Employees & Payroll Reports - Statement of Payments Report

Question

In accord with the changes in STP 2 reporting, my annual leave and personal leave payments (and some other similar types) were set up as Leave - Other Paid Leave (O) which represents the nominated tax tracking type.  Various other leave payments have another tax tracking type, depending on specific forms of leave paid.

I have never used the report for Employees "Statement of Payments Report" until tonight.  In running the report, I note that whilst it includes amounts for Gross Payments and Allowances, it does not include any amounts for any type of leave payments.  As such, it seems that this report  is of no apparent use in endeavouring to gain a record of the amount of payments made to any employee.  Is there a reason why this type of report is being truncated with the information provided?

Acctd4 · Answer

﻿Agreed … Don’t think I’ve ever used that report but maybe Reckon can remove it if it’s incomplete ? (Not sure if that’s possible though 😬)

John Graetz · Answer

Hi Shaz.  As you mentioned, I am aware of other means of getting the correct information, which I have used in the past.  My reason in raising this was to point out that the information that might expect to be revealed is total deficient.  And on that basis, what purpose does it serve to have this report available in the first place when it doesn't seem to serve any purpose at all.

Acctd4 · Answer

Hi @John Graetz

Hmm … I see what you mean in that it only reports certain gross Payroll Item amounts 🤔  If you add the Credit column, that one shows the Paycheque net amount, but adding the other amount columns doesn't display much either.

This isn't anything to do with STP though - The default reports are the original, Intuit QuickBooks ones (from the 80s) so maybe that particular report was only very basic & was never developed further, once payroll features were expanded within the program ?

To report on all payments to an employee, I either use the Payroll Summary &/or drilldown or I create my own custom one from a Find 😊