Payroll

Online accounting software maker Xero has partnered with online payroll product ZenPayroll, aiming at small businesses to integrate ZenPayroll data directly with Xero.

Many private businesses are planning to maintain their current staffing levels this year, according to accountants surveyed by financial information provider Sageworks.

The unemployment rate dipped a tenth of a percentage point to 7.6 percent in March, although hiring slowed to 88,000 jobs, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, with 11,000 jobs added in accounting and bookkeeping services.

Month-over-month hiring declined 0.2 percent in March at small businesses and the average paycheck size fell 0.1 percent, according to payroll provider SurePayroll, but optimism among small business owners rose.

Employment at small businesses in the U.S. grew a slight amount in March, with employees earning more money and working more hours, but revenues mostly dropping, according to Intuit.

Private sector employers added a total of 158,000 jobs in March, according to payroll giant ADP, with growth occurring across all sizes of companies and many industries such as finance, with the notable exception of construction.

After years of languishing as a peripheral accounting service, payroll has become one of the hottest trends adopted by CPA firms.

More than half of working Americans either have not noticed or been unaffected by the January 1 expiration of the payroll tax cut, according to a new survey.

ADP has introduced ADP SmartCompliance, a set of outsourced services to assist organizations with tax, employment and payroll compliance.

The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.7 percent as employment increased by 236,000 in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Employment in the private sector rose by 198,000 jobs in February, according to payroll giant ADP, fueled by a long-awaited rebound in the construction industry and healthy increases in a broad array of other sectors.

Sage North America has released Product Update 1 for Sage 300 ERP 2012, including – among other improvements -- 20 new enhancements to the Payroll module designed to simplify payroll processing and improve payroll reporting and compliance.

The average paycheck size rose slightly by 0.6 percent in terms of gross pay in January, according to payroll provider SurePayroll, although employees still lost money in their take-home pay from the expiration of the payroll tax cut.

U.S. small business employment increased 0.11 percent in January, while overall revenue dropped 0.4 percent in December, according to Intuit.

Employers added 192,000 jobs in the private sector this month, according to payroll giant ADP, with small businesses showing the largest job gains.

Red Wing Software has created a report tool within its CenterPoint Payroll Software designed to track employee status for the upcoming Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requirement that employers with 50 or more full time employers must offer health coverage.

Electronic filing and payroll and employee form provider Aatrix Software Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with BGTax Forms to provide W-2/1099 eFiling services via the Aatrix Payroll eFile Center to their customers.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 155,000 jobs in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but that was not enough to lower the unemployment rate of 7.8 percent as the pace of hiring appeared to slacken after strong gains in November.

The average paycheck size grew 0.1 percent in December, according to payroll processor SurePayroll, although month-over-month hiring dipped 0.1 percent.

Payroll giant ADP reported Thursday that private sector employment increased by 215,000 jobs from November to December, driven in part by construction jobs in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.