Payroll > Setting up for Production > Setting up for Production

Before you begin ... General Ledger preparation

Ensure these necessary General Ledger accounts are set up before you continue...

•	Bank Account for Payroll Checks

•	Liability Accounts for Payroll withholdings

•	Expense Accounts for Payroll

•	Suspense AccountID

Setting up for Production

The following is the sequence of steps to set up Payroll once you've set up the necessary General Ledger accounts.

Use the Payroll Setup task to do items 1, 2 and 3.

1.	Define basic company information.

2.	Set up the Federal, State and Local Income Tax information.

3.	Set up the State Unemployment, Disability and Workman's Compensation information.

4.	Use the Employee maintenance task to set up the Employee information.

5.	If one or more pay periods in this calendar year have already been processed, then enter the applicable Quarterly totals by Employee using the Edit Employee QuarterToDate totals task.