http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com by Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:31:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2012/02/01/certified-payroll-reports-bi-weekly-paychecks/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2012/02/01/certified-payroll-reports-bi-weekly-paychecks/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:06:20 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=2976 Creating weekly certified payroll reports from a bi-weekly paycheck can be difficult unless your accounting software accurately accrues the wages for each week.

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]]> http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/12/13/prevailing-wage-projects-and-your-construction-company/feed/ 0 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/07/18/quickbooks-payroll-tip-wage-underpayments-wage-restitution/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/07/18/quickbooks-payroll-tip-wage-underpayments-wage-restitution/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:56:13 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=2408 In today's busy workplace, business owners and payroll administrators are faced with numerous challenges which sometimes result in employee wage underpayments. Often times a wage underpayment isn't discovered until after paychecks have been created and cashed; which then requires wage restitution to the employee.

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]]> http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/07/06/5-certified-paroll-reporting-mistakes-how-to-avoid-them/feed/ 0 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/05/25/the-benefits-of-paying-prevailing-wage-fringes-to-a-bona-fide-plan/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/05/25/the-benefits-of-paying-prevailing-wage-fringes-to-a-bona-fide-plan/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 13:01:17 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=2199 The benefits of paying the Prevailing Wage Fringe Benefit portion to bona-fide plan is often misunderstood by employers and employees alike. Prevailing wage jobs, those jobs that are subject to the Davis-Bacon Act and/or State Prevailing Wage Laws, require that all laborers and mechanics {including tradesmen such as carpenters, equipment operators, painters, pipefitters, plumbers, etc.) [...]

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]]> http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2011/01/13/payroll-tip-davis-bacon-wages-holiday-pay/feed/ 0 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/12/10/free-quickbooks-ebooks-freebie-friday/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/12/10/free-quickbooks-ebooks-freebie-friday/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:46:03 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=1344 A list of the current QuickBooks related eBooks that we have available - I do have several new ebooks that are ready to go, but you'll have to wait until after the first of the year in order to have access to them.

]]> http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/12/10/free-quickbooks-ebooks-freebie-friday/feed/ 4 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/12/06/prevailing-wage-fringes-taking-a-credit-for-health-insurance/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/12/06/prevailing-wage-fringes-taking-a-credit-for-health-insurance/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:00:38 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=1319 Taking a Health Insurance credit against the full prevailing wage fringe benefit and reporting it correctly on the Federal WH-347 Certified Payroll Report can be very confusing.

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]]> http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/07/23/frequently-asked-questions-california-prevailing-wage/feed/ 0 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/07/12/calculating-displaying-fringe-benefits-on-a-certified-payroll-report/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/07/12/calculating-displaying-fringe-benefits-on-a-certified-payroll-report/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:00:51 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=781 In recent months, I have repeatedly seen posts from QuickBooks users on the Intuit Community Forums asking how the fringe benefit rate is calculated and then displayed on the Certified Payroll Report in Excel, which is now a standard function of QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise when used in conjunction with Enhanced Payroll, and I really haven’t seen any good responses.

]]> http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/07/12/calculating-displaying-fringe-benefits-on-a-certified-payroll-report/feed/ 1 http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/07/02/the-history-of-prevailing-wage/ http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/2010/07/02/the-history-of-prevailing-wage/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:00:57 +0000 Nancy Smyth http://blog.sunburstsoftwaresolutions.com/?p=752 Bacon, a former banker, explained the need for the law when he detailed for his legislative colleagues how an out-of-state construction firm paying extremely low wages transported thousands of unskilled workers hundreds of miles to toil on a public project in New York - “They were herded onto this job, they were housed in shacks, they were paid a very low wage, and ...

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