Accord Payroll is a versatile payroll software package for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It has been built entirely on the Microsoft development platform and fully implements Microsoft application design methodology. Accord Payroll uses ODBC as the native data access interface and can access data kept on any database provided it has an ODBC driver. In particular, Accord Payroll version 1.5 works with Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server databases.
Accord Payroll supports every aspect of the payroll calculation cycle which includes hiring/resigning employees; entering /importing time sheets; calculation of payroll for employees with different employment agreements; printing payslips, forms and different reports; making automatic payments; automatic creations of General Ledger transactions; comprehensive handling of year end procedures including submission of the year end PAYE returns using the Internet.
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It supports all UK payroll requirements and procedures including support of all tax codes, national insurance table letters, directors NICs, spinal point tables and multi-currency support including the Euro. SMP automatic calculation procedures, net to gross calculation. It can process weekly, biweekly, monthly, four weekly, quarterly, half yearly and yearly payrolls. An employee payment frequency can be changed easily. Several payroll runs can also be processed during one period and paid into different employee bank accounts. Accord Payroll supports cash, cheque, BACS and Autopay payments. Accord Payroll Diary component allows user to maintain employee Notes and Tasks. Accord Payroll and the end of year Internet submission module have successfully passed the Inland Revenue payroll standard tests and are included on the Inland Revenue list of accredited payroll software products. Accord Payroll has also been awarded the Designed for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP logo. |
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Accord Payroll can handle an unlimited number of payments and/or deductions. A standard set of most often used payments and deductions is shipped with the product, however new payments and deductions can be created easily using the payments/deductions Wizard.
Accord Payroll calculation engine intrinsically uses Basic-like scripts to calculate the payments and deductions and advanced users can benefit from using the scripting language Workbench for modifying existing or creating new payment and deduction scripts. Each Accord Payroll company can have its own payroll calculation script program comprising all payroll specifics of the company or even country.
Scalability and Integration
Accord Payroll can be used for companies of all sizes: from a small office of under 50 employees to large operations with several thousand employees or payroll bureaux. For small companies Payroll Accord is usually installed on a standalone PC with Microsoft Access database. Large companies should take advantage of the Payroll Accord companies and/or employee groups, multi-processing and use a client/server RDBMS such as Microsoft SQL Server. Accord Payroll multi-processing feature allows the user to run parallel payroll calculations and printing from different workstations.
Accord Payroll has powerful online copy/paste and import/export interfaces with accounting systems, electronic banking systems, Windows spreadsheet applications, external files and third party HR, Recruitment, Time and Attendance and P11D software. It is integrated with leading UK HR and Recruitment software packages. Accord Timesheets module integrated with Accord Payroll and Accord sales Ledger creates solid foundation for global payroll and pay and charge systems.
Reporting Power and Audit
Each employee has up to 108 accumulators where to-date data is stored, up to 60 period accumulators to store period calculation results, statistics and payment history tables where all payroll and payment transactions are stored for as long as required. Accord Payroll features 3 levels of reporting tools:
- Includes a set of standard or predefined Crystal Reports and user reports and forms shipped with the product.
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Provides a powerful intrinsic WYSIWYG report designer
that can be used to modify standard user reports or create new ones. User
reports from Payroll statistics allow user to print any reports for previous
periods. In particular payslips, payment lists and summaries can be re-printed.
- In the event that additional reports that are not covered by the functionality of the first two reporting levels are required the user can take advantage of Accord’s open database architecture and use any third party reporting tools, e.g. Crystal Reports. Any reports developed in Crystal Reports can be attached to the Accord Payroll menu and can be printed from Accord Payroll.
Accord Payroll database server components log all important data changes and events. A series of standard as well as user definable report are available to audit data changes and events.
Accounting Power
Accord Payroll features comprehensive Payroll accounting. You can account for staff costs using up to 10 accounting segments: Accounts, Cost Centres, Projects/Clients, Resources, etc. In Accord Payroll you can easily split employee costs between cost centres on employee or payment level. Using Accord General Ledger in integration with Payroll module gives you a lot of additional benefits. In the General Ledger you can accumulate payroll transactions and balances, analyse them using numerous enquiries with drill down functionality and export the transactions to any other accounting system.
Easy to Use and User Friendly
Despite the versatility and flexibility Accord Payroll is an intuitive, easy to use and user friendly payroll package.
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Accord Payroll Specification
Single
user or network version available for Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Btrieve or
any other ODBC compliant database on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
platforms. Unlimited number of companies per Accord installation. Unlimited
number of employee records per company.
Weekly,
2 weekly, 4 weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annually paid employees,
all on one payroll. An employee payment frequency can easily be changed. Payment
by cash, cheque, Giro, BACS and Autopay and BOBS to several employee bank
accounts and 3rd party accounts. Export interfaces to any electronic
banking payment system. Spinal Point Tables support with automatic backdated
payment calculations. Multi-currency payments/deductions including Euro are
supported.
Extensive
library of standard payment and deduction types, unlimited number of user
definable payments/deductions.
Set
of Wizards to facilitate creating new companies, new tax/financial year data,
user definable additions/deductions.
Form
and spreadsheet employee entry interfaces, time-sheets entry/import
functionality, employee information templates. Integration with Accord
Timesheets.
System
and/or companies password protected user level security. Audit log and audit
reports.
All
tax codes and NI table letters supported – including COMP Schemes. Backdated NI
calculations, NIC Holiday. Directors NI – including mid-year starters.
Intermediate payroll run for starters and leavers, calculation undo
functionality with automatic reversal of the payroll journal transactions.
All
legislation changes supported including Tax Credits, Collection of Student
Loans, Scottish Variable Tax, SAP, and SPP.
Construction
Industry Scheme (CIS) support including printing CIS vouchers and CIS end of
year returns.
Payroll
Diary component allows to maintain employee notes and tasks.
Accord
Timesheets, Accord Invoicing and Credit Control modules can be used by
recruitment agencies to automatically produce invoices from payroll data input
and do Credit Control.
Net to
gross calculation. Handling both several net to gross payment components and
mixture of net to gross and gross to net components.
SSP/SMP/SPP/SAP
automatic calculation. Holiday pay in advance. Payment plans to set up loan
repayments, etc. Attachment of earnings orders full support including priority
AEO, non priority AEO, CTO, CCAEO.
Pensions:
Fixed amount, % of definable figure, COMP, AVC, stakeholder’s pensions.
Payroll
statistics and payment history held as long as needed.
Payslips, payment
summaries, etc. can be re-printed for any period.
Extensive
library of standard reports and forms – including
payslips,
cheques,
Giros, BOBS
Submission/Data Input forms, P45s, P32, P35, P14s, P60s, P11Ds, CIS
subcontractor payment forms, CIS payment vouchers, CIS36, etc.
Intrinsic
WYSIWYG report designer to modify/create new reports/forms. Integration with
Crystal Reports.
Comprehensive
payroll accounting, splitting employee costs between cost
centres, projects,
integrated General Ledger module with transaction export functionality.
Database
and company data backup and restore utilities. Automatic data backup
functionality.
Powerful
user definable data import/export interfaces. Employee details, previous
payments, payment transactions and time-sheets can be imported from external
files or Excel.
Comprehensive
handling of year-end procedures, electronic submission of end of year returns
using the Internet.
Integration
with Accord Timesheets and the UK leading accounting, HR, Recruitment and P11D
software.
Intrinsic
scripting language with own Workbench provides ultimate customizability.
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