Calendar Year-End Considerations
(W2 forms and Vendor 1099 forms)
Payroll W2 Processing
  • Make certain you have run the last payroll run for the year -- Make absolutely certain all of your transactions are posted!

  • Run Clear Employee Totals -- it will offically "close" the fourth quarter of the payroll

  • Run the Tax History Verification Report and verify the amounts -- if OK then run it again with the "year-end report" box checked.

  • To adjust individual W2 records (ie, Life Insurance Term Premium amounts), run the Pre-W2 Processing program and add/change any miscellaneous and W2 related deductions

  • Run the W2 Preview Report (*new in 2001*) and make any necessary adjustments (through load tax history and re-running tax history verification report with the year-end option marked)

  • Run your W2 forms

  • Create your W2 Electronic File, Test it with the AccuWage program and submit it to the Federal Government

Click here for detailed examples and detailed procedures


Vendor 1099 Amounts
1

Make certain you have printed and posted your last A/P check run for the calendar year.

2
  • Run the "Clear Vendor YTD Accumulators" from the accounts payable menu:
    (Accounting, Accounts Payable, Periodic Processing):



    This being a "calendar year-end" procedure make certain you click "Amount Paid" only. The other field is for "fiscal" type accumulators such as purchases and discounts.

  • 3 What you have done is moved the amount of purchases this year to a field in the vendor master record called "purchases last year". These are the amounts that print on the 1099 forms for all 1099 related vendors. After you run this the second screen of the vendor master record may look like this:



    You will notice that the "Amount Paid YTD" field is zeroed out -- that is the field that just moved to "Amount Paid Last Year" when you performed step #2.

    !!! If you need to manually adjust the amount that is going to print on the 1099 form you will do so from the second screen of the Vendor master record. In order to successfully change this "protected" field you must enter the number you wish to print on the 1099 form and then press Ctrl-O and then Pfkey-11 / Okay. This can help you adjust for vendors with split 1099 related items or if you did not perform step #2 at the proper time (these things do happen!).

    4 Make certain you have classified your vendors correctly with the Vendor 1099 category and their federal id or social security number.

    5 Print your 1099 forms. NOTE:  if you are using laser forms you must use the same printer specification for the W2 laser forms -- you must have the same on-sequence codes as that printer specification.


    As always if you have any questions or concerns please call Geneva's support department at
    (336) 275-8887 ext. 10