USPS F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND R EVIEW June 6, 2013

P RE -C LOSING NC1 Payments Verification USPCON STRS advance amount is zero from previous fiscal year *NEW* Update EMIS Report Period field from K to N Run STRSAD Create new job calendars EMIS staff reporting for year-end cycle New contracts for July 1 start dates 2

P RE -C LOSING NC1 Payments For those employees retiring as of June 30 th the NC1 amount should be processed to prevent manual changes at calendar year-end Reference IRS Publication 15-B Pages

P RE -C LOSING UPDCAL

P RE -C LOSING NC1 Payment Federal, State nor OSDI taxes are withheld Added to wages even though no tax is withheld Medicare and FICA are withheld Flag in DEDNAM city records controls whether city tax is withheld. Even if flag is set to N, the amounts are added to the wages Manually change the wages if not the desired effect 5

P RE -C LOSING USPSDAT/DEDNAM 6

P RE -C LOSING NC1 amounts are not included in total gross pay charged to USAS Reports provide special totals for balancing NC1 payment added to special fields on JOBSCN, screen 3 7

P RE -C LOSING USPSDAT/USPCON STRS Advance fields should be blank 8

P RE -C LOSING STRSAD Can be executed now to begin balancing and verification of data Select option 1 Program will project days through the end of the fiscal year to determine jobs to advance and calculation of credit Earnings include those in the future Advance amount will be too large until all June pays are completed 9

P RE -C LOSING Job Calendars Job calendars for the school year can be added to the system as soon as board approved Utilize USPSDAT/CALMNT option Reminder of the Copy function 10

P RE -C LOSING EMIS Staff If district has not already completed the EMIS year-end reporting cycle, this can be done Run USPEMS/PERDET to verify staff data Data collection for staff data can be initialized Run CLRATD only when no additional staff extractions for EMIS are needed Can run anytime prior to the entry of long term illness days for school year 11

P RE -C LOSING Districts no longer need to complete their recap sheets on-line for STRS. 12

P RE -C LOSING New Contracts New contracts can be entered for those positions with a July 1 st start date Contracts with other start dates can be entered if the information is available 13

M ONTH -E ND C LOSING RETIRE/SERSREG Verify the data using projection Total contributions should equal total deduction and warrant checks payable to SERS Earnings x 10% should equal contributions 14

M ONTH -E ND C LOSING Verify service days for all employees Run actual option, answer Y to the Create SERS Tape File prompt Clears SERS MTD accumulated amounts from 400, 590 and 690 records Creates submission file Sets closing date 15

M ONTH -E ND C LOSING Run CHKSTA or PAYREC to reconcile checks Run USPRPT/CHKSTS to get list of outstanding checks Balance payroll account Run BENACC if necessary for the month 16

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING Run QRTRPT to generate demand report Lists all QTD figures from JOBSCN and DEDSCN Compare totals of deduction checks written to the totals for each deduction code Be cautious of deductions combined by vendor number Any differences should be resolved 17

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING Compare the Total Gross listed to the total of all payroll clearance checks written from USAS Subtract gross for payroll checks voided during the quarter from payroll clearance checks written 18

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Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING Balance Adjusted Gross on QRTRPT If the Calculated Adjusted Gross equals the Total Adjusted Gross, the Difference will be listed as 0.00 Difference should be resolved Verify the non-cash amounts Verify the total annuities equal total of all deduction checks payable to annuity companies Run AUDRPT, look for manual changes to JOBSCN total gross, annuity amounts, federal taxable gross 20

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING QRTRPT 21

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING W2PROC Balance the W2REPT to minimize problems at calendar year-end Deduction totals for taxes Deduction totals for annuities Complete and balance a W2 reconciliation sheet 22

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING PAYDED Generate a non-zero deduction report Enter an A in the Payment Option field Leave codes blank Leave cycle blank Generally there are no outstanding deductions at quarter-end 23

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING ODJFSRPT Check all totals and weeks When all data is correct, enter Y for creation of submission file Reminder - Taxable amount listed on report is used only for contributing employers, calculated value based on ODJFS rules 24

Q UARTER -E ND C LOSING ODJFSRPT 25

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING After all June pays are completed If aware of dock amounts on 1 st July payroll enter those in Dock Next Pay on JOBSCN Will be included in calculations by STRSAD If aware of early contract pay offs Change the number of pays Be cautious – pay per period may get changed 26

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING STRS annual report processing STRSAD Select option 1 STRSAD selects all employees and jobs that were subject to STRS withholding All employees with any amount are listed on the STRSAD.RPT - Service credit is calculated based on the STRS decision tree (handout) 27

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING If district is STRS based on gross and employees with STRS jobs that have: 1) Work days equal days worked 2) Amount remaining to pay greater than zero 3) Pays greater than pays paid will have an accrued contribution amount calculated for them. This accrued amount will be the amount of earnings not yet paid times the employees STRS withholding rate. 28

