Pulse Workspace version 4.0.74

Versions 4.0.72/73 were internal testing versions only.

An issue that caused pay recalculation to hang in Pay Details Entry has been resolved.
Corrected date issues when printing PAYG Summaries and/or the PAYG Summary Annual Report for the previous financial year and an employee being reported was terminated, commenced and/or re-commenced in the current financial year.

Pulse Workspace version 4.0.71

New. The On Day field in Hours Entry within Pay Details Entry now allows you to select the applicable date when entering public holiday hours details. This in turn allows costing of these hours to the correct public holiday date. This will only have effect when one or more public holiday dates have been defined for the current pay period.
New. Pay Details Entry now has a Change Pay Date button on its menu. Use this option to create pays for any date in the past 12 months. There are of course caveats when using this option but they are fully explained in the dialog that is opened when the button is clicked. Please take care if you need to enter pays outside the current month reporting cycle or financial year.
An employee’s adjusted rate percentage is now correctly applied to timesheet as well as hours entries.

Note: versions 4.0.68/69 were internal testing versions only.

A number of issues relatig to the calculation of accrued leave to a date prior to the current system date and in the previous financial year have been addressed.
New. Process Casual Terminations has been added to the Payroll menu. Use this procedure to terminate casual employees without the need to create a Pay Details termination record.

An issue that caused the summary option in the General Ledger Interface to summarise into the default account / C-B-D only has been corrected.
All leave calculations (including leave accrual and leave on termination calculations) have been revised to use Minimum Salary as the effective rate of pay when the Minimum Salary algorithm is in use. Note that this implements the requirements of one client’s workplace agreement only and will not generally effect leave calculations for other clients.
New. The reports menu now contains the Ordinary Time Earnings Report. The report compares ordinary time earnings to superannuation contributions and calculates the actual rate of employer contributions as a percentage of ordinary earnings.
The system now calculates the default number of days when processing leave transactions in Pay Details Entry. Note that this is an approximate value and should be checked against the employee’s actual forward roster. The formula used is …

Days = N – PH – RDO

where:

N = the Number of days between the start and finish leave dates

PH = The number of Public Holidays between the start and finish dates

RDO = The number of standard RDO days (weekends) between the start and finish dates. This is calculated as 2 days for every 7 days of leave.

The Period Earnings Summary now contains an analysis of employee gender by employee type.
An issue that caused the Employee Cost By Department report to fail when no department has a parent (root) department has been corrected.
All hierarchical style reports (eg. the Employee Cost By Department report) are now sorted alhabetically within the hierarchy.

Maintain Employee Rosters now contains a Verify toggle button on the menu. When toggled (clicked) On rosters are verified as they are entered. When toggled Off rosters will not be verified until the button is toggled On again. Turning Verify off allows faster processing when dealing with large datasets.
The Refresh button in Maintain Employee Rosters has been renamed Process. In addition, data for the current week is no longer automatically retrieved from the database on entering the application. This provides the opportunity to set options such as pay week, roster verification and filters before retrieving the data. To retrieve data press the Process button after setting your options.

Pay Details Entry now allows change to the Payment Type (Prepaid, Cash or EFT) when two or more pays are created.
The calculation of pay summary details in Pay Details Entry is now independent of the number of pays and employees that have been processed. This should provide a significant performance improvement for clients with large datasets.
An issue that caused grand totals to be omitted on the Payroll Cost By Department Report has been corrected.