Tool Tip - Calculate How Many Working Days and Public Holidays For HR and Payroll

Figure 1 – Screen shot of Calendar for "How many working days and public holidays from date to date"

If you ever have to figure out the number of working days and public holidays from one date to another, the website http://www.workingdays.ca/Alberta.htm#aepd is the perfect tool to use to come up with the correct number of days. 

This window has multiple uses:

1. Use it to calculate a payout for an employee that is leaving

2. Use it to calculate the number of days and vacation for budgeting for the next fiscal year – it goes out to future years

3. Use it to fix the public holiday dates for sending out the notice for the upcoming year statutory days

4. Use it to check statutory days between Canada and the United States for planning purposes when the company works in both countries

5. Use it for planning weekend shifts for manufacturing shifts and for retail shifts

Using the Calendar function is much faster than counting the days manually on a calendar.

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Submitted by Judith Hirst CPA, CMA MCP Senior Financial Analyst

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New Features in HR and Payroll in Dynamics GP 2016 R2

 

Figure 1 – how to get to the new employment history window in GP 2016 R2 – US Payroll only

A very simple, but powerful improvement made to the payroll and human resource module is the new ability to track history on termination and rehire dates for employees. Any time a hire date, adjusted hire date, date inactivated, last day worked or termination date is updated in the system, that information will be saved and can be viewed through the employee history inquiry window. Tracking employee history with the company has now become simple.

Other payroll and human resource improvements include:

• Vendor addresses and accounts can be established in the payroll vendor setup window, allowing for a different distribution than those currently assigned to the vendor.
• A warning is now available for potential double deductions for mandatory arrears deductions due to a previous posting.
• Tip tax amounts are now included in distribution pre-posting reports for viewing before posting.
• An option is now available to exclude inactive pay codes from lookup windows throughout payroll.
• An enhanced payroll posting accounts setup now exits with navigation lists having filter and sort capabilities along with excel export and import functionality.

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Submitted by Terence Graw CPA, CMA – Consultant   www.dynamicsmct.com