Payg Withholding and wages account

Sue Kemp

Hi sorry if this is a stupid question as I am new to this STP reporting, but I have processed pays for this month through STP and all have been successful.  When I go into my list of accounts and pull up the PAYG withholding account and the wages account there is nothing in there for this fin year.  Am I missing a step that transfers the data.  Previously I did a general journal to wages and PAYG withholding to record the pays, but didn't think I had to do this since upgrading the software and paying employees through the employee center.  Thanks Sue

Linda ABC

Sounds like your payroll items are incorrectly setup... if they are correct they would have put the super and payg into the correct liability accounts... go to your List menu - choose Payroll Items - check the settings for PAYG withholding and all super items and make sure they are pointing to the correct accounts - if they arent - change this and then the transactions will update themselves. 

Sue Kemp

Thanks Linda, I have changed the accounts and now the PAYG Witholding and Super are fine.  Can you explain why I can't see any transactions in wages account when I go into List - Chart of Accounts - Wages - thx Sue

Linda ABC

Check those payroll items too? Where are they linked to?

Sue Kemp

Thank you so much Linda I finally found it under Payroll Expenses .  Can I ask you another questions I have set up a item called Overtime 1.5 and Overtime 2 and when doing pays I enter the overtime hours in and it comes up stating they don't have time owing (treating it like annual leave).  it still allows me to do it but on their pay slips it shows negative hours (doesn't affect their pay amount).   I've checked the set up and I haven't ticked the accrual box not sure how to fix it - thx sue

Linda ABC