Book excerpt: Updated for Sage 50 Payroll for the 2016/17 payroll year, this definitive guide clarifies everything from creating basic employee records, government legislation settings and paying your employees to utilising Sage Payroll as an information-bank for recording deductions, absences, and holidays. Areas covered include: getting started quickly using set-up wizards configuring company settings keeping up-to-date and compliant with the latest payroll and pension legislation payroll security to control access managing your employees processing and producing payslips NIC, car fuel, loans and other deductions holidays, SMP, SSP and different absence types running Year End procedures making online HMRC submissions generating invaluable management reports working with payroll for small businesses using Cloud-based Sage One Payroll Sage 50 Payroll 2016 in easy steps is ideal for anyone needing to quickly grasp the essentials of running a Sage 50 payroll system, whether for the first time or needing to learn the new key features. The Sage Payroll range includes: Desktop software Sage 50 Payroll 2016 (single user, single company) Sage 50 Payroll 2016 Professional (multi-user, multi-company) Cloud Based Online Software Sage One Payroll (1-15 employees)