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AccountRight and AccountEdge track superannuation through Superannuation payroll categories. If you track your superannuation using Expense payroll categories, your superannuation amounts won't appear in the software's superannuation reports. It will also prevent you from paying your super contributions using Pay Superannuation, the MYOB Super Portal or through M-Powered Superannuation.

To transfer superannuation paid using Expense categories

Once you have set up your superannuation payroll categories (press F1 in your software for information on this), you can record "VOID" paycheques to transfer the Superannuation accrual from the old Employer Expense category to the new superannuation category.

A void paycheque is one where the net pay amounts to zero and all holiday and sick pay accruals are set to zero but then a line of negative employer expense and positive superannuation is included to effectively transfer the accrual amount from one category to another.

In the example shown below, an employee had $250.00 worth of standard superannuation guarantee accrued under the old employer expense category. All ordinary pay categories have been put to zero, negative -$250.00 has been entered against the employer expense category and positive $250.00 entered against the new superannuation category.

Our support note Incorrect Superannuation Calculations has more information on recording void paycheques and adjusting superannuation.

Note: If you are an M-Powered user you will need to remove superannuation accruals that have already been paid from the M-Powered Services centre. Our support note Removing old superannuation amounts from the M-Powered Services Centre has instructions for doing so.

What about Salary Sacrifice and Employee Additional contributions?

In the case of Salary Sacrifice and/or Employee Additional Superannuation, Deduction Payroll Categories would have been used to track these amounts.

Once you have , you would enter a positive figure against the old deduction category to "take the amount out" of the old deduction category and a negative figure against the new Salary Sacrifice category to "put the amount in" to the new correct category.