Financial Tab

Budget

Detail report - display a breakdown of how of each employee's wage lines, allowance lines and salary contribute to the projected annual earnings.
Summary report - display only a total of wages, allowances and salary per employee, for the projected annual earnings.

Costing Analysis

Show detail - show each transaction in the pay, and how it accumulates towards the cost centre. Turn off to see only transaction totals per cost centre.
Show wage hours - shows the actual hours worked alongside the wage line.
Print each department on a new page - start a new page for each department.
Show employee totals - use in combination with the Summary view to see totals per cost centre plus totals for employees within that cost centre, without having to see all the transaction details.
Hide salary amounts - prevent salaries from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total - useful when you only want to see wages expense.
Hide wage hours - hide the hours paid as wages from the report.
Hide allowance amounts - prevent allowances from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide annual leave amounts - prevent annual leave from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide personal leave amounts - prevent personal leave from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide long service leave amounts - prevent long service leave from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide shift leave amounts - prevent shift leave from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide other leave amounts - prevent other leave from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide deductions amounts - prevent deductions from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide leave accruals - prevent leave accruals from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide WorkCover - prevent WorkCover from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide superannuation deduction amounts - prevent superannuation contributions from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Hide non-cash benefits - prevent non-cash benefits from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Use Grossed up value for Fringe Benefits - when calculating WorkCover levies on fringe benefits, use the grossed-up value of the fringe benefit.
Hide superannuation payment amounts - prevent superannuation contributions from factoring into the totals per cost centre and the grand total.
Select Pays Using - you may elect to date locate pays by their Pay Period End Date (earnings method), which matches Accounting reports such as the Trial Balance, or by their Physical Payment Date (receipts method), which matches Tax reports such as the PAYG Payment Summary.

General Ledger

Show employee totals - shows total hours, debits and credits for each employee. Useful in the summary view when you want to see how the summarised total is spread over the employees without having to see each transaction. Useful in the detailed view when you want to see the total result of each employee's transaction. Not recommended when you are exporting the general file.
Create a batch file - tells the system to output general ledger data to an accounting package such as ACCPAC 16-bit, DacEasy, Quantum-5, Cashbook, Global 3000, GECL General Ledger, or ASCII version 1. For other file formats such as ACCPAC 32-bit, Attache, Decfin, Greentree, NZA Gold, Sage, or Visual Cashbook, use the General Ledger Exporter (Reports menu->Export General Ledger).
Hide Leave Accruals - hide accruals for annual leave, personal leave, long service leave and rostered days off from the report.
Use Grossed Up value for Fringe Benefits - when calculating WorkCover levies on fringe benefits use the grossed-up value of the fringe benefit.
Hide WorkCover - prevent WorkCover from factoring into the report.
Hide superannuation payment amounts - prevent superannuation payment amounts from factoring into the report.
Export all general ledger payments - always export all of the transactions in the pay.
Export only payments not yet posted - when you create a GL file, the transactions in it are deemed to be 'posted' to the general ledger. Using this option avoids doubled-up postings, in that if there is a mistake in the GL file and you have to recreate it, only the transactions that are new to the second file will be posted, and the same accounts won't be processed twice.
Export to accounting software - choose your file format here.
Summary Report - Show only totals for the given sort order, e.g. totals per employee, totals per GL code, without showing the details of the transaction.
Detail Report - Show each transactions in the pay and total them, for the given sort order, e.g. totals per employee and the breakdown of the pay for the employee, totals for the GL code, broken down into totals for the employee, and broken down further into each individual transaction.

Hours Analysis

Detail report - if the report is over a selected date range, show a date and breakdown of hours for each wage line in the employee's pay.
Show Employee Totals - In the detail view you get a breakdown of hours by wage line for the employee, this option gives the sum of those wages lines, for the employee.
Show Amount Analysis - shows a dollar value for the hours worked at the specified rate type for each employee.
Show Premium Amounts - provides an analysis of the difference, or "premium" between ordinary dollars and overtime dollars.
Print each department/cost centre on a new page - start a new page for each department/cost centre, when sorting by department/cost centre.
Show terminated employees - include ex-employees in the report.

Payroll Audit

Ignore Casual Employees - casual employees can often create variances, because they are paid intermittently. Although the variances exist, they are often not the kind of variances you want to see—if so, turn this option on to eliminate casual variances.

Superannuation Contributions/Employees

Export to CSV using - specifies whether records should be exported using the Pay Period End Date or Physical Pay Date. Available for Superannuation Contributions only.
Show terminated employees - include ex-employees in the report. Available for Superannuation Employees only.

The Output Options dropdown contains options specific to these reports:

CSV Output - this is the standard output format used by other reports, which allows the user to select the fields to output and what order they should be in.
QuickSuper - selecting this option exports employee details in the format used by the QuickSuper SMSF Gateway.
SuperChoice - selecting this option exports employee details in the format used by the SuperChoice superannuation contribution exchange service.
SuperStreamAFF - this option exports data in the Alternative File Format specified by the SuperStream standard, for submission to a SuperStream certified product.

The Print Report window also lets you enter a QS Employer ID number, which may be necessary when exporting to QuickSuper.

Superannuation Summary

Employer contributions only - hides the employee contributions from the report.
Show terminated employees - include ex-employees in the report (recommended).
One CSV file per provider - recommended when superannuation contributions will need to be forwarded to various superannuation providers, as opposed to just one provider. When the report destination is set to CSV, this option will tell the system to group transactions against each provider and then create a separate CSV file for each provider, with a naming convention of filename_providername.csv.
Show employee membership number - show the employee's superannuation fund membership number on the report.
Print each provider on a new page - each superannuation provider will be displayed on a separate page. A grand total will be printed on the final (separate) page.
Print Report Using - you may elect to date pays by their pay period end date (earnings method), which matches Accounting reports such as the Trial Balance, or by their physical payment date (receipts method), which matches Tax reports such as the PAYG Payment Summary.

Superannuation Transfer

Print each department/cost centre on a new page - start a new page for each department/cost centre, when sorting by department/cost centre.
Show payer details - shows your company's name, bank account and particulars in the report header.
Select Pays Using - you may elect to date locate pays by their pay period end date (earnings method), which matches Accounting reports such as the Trial Balance, or by their physical payment date (receipts method), which matches Tax reports such as the PAYG Payment Summary.

Trial Balance

Detail report - if the report is over a selected date range, shows a record for each pay for each employee rather than a total for all pays for each employee.
Print Each Department on a new page - starts a new page for each department rather than a total for all pays for each employee.
Orientation - choose from Landscape or Portrait orientation. The landscape version offers an extended breakdown of leave paid.

WorkCover

Show Employee Detail - displays a breakdown of how each employee has contributed to the final WorkCover value.
Used Gross up value for Fringe Benefits - factor in the applicable fringe benefit tax and/or gist input credits by multiplying the transacted Fringe Benefit amount by the relevant gross up rate, as derived from the Fringe Benefit Type setting in the Non Cash Benefits masterfile.
Select Pays Using - you may elect to locate pays by their pay period end date (earnings method), which matches Accounting reports such as the Trial Balance, or by their physical payment date (receipts method), which matches Tax reports such as the PAYG Payment Summary.