Preparing Payroll for December: A Year-End Plan
December payroll goes wrong in November, while the master file is still fixable. Here is a sequenced plan for 13th month pay, the P90,000 cap, annualized withholding and contribution reconciliation.
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December payroll goes wrong in November, while the master file is still fixable. Here is a sequenced plan for 13th month pay, the P90,000 cap, annualized withholding and contribution reconciliation.
December 24 is a statutory deadline, not a target date. A practical walkthrough of reconciling attendance, the payroll register and the general ledger so year-end variances surface while there is still time to correct them.
The full-year computation is simple; the edge cases are where disputes start. Here is how prorated 13th month pay actually works for mid-year hires, resigned staff, and employees who took unpaid leave.
December compresses a final cutoff, the statutory 13th month release, the last remittances of the year and tax annualization into three short weeks. This checklist walks the close in the order it actually has to happen.
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