Why Make Payroll More Difficult?

Payroll can be complicated if you consider the many calculations involved.

But we no longer live in the days of calculating by hand and writing on parchment. Although you can if you wish.

Taxes are nothing new, they have been around for centuries, and are the primary reason for the invention of calculators, spreadsheets, and computer software.

To give you an idea, The CPA Journal article Technology in Accounting History helps explain how we got here after 2000 years.

So if you say payroll is difficult, or rely on comfortable, outdated technology, it's a matter of choice. Web-based payroll technology does the work in a fraction of time, more so than any time in history.

But only if you are willing to change.

Which unfortunately many are not (especially in smaller accounting and payroll firms). If you fall in that camp, resistance to change is nothing new, and goes back to the beginning of time, you are not alone.

It just leaves the door of success open to those that do.

Web technologies have now made payroll so easy anybody can do it. Just click a button or two, let the web servers do the work.

These days, payroll no longer requires a certified payroll specialist, licensed CPA, or experienced bookkeeper.

Payroll only requires someone to know the basics.

Which is not difficult.