How do I enter payroll time to support ACA requirements?

For Hourly employees:

• Enter the date of each day worked in the Date Column, This information will allow the ACA Hours field to populate automatically in the header of the payroll record. The program will automatically calculate the hours worked and separate it between two months if the dates cross months

OR

• Manually enter the hours in the ACA Hours fields in header of the 5-2-2 payroll records screen

OR

• Do nothing and manually fill in the report at the end of the year

For Salaried employees:

• Enter the date for each day worked in the Date Column of the grid,
• • This information will allow the ACA Hours field to populate automatically in the header of the payroll record. The program will automatically calculate the hours worked and separate it between two months if the dates cross months

OR

• Manually enter the hours in the ACA Hours fields in header of the 5-2-2 payroll records screen
• • answer Yes to the message "Reminder: You are overriding a calculated amount. The program will no longer automatically compute the value for the ACA Hours fields from the Timecard lines. Are you sure you want to continue?
  • If the pay period crosses into a second month (for example a weekly pay period from 10/29/2020 - 11/02/2020) enter the number of hours worked in the first month in the left ACA Hours field and the number of hours worked in the second month in the right ACA Hours field. The two fields added together should equal the total hours that the employee worked in that pay period.

OR

• Mark the employee as FULL TIME on the 5-2-1 Employee screen ACA Tab

OR

• Manually fill in the forms

If the pay period crosses into a second month (for example a weekly pay period from 10/29/2020 - 11/02/2020) enter the number of hours worked in the first month in the left ACA Hours field and the number of hours worked in the second month in the right ACA Hours field. The two fields added together should equal the total hours that the employee worked in that pay period.

The information from the ACA Hours fields along with the settings entered on the ACA tab on the 5-2-1 Employees screen are used to populate report 5-4-3-21 ACA Hours Allocation.