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Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 01
In this section we will look at how hours are entered before each pay cycle. In
the employee update program we have provided several methods of finding an
employee. The default is "F4 Find All Active NOT SALARIED Empl." which will go
right through the file and pull up all employees who might need hours entry,
one after the other. This is an ideal choice for this purpose. Apart from any
new hire's (which will be at the end) the employees will be in alphabetical
order of surname. If you use time cards etc. it might be easier to have them
in the same sequence.
Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 02
Here the first employee has been found. The default is to accept it so if an
hours entry is to be made for this person just press Enter at this point. Even
if an hours entry is not required you may still want to press enter because
some other action may be needed, example this person may have terminated after
the last pay, or is away on vacation after taking advance vacation pay in the
last pay, in which case you will want to access the record anyway to change the
Status Code on the first basic employee information screen to T or V (and if T
you will also want to enter the reason code and the end date).
Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 03
The screen which selects where you wish to start reading the employee record
appears. The default choice is "F6 Employee Current Hours" which is exactly
what we need so just press enter.
Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 04
Now we have the hours entry screen. The top part of the screen will already be
filled in for you so unless anything is to be changed you can leave it alone.
In most cases the only entry needed here is "REG PAY HOURS" so press the down
arrow key 4 times to bring the cursor down to that field and enter the hours.
Hours entry is a decimal amount, example 75 hours and 15 minutes would be 75.25
hours (because 15 minutes is 15/60ths. or .25 of an hour).
If this employee worked shifts then you can allocate the regular hours over the
shifts worked. This person worked a week on day shift and a week on the
afternoon shift in her two week pay period. If she worked any overtime then
also enter the overtime hours, in this case 4, and if the overtime was worked
while on shift then allocate it between the shifts, in this case 2 hours whilst
on the day shift and 2 hours whilst on the afternoon shift. This allocation of
hours between shifts allows for precise calculations including any shift
differentials as those differentials might also apply to the overtime (see the
Configuration section for how to set up shift differentials).
Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 05
When we have completed the hours entry we can either press PgDn to go to the
next screen (so we can press F8 for an optional preview of the pay and taxes
for these hours) or we can get out of this employee record right now. Get out
now is what you would want to do the majority of times. You do not need to
page through remaining screens to get out, you also do not normally need to
press F8 from the next screen, you can get out from any cursor position on any
employee update screen by just pressing either the End key or the Esc key.
When you press End or Esc the above window will pop up. Once that window pops
up just press Y to save your changes, or follow the other directions in the
window if you do not wish to save your changes at this point.
Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 06
We pressed Y on the previous window so now the hours we entered for Janette
Anderson have been saved and the next employee has been located. We do have an
entry to make for Pauline Carter so we simply press enter from this window.
Screenfile HOURS.SCN Screen# 07
Once again the screen which selects where you wish to start reading the
employee record appears. This time for Pauline Carter. The default choice is
"F6 Employee Current Hours" which again is exactly what we need so just press
enter and continue doing the hours entry as per the previous example for
Janette Anderson, then on to the next employee, etc.
Hours entry is quite quick, and F8 pre-calculation is not needed except in
special circumstances where you are not sure of the effect of what you have
entered. Providing the two switches, COMPUTER CALC PAY = TRUE and COMPUTER
CALC TAX = TRUE (you can think of TRUE / FALSE fields as switches because they
act like a light switch, the light is either turned on - TRUE - or turned off -
FALSE) then all calculations will be done for you automatically in the pay
cycle. These two switches are there to allow you maximum flexibility. There may
be special circumstances where you wish to force through a particular pay or
tax amount that is different to what would be calculated so you can turn either
or both of them off when necessary to do this.