Welcome to the FastFund Payroll Certification Course. As a nonprofit accountant, managing payroll can often be a complicated and time-consuming administrative task. FastFund Payroll Online is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application purposefully built to alleviate this burden by providing the tools you need to manage your organization’s fiscal, human resource, and payroll tax responsibilities.
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Because it utilizes a flexible and scalable SQL database structure, FastFund Payroll is highly adaptable. It can be easily tailored to how your specific organization manages its employee data, regardless of whether you have five employees or five hundred.
Here is an overview of the key features and capabilities you will leverage in this system:
- Comprehensive Employee Data Management: The system securely tracks vital employee details, including pay type, salary or hourly pay rate, date of hire, and department. It also automatically calculates and accrues vacation and sick time based on your organizational policies.
- Flexible Payroll Processing: You can easily process payroll on a weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly basis. The system supports multiple pay types (such as regular, overtime, and premium) as well as piece/quantity pay for shift nurses or stipends.
- Deductions and Other Income: Use Master Adjustments to manage items added to or deducted from wages outside of standard taxes, such as health insurance, retirement annuities, union dues, and travel reimbursements.
- Seamless Accounting Integration: Because payroll and accounting reside in a single database, the system posts all payroll transactions in complete detail directly to FastFund Accounting. It also allows you to seamlessly distribute an employee’s gross wages and payroll taxes across multiple cost centers and programs, eliminating the need for manual journal entries.
- Compliance and Tax Reporting: FastFund accurately calculates federal, state, and local income taxes, including Social Security, Medicare, State Unemployment (SUTA), and Federal Unemployment (FUTA). It tracks your tax liabilities and automatically generates 941 worksheets, state unemployment reports, and year-end W-2 and W-3 forms.
Important Compliance Rule: While FastFund Payroll does the heavy lifting of preparing your payroll and calculating taxes, it remains your responsibility as the employer to carefully review all calculated information and understand the specific federal, state, and local regulations required to keep your nonprofit in complete compliance.