Accountant's Assistant Handbook

CBS PayCheck setup  
If your client will be producing calculating payroll checks in CBS, 
complete the following steps to set up employees in CBS PayCheck. 
Personal data for each employee, PayCheck items for earnings, 
withholdings, all deductions, and payroll account numbers transfer over 
from your CSA files, if you selected those items when preparing the 
accountant’s transfer file in Accountant’s Assistant. 
1. Choose 
Setup / PayCheck Employees or click the Employees 
 
icon on the PayCheck shortcut bar, and check the following 
information. 
2.  Confirm that each employee’s information is correct on the General, 
Personal, Departments, and Employer Expenses tabs. Finish filling in 
any additional information that did not transfer from CSA.  
 

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3. Click 
the 
Benefits tab and enter the required information for 
beginning balance, year-to-date amount accrued, and year-to-date 
amount used (all amounts are in hours) for each benefit accrual. If 
necessary, change the default settings for method, allowance, and 
limit defaults inherited from the employee template.  
 

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4. Click 
the 
Earnings tab and open the Additional Employee-Level Pay 
Item Information dialog for each PayCheck item by clicking the 
Details 
 button for each item. Review and complete the general 
ledger account number for the PayCheck item and also the wage 
information fields (including the wage type, rate, and frequency).  
 
Note that you can select a different pay frequency for each PayCheck 
item (for example, a weekly or hourly PayCheck item and a quarterly 
bonus PayCheck item). If the wage type is Use of Accrual, you must 
select the appropriate benefit accrual. 

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