Payroll Services

Payroll is a deadline business. The work is routine until a filing is late, and the penalty is rarely proportionate to the mistake.

We run payroll for small and mid-size businesses across Southern California — the pay runs, the federal and state deposits, the quarterly filings, and the forms at year end.

Most payroll problems are not arithmetic

They are classification and timing. A contractor who is really an employee. A deposit made on the wrong schedule. A state registration nobody opened. The math was right in every one of those cases. The exposure came from somewhere else.

Year end is where the year shows up

W-2s and 1099s are assembled from twelve months of records. A payment posted to the wrong account in March surfaces in January, when the deadline is days away rather than months. That is why bookkeeping and payroll usually travel together — clean records make the year-end forms uneventful.

What it takes off your desk

Payroll is not difficult work. It is unforgiving work, and it comes back every two weeks whether or not the rest of the business is busy. Most owners who hand it over do so for the calendar rather than the complexity.

The same records feed the business return, so payroll and income tax preparation are easier to keep straight in one place.

Call for a free consultation. We will tell you what moving payroll across would involve, and what it would not.