Learn payroll from compliance through processing, review, and reconciliation.

Move from payroll concepts into the system and learn how employee payroll data is built.

• New hire setup in isolved HCM
• Employee demographic and payroll data
• Federal and state tax setup
• Direct deposit setup
• Earnings and deductions
• Employee payroll profiles
• Pay groups and payroll frequencies
• Payroll calendars and processing groups
• Work locations and organizational information
• Effective dates and employee changes
• Employee setup review and troubleshooting
• Common setup errors and how they affect payroll

The training introduces hands-on system work by having participants create employee profiles and review the payroll data points that drive processing. Pay groups are also covered as the structure that determines who is paid together, how often they are paid, and which payroll rules apply.

Learn how employee time becomes payroll data and how configuration affects pay.

• Time and attendance fundamentals
• Timekeeping setup and payroll integration
• PTO and absence policies
• Holiday configuration
• Meal and break rules
• Timekeeping rounding rules
• Employee schedules
• Regular hours and overtime
• Timecard workflows
• Timekeeping exceptions
• State-specific timekeeping considerations
• Payroll and timekeeping configuration
• Common setup and timekeeping errors
• Controls that help prevent inaccurate payroll

Learn what happens behind the payroll calculation and begin processing payroll in the system.

• Earnings and earning-code configuration
• Regular pay, overtime, bonuses, commissions, and other earnings
• Deduction-code configuration
• Pretax and post-tax deductions
• Section 125 payroll treatment
• Federal, state, and local tax setup
• Taxability and payroll configuration
• Payroll data collection and documentation
• Payroll processing checklists
• Payroll input and data validation
• Payroll previews
• Reviewing payroll calculations
• Payroll registers
• Corrections and payroll changes
• Processing payroll in isolved HCM

The course emphasizes understanding how earnings, deductions, and taxes are configured rather than simply relying on automated calculations.

Learn how to determine whether payroll results are accurate before payroll is finalized.

• Payroll audit fundamentals
• Preventive and detective payroll controls
• Payroll exceptions
• Variance analysis
• Unusual and missing pay
• Employee changes and payroll impacts
• Reviewing payroll registers
• Comparing payroll periods
• Payroll reporting
• Payroll liabilities
• Payroll documentation
• Supporting documentation and approvals
• Error identification and correction
• Payroll communication
• Reconciliation
• Audit-ready payroll records

Complete a payroll workflow that brings together compliance, employee data, timekeeping, processing, auditing, and reporting.

• Payroll readiness review
• Source-data validation
• Employee and payroll changes
• Payroll batch updates
• Earnings and deduction changes
• Payroll preview
• Reviewing expected versus actual results
• Processing payroll
• Final payroll register review
• Payroll-to-payroll comparison
• Variance investigation
• Payroll reconciliation
• Documentation and audit support
• Final payroll approval considerations
• Final certification assessment

Participants begin by validating whether payroll is ready, make payroll changes in the system, process the payroll, and then review and reconcile the results.