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Accrued contribution amount is calculated using the pay per period from JOBSCN for the remaining pays minus 1, then last pay calculation occurs 29

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING STRSAD sample calculation 30

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING STRSAD.TXT Lists all employees with an accrued contribution calculation Report will be empty if STRS is based on earnings May be inflated if fringe benefit flag on 450 is set to Y and employee has 691 with inflated rate Should be checked carefully Be consistent with prior years Check supplemental contracts, many times missed 31

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING NONADV.TXT Lists some of the employees with jobs that are not advancing If job has no amounts remaining to pay but meets all other criteria If days worked plus remaining days from calendar through June 30 th exceed the total work days Not a catch of all potential jobs/employees 32

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING STRSAD.RPT - This is the complete fiscal year-end report for all STRS employees, including all advanced employees. 33

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Check reports for warnings and errors USPS Reference Manual STRSAD lists messages and possible solutions. +STRS+Advance +STRS+Advance 34

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Verify service credit Employees with 120 or more days receive 100% credit Employees with less than 120 days receive credit based on STRS decision tree Employees classified as part-time have service credit based on STRS decision tree Part-time flag on 450 must be set as needed If uncertain of an employees status contact STRS Re-employed retirees will always have 0% credit reported with contributions Calculated service credit for rehired retiree will flag a warning 35

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Staff retiring and rehired in the same fiscal year will appear twice on the report, one line for contributions prior to retirement, one line for after retirement contributions 36

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING STRSAD.RPT Balance the amount showing in the Deposit/Pickup column included on the report Should total the deduction checks already written payable to STRS plus the warrant checks for pick-up amounts 37

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING If not in balance and cant resolve at the district Contact TCCSA as needed STRS can usually find the problem STRS balances by employee as well as by district 38

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Once STRSAD information is correct, run option 2 Sets advance flag on jobs to * (puts new field on JOBSCN) Sets closing date in USPCON Places total accrued contribution amount in USPCON Creates annual reporting submission file 39

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Creates temporary holding file for retirement deduction rates as they were in DEDSCN when option 2 run; known as SAVADV.IDX Advance field appears on JOBSCN Advance error adjustment fields appear on STRS deduction records Creates PayrollCD reports 40

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Print final copies of reports as needed If third party data (ex. Renhill) needs to be included in the advance tape file the file from the third party vendor will need to be merged with the tape file before submission. (STRSMRG can be used) Run ANNSTRSSND to submit annual report to STRS Updates USPSDAT/USPCON information 41

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Run SURCHG Creates a worksheet districts might use for SERS surcharge calculation verification (after FYE) Run USPAUDIT to create USPS submission files for AOS audits Run AUDRPT choosing the O-Official option. Check the payroll CD to verify that the Official AUDRPT copied out properly 42

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING CREATE A HELPDESK TICKET TO REQUEST BACKUP DO NOT PROCEED UNTIL YOU ARE NOTIFIED THAT TCCSA HAS A GOOD BACKUP

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Run QRTRPT Select option F 44

F ISCAL Y EAR -E ND C LOSING Correcting mistakes If FYTD has not been cleared Run CNVADV and unflag all jobs from the advance Correct records Re-run STRSAD option 2 If FYTD has been cleared Contact STRS File corrections with STRS Update 450, 591,691 to reflect contributions and gross amounts so only new earnings appear in the FYTD fields Restore files 45

P OST C LOSING During the payroll process FYTD amounts on the 450, 591 and 691 deductions will not be updated by any accrued earnings or contributions FYTD amounts on the JOBSCN will be updated regardless FYTD amounts on the 450, 591 and 691 deductions are updated only by new earnings and contributions on those new earnings 46

P OST C LOSING During advance cycle certain pay types can not be used on jobs with advance flag set to * REG IRR 47

P OST C LOSING Certain pay types affect balance of USPCON advance amount DCK BCK TRM (usually creates a few cents difference) POF (usually creates a few cents difference) If ITC modifies the pays and pays paid to be different by 1 (forcing a contract pay off) the amount in USPCON may not balance 48

P OST C LOSING Verify each pay the advance amount showing in USPCON is decreasing After all summer pays are complete Verify advance amount in USPCON is zero If not zero, run CHKSTRS and compare employee totals to see whose amount withheld on accrued earnings does not equal the amount STRSAD calculated File corrections with STRS as needed 49

P OST C LOSING Before districts run their first pay for July, they will need to change the 591 STRS % from 10% to 11% using CHGDED, option C – Employee amounts If an employee has Pick Up, the district can manually inflate the amounts on the STRS DEDSCN records For Advance employees, when the Advance is run, the employees will be paying the 10% rate as those files are saved in the SAVADV.IDX files. If they have any new earnings, they will be charged at the 11% rate as of the First pay in July.

P OST C LOSING For Non-advance employees, (such as super) they will be paying the 11% rate as of their first July pay, even if the work days were days worked in June, all will be paid at the new 11% rate