Creating a clearing account will allow you to 'pay' your employees during payroll processing. The account will then be balanced out with a Receive Money transaction later on in this process.

1. Create a new asset account, and select Bank in the Account Type field. Use an account number and name that best suits your business. In our example, we'll use 1-1125 and Payroll Cheque Clearing respectively.
   
   
2. Click OK to create the account.
3. Access the Payroll Linked Accounts window (Setup > Linked Accounts > Payroll Accounts).
4. In the Bank Account for Cheque Payments field, select the account created above. Refer to our example below.
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5. Click OK to create the link.

Process your payroll as your normally would. Because we linked the accounts above, the employees paid by cheque will be paid from our clearing account.

In preparation for the next step, print or display a Payroll Activity Summary report (Reports > Index to Reports > Payroll > Employees > Activity Summary > Display). Make sure you enter the pay date in both the Dated From and To fields to select just those most recently paid.

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In the example above, let's say that the first two employees (Mary Jones and Alan Long) are paid from General Cheque Account 1 and the other two (Peter Parker and Sue Smith) are to be paid from General Cheque Account 2.

These chequing accounts should already be setup in your company file. If not, see Set up accounts for more information.

From the previous step, we know that our clearing account has a negative balance from paying the employees. We'll now balance that account and match the correct cheque account to each employee.

1. Create a Receive Money transaction. 
   • In the Deposit to Account field, select the Payroll Cheque Clearing account. Notice the negative balance.
   • Enter the total amount in the Amount Receivedfield. This will be the positive equivalent for the balance of the Payroll Cheque Account.
   • Enter the pay date in the Date field.
   • Enter a description in the Memo field, such as "Paycheque Allocation" and include the pay date. This will help you when reconciling these transactions.

   • Enter each paycheque. Make an allocation to the appropriate cheque account. Ensure tax code N-T is used.Image Removed

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2. Click Record. You will see the balance displayed along the top right return to $0.00.
3. Click Cancel to close out of the Receive Money window. 

Because the individual cheque allocations are credits to the bank accounts, these will appear as withdrawals in the Reconcile Accounts window. The payment of different employees from different bank accounts has been achieved through one transaction.

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To make the Reconciliation Report display the Allocation Memo, access the Reconciliation Report (Reports > Index to Reports > Banking > Reconciliation Report > Display Report).

Once you're in the report:

1. Click Customise.
2. Click the Report Fields tab.
3. In the Available Fields list, select Allocation Memo.
4. Click Display. The Allocation memo column will be displayed in your report.