Payroll for several locations within one company

[Christina]

I have tax preparation and bookkeeping firm. We are a corporation and have several locations. I am trying to set all the locations up within 1 company in Peachtree using department masking for the GL accounts to run an income statement for each location. This works for the income and most of the expenses. The problem I ran into is on payroll. I set up a separate liability account for each office for federal withholding, social security, SUTA and FUTA tax, but when you write the payroll check it does not put the withholding in the right GL account for the specific office. I must be overlooking something in the employee defaults or employee files. Has anyone ever used this department masking before? If you have, how do you set up the payroll defaults?

[Diane Koers]

You need to change the accounts in the Maintain Employee screens. On the EmployEE screen and the EmployER screens ,uncheck the STD box then you can change the account numbers. Do NOT recheck the STD box or they'll go back to the defaults.

[Christina]

Thanks for the informations. I found that out after playing with it all day. However, I have another problem. What do you do if you have an employee that works at 2 offices within the same company. You can only set one default G/L account for the gross wages and withholding - which would be for their "main" office they work at. But what if they sometime work at another office. the only solution I have found is to write them a separate check for their time at the 2nd office so you can change the G/L accounts to the right office. Is there another way? Its seems like Peachtree does not really support a company with several locations. Also, is their any other report you can customize with the department masking besides the income statement and general ledger? Thanks again for your help.