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Topics for Professional Payroll Clerk Certification

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Typically, an entry-level payroll clerk collects, review, approved, and records time records. The clerk also updates attendance records, including vacation, sick, and personal days. Once a payroll is processed, the clerk reviews the information to ensure the accuracy of each employee's pay statement. Job responsibilities will include entering information into the payroll system. Providing information to the finance department concerning the amounts to be paid for taxes, health insurance premiums, retirement plans, etc., may also be part of the evolving duties of the advancing payroll professional. One of the final stages involves the completion of payroll tax returns, employee information returns, federal and state census surveys, and fringe benefit and welfare plan returns. Payroll professionals must keep abreast of the changes in their field so that they can remain technically proficient. This need has been met by an association of payroll practitioners - the American Payroll Association (APA). Membership in the association is open to anyone interested in or engaged in the support of payroll accounting. The APA offers professional training seminars and various publications to its members. Each year, the APA administers an examination for the payroll accountant and awards a certificate to those who pass the exam (Certified Payroll Professional).

Upon completion of this course, we will issue you a frame-able professional certificate of completion. Payroll professionals who study well and who successfully complete the following prescribed payroll certification program with a grade point average of 90% or better can prepare payrolls professionally and can also sit for the APA exam with confidence.