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  1. 4 votes

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  2. 35 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea and voting on it.

    We suggest you try running the Update Retirement Earnings with Summer Payroll Amounts. This can be found by navigating to PaC > Human Resources > Payroll > Reporting > Retirement Processing TRS. Click on the “Options” button to run the Update Retirement Earnings with Summer Payroll Amounts.

    Keep an eye out for Emails from Skyward for TRS Annual & TRS Pay Period Report Webinars and Training available this summer.

    The TRS Pay Period Report goes live January 2021.

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  3. 7 votes

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  4. 49 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this request and voting on it. We’ve had our experts run a few test at Skyward and we believe the system is working as intended as long as the set up is correct. Please review these steps & try this instead:

    1) When running the Unpaid Time Off Import (Create Dock Pay) utility in Payroll Worksheets the ACA Hours are automatically created.

    2) The hours are negative – to indicate taking ACA hours away from the total ACA hours for the payroll

    3) The number of hours recorded is based on the Time Off Code Setup – Hours per Day

    4) The ACA hours are written directly from the Unpaid Import. They are not derived from the ACA Import button in Payroll Select

    5) Primary Pay’s ACA hours is pulled from the ACA Import in Select

    6) The Import runs out to the web. It is…

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  5. 75 votes

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  6. 69 votes

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    We currently have the Transaction Pay Code in Payroll Worksheet which can be used to add a description why an employee is getting paid. Currently, what happens is when you select the Worksheet Detail record into Payroll, it pulls all the deductions/benefits from the Pay Record Pay Code, then renames the Pay Code to the Transaction Pay Code. When it comes through on the check, it’s the Transaction Pay Code, but everything is pulled from the Pay Record with the Pay Record Pay Code. Our suggestion is to create Transaction Pay Codes, but you won’t need to create pay records with them. By doing it this way, you’ll also create consistency between the different records vs a free form description box. This way will also handle any concerns about combining worksheet detail records into payroll transactions.

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  7. 73 votes

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    Best Practice recommendation is to enter one cash receipt per batch number when you do cash receipt entry. In addition, go to PaC, System Admin, Fin Mgmt, Install Info, System Options, and make sure the flag for “Budgetary Accounting Update Summarize By Batch” is set to Yes. This will ensure each cash receipt is listed separately in the Cash Receipts area of the bank rec, which will make reconciling much easier.

    If you do not want to enter one cash receipt per batch number, you can use the Receipt Number field on the cash receipt entry screen instead. If you have the software assign a Receipt Number to each deposit, you can create a Cash Receipts report (Financial Management, Account Management, Account Mgmt Reporting, General Inputs History), sorted and totaled by Receipt Number. This report should make reconciling cash receipts easy. (We still recommend…

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  8. 84 votes

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  9. 6 votes

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  10. 21 votes

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  11. 38 votes

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  12. 9 votes

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  13. 37 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. We need your feedback to clarify this request.

    Is this request to make it so the pay record “by default” uses the paid start/stop dates on the CONTRACT to stop paying the pay record whether or not they’ve imported paid start/stop dates into their pay records with the assignment export/payroll import?

    If you have additional information to help clarify what you’d like to see updated or expect to see changed that will help us.

    Thank you!

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  14. 84 votes

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  16. 63 votes

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  17. 17 votes

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  18. 39 votes

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