Every payroll specialist, office administrator, HR professional, and business owner should know the basics of payroll. Whether you do payroll in house or pay a third party professional, you need to know how your payroll is processed, the procedures that are followed and why they were created. And ultimately,  the business owner assumes all the responsibility for any errors and mistakes that are made, and as ignorance is not a defense, not understanding the nuts and bolts of payroll is not a good business strategy. Employees’ primary reason for working is to get paid, and making sure you get their paycheck right each and every payroll is imperative to your employee’s morale as well as your company’s financials.
At the end of this session you will be able to:

Know the difference between Federal and State payroll requirements;
Know where to look for information regarding payroll;
Know what taxes and reporting requirements there are for payroll;
Understand paychecks and what they say.

About our presenter:
Janet Pluntz is Vice President of Payroll Solutions, Inc. She obtained her B A  in Business Administration from Eastern Washington University; her MBA from Texas A&M University, and is an E.A. (Enrolled Agent with the IRS). Janet’s career  began working for small business and soon learned that the language of business was finance and accounting. After several years, she went back to get her MBA and emphasized those disciplines. She worked for a Fortune 500 Oil Company on their Management Development program for 5 years  in Marketing, Finance, and Operations. In 2000, Janet came back to Seattle (one of the few natives left J) and opened an Accounting, Tax, and Payroll practice focused on helping small business. After four years, she joined Jessica Gholston, FPC, CPP at Payroll Solutions. Together they remade the accounting business into a payroll focused business with the mission to take the burden of payroll off the shoulders of their clients. Payroll Solutions, Inc. speaks fluent accounting and tax and they focus exclusively on payroll.