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Professional Certificate · Bachelor's level · CPP-01
Payroll Processing
For: Personnel administration assistants and officers, accountants and managers of small organisations who prepare the payroll.
Learning outcomes
- Collect and check variable payroll items.
- Calculate gross pay, contributions, deductions and net pay, applying the collective agreement and the official scales in force.
- Prepare a full month's payroll and check its consistency.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Payroll cycle: collection, checking, calculation, validation, payment, archiving; collection and checking of variable items. |
| Week 2 | Calculating gross pay: basic salary, overtime, bonuses, allowances, absences; rules on working time and overtime premiums taken from the texts in force. |
| Week 3 | Contributions due to IPRES and CSS, income tax withheld from salaries, salary instalments and advances; calculating net pay. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: a full month's payroll for a fictitious company, consistency checks and justification of the calculations. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): a full month's payroll for a fictitious company; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). Up-to-date rates and scales are provided by the teacher, based on the official texts.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Payroll Set-up and Control
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-01C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Setting up payroll software or a payroll spreadsheet.
- Consistency checks and diagnosis of anomalies before closing.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Regular use of a spreadsheet; administrative or accounting experience assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management, within a period set by the certificate regulations.