting and open up the sample company, Bellwether
Garden Supply.
2 If the Action Items window appears, close it for right now.
3 From the Options menu, select Global. Peachtree displays the Maintain
Global Options window.
You need to make sure that the tutorial global options are set up
properly.
4 In the Accounting tab, do the following:
• Select Manual Decimal Entry and 2 as the number of decimal places.
• Clear the Hide General Ledger Accounts option for all modules
(Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Payroll).
• Select the “Recalculate cash balance automatically in Receipts and
Payments” option.
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