Payroll

Paychex has released a list of what it sees as the top regulatory issues of this summer.

Andrea Parness of A Parness Company CPA talks about how her firm is using online portals for exchanging tax documents with clients and payroll files with a payroll service, in a video interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Total nonfarm employment increased by 215,000 in July, including 1,900 jobs in accounting and bookkeeping services, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.3 percent.

Small businesses experienced a slowdown in employment growth in July, compared to previous months, according to Intuit, although employees were paid slightly more and worked additional hours.

Private sector employers added 185,000 jobs last month, according to payroll giant ADP, indicating some slackening in job growth, particularly in the manufacturing and energy industries.

Small business employment growth has remained relatively stable for the second month in a row, according to payroll service giant Paychex.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Collection division is piloting an initiative to make early contact with employers who may be falling behind in their payroll taxes.

Millennials are seeing gains in wage and employment growth, according to new data from payroll giant ADP that also found significant gains among older workers who delay retirement.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday that total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 223,000 jobs in June, sending the unemployment rate down two-tenths of a point to 5.3 percent.

Private sector employment increased by 237,000 jobs last month, according to payroll giant ADP, in a sign of further strengthening in the economy.

Accountants could gain some extra business from the Obama administration’s proposed changes in determining overtime pay, according to the payroll giant Paychex, which found a slight decline in small business job growth in June in a mostly positive payroll report that it released Tuesday.

Owners of small businesses are finding their stress levels going down as the economy improves and their money troubles lessen.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm employment increased last month by 280,000, with job gains mostly occurring in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and health care. However, employment in accounting and bookkeeping services declined a bit.

Hiring at small professional services firms grew a bit last month, according to the latest figures from CBIZ.

Chris Rush of ADP describes some of the latest products and services that ADP is offering for accountants, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Chris Rush of ADP discusses the changing demographics, technology and regulation in the accounting profession and how firm leaders can deal with succession planning, recruitment, retention, cloud computing, and the Affordable Care Act, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Employment in the private sector increased by 201,000 jobs last month in another healthy sign of an improving economy, according to figures from payroll giant ADP.

The pace of small business hiring appears to be leveling off, according to a new report from payroll giant Paychex and the research firm IHS.

A little advance planning can help you make the right choices in payroll.

Improvements are needed to safeguard and protect employers that use payroll providers.