Period-End, Quarter-End, and Year-End Processing Checklist

P/R Period-End, Quarter-End, and Year-End Processing Checklist

Use the following checklist to perform weekly (pay period) processing activities.

Warning Backing up your data is an important part of your daily, weekly, quarterly, and period-end procedures. For more information, see System FAQs.

	Set the Payroll accounting date to the quarter-ending date.
	Print the Quarterly Tax Report, Payroll Check History Report, and Quarterly Pay Period Recap. Verify that all checks and adjustments have been entered for the current quarter.
	Print the Quarterly Governmental Report.
	Print the Quarterly 941 using Federal eFiling and Reporting.
	If performing quarter end for the fourth quarter (year end), print and verify the W-2 Forms using Federal eFiling and Reporting.
	Back up the Payroll files onto a quarterly set of backup disks or tapes.
	Select the Quarter End Processing task in Period End Processing. If performing period-end processing for the fourth quarter, select the Quarter and Year End Processing task.
	Select the reports to print for the period end. Print at least the Quarterly Tax Report and the Payroll Check History Report.
	Complete period-end processing after all of the selected reports have been printed.
	Back up the Payroll file using a separate set of disks or tapes from the set used to back up the system in step 6.