Payroll

Using Timesheets

Note: You can use timesheets for time billing purposes only if you're using MYOB Accounting Plus.

Timesheets are used to track employee hours for payroll and - for Accounting Plus only - time billing purposes for hourly employees.

If you like, you can use timesheets for salaried employees as well, primarily to keep timesheet records of their holiday and sick pay.

Whether or not you use timesheets is determined by marking or not marking the I Use Timesheets... preference in the System view of the Preferences window. Then how you use timesheets is determined by the choices you make in the preference and in the Payroll Details view - Recurring Pay of the employee's Card Information window.

• If you do not mark the preference to use timesheets, you cannot open the Enter Timesheets window.

• If you mark the preference to use timesheets, you can enter your hourly employees' hours in timesheets; they may be needed to calculate your employees' payroll.
  
  Timesheet use can affect hourly employees' pay and salaried employees' pay in very different ways. See How employee pay is calculated using timesheets to understand these differences.

• Accounting Plus only -- If you mark the preference and choose to use timesheets for time billing and payroll, you can enter your hourly employees' hours in timesheets; they may be needed to calculate your employees' payroll, as described above.
  
  Additionally:
  
  The hours you enter in an activity slip will appear in the timesheet (if you made that choice in the activity slip) and used for payroll.
  
  If you select an activity when you make a timesheet entry, an activity slip is automatically created.

Completed timesheets can then be used to pay your employees using the Process Payroll Assistant. (To make a timesheet entry)

Purging timesheets

You can purge timesheets that have already been used to pay employees. (Purging activity slips (Accounting Plus only) and Purging timesheets)

Note: When you purge a timesheet, the activity slips on the timesheet are also purged. (Accounting Plus only)

Importing/Exporting timesheets

Timesheets can be imported or exported. (Importing and exporting timesheets and activity slips)

Accounting Plus only -- Only entries not associated with an activity slip are included when you choose to import or export Timesheets. Activity slips, whether or not their hours appear on a timesheet, are included in the import or export of Activity Slips.

• Setup steps required to use timesheets for payroll

• How employee pay is calculated using timesheets

• Tips for using timesheets

• Including activity slips hours on timesheets (Accounting Plus only)

• Creating activity slips using timesheets (Accounting Plus only)

• Using Process Payroll

• Importing and exporting timesheets and activity slips (Accounting Plus only)

• Timesheets Fields for importing and exporting

• Purging activity slips (Accounting Plus only) and Purging timesheets