ATF: Life After Payroll

Accounting Technology,  December, 2006  by Antoinette Alexander

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After-the fact payroll isn't one of the hottest areas in software. Many firms offer it only as a convenience to clients, not as an active practice area. In fact, it's something of a program for companies that don't need to hire a professonal to process payroll, but who do want someone to check their work, says Bruce Andersen, owner of BTA Consulting & Training of Woodland Hills, Calif.

"We have businesses that pay the same people over and over again. They take their books out into the field and make payments and hope it is correct," he says. And then there are those who are truly competent to handle their own payroll. "We have two pharmacies who, over the years, thought they know how to do payroll and they do fine," he continues. BTA, which uses TaxTools from CFS Tax Software, checks the numbers as part of the its bookkeeping ...