What You'll Learn

The finish line of the payroll cycle.

✓ How to read the payroll register, and how withholdings and employee and employer payroll taxes flow through it.

✓ How to prepare journal entries for employee withholdings and employer taxes, and apply payments.

✓ Payroll tax filings, due dates, and payment methods and requirements.

✓ How to reconcile payroll.

✓ Federal retention guidelines, state requirements, and best practices for retaining payroll documents.

✓ How to work effectively with payroll service companies.

Nothing late. Nothing missing. Nothing to worry about.

Course Curriculum

    1. Course Overview

    1. Payroll Taxes

    2. Presentation - Payroll Taxes

    1. Payroll Journal Entries

    2. Presentation - Payroll Journal Entries

    1. Payroll Tax Filings

    2. Presentation - Payroll Tax Filings

    1. Retaining Payroll Documents & Payroll Service Companies

    2. Presentation - Retaining Payroll Documents & Payroll Service Companies

About this course

  • $185.00
  • 9 lessons

This Course Is Step 3 of a Certificate Program

The Mastering Payroll Certificate Program

Payroll & Tax Filings is the final course in the Mastering Payroll Certificate Program, bringing together everything from the first two courses.

Step 1: Payroll Concepts
Step 2: Payroll Calculations & Withholdings
Step 3: Payroll & Tax Filings

Get all three for $445 and save $110. A payment plan of 2 payments of $222.50 is available on the full program.
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Hi, I'm Sharon.

Your instructor, and your biggest cheerleader.

I spent 10 years in corporate accounting before I started teaching, and I've now been teaching bookkeeping and accounting for 22 years through continuing education and workforce development programs at universities and colleges.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Business Education from Temple University, a Pennsylvania Department of Education teaching certificate in Accounting, and I'm a Certified Online Instructor.

But here's what matters most: so many of my students walk in convinced they're "not a numbers person." Most of them are wrong. They just never had it explained clearly.

That's my job. Plain English, step by step, until it clicks.
Read My Story
Sharon deFonteny, Bookkeeping and Business Finance Educator

Questions? Good. Here Are the Answers.

  • Do I need the first two courses first?

    Yes. This course builds on Payroll Concepts and Payroll Calculations & Withholdings. If you haven’t taken them yet, the Mastering Payroll Certificate Program includes all three.

  • I use a payroll service. Is this for me?

    Yes. Even with a payroll service, you’re still responsible for making sure filings are accurate and on time. This course helps you understand what they’re doing and how to work with them effectively.

  • Do I need payroll software?

    No. You’ll learn how payroll entries and filings work by hand first, so you understand what any software or service is producing.

  • Is the Bookkeeping Community included?

    Yes. It’s a place for students across all of my courses and Certificate Programs to ask questions, share what they’re working on, and connect with others learning the same material.

Ready to Close the Loop on Payroll?

File on time. Reconcile with confidence.