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If this is not the computer that will be hosting this gift, then save the file to the left to a disk, go to the computer you will be using it on, and then save it to the desktop and run it from there...

Many have recommended that we bill for this. (!)  Since there is really no proprietary skill involved in this spreadsheet, and it was not mandatory, and it serves as a complement to WinPower, and it might be of real service -- this is exactly why we would not want to charge... 

This Tax2012e.exe ('e' for early release) replaces the previous version Tax2012p.exe ('p' for provisional). Please run this again even if you've run the previous version for Tax 2012. IRS published "Early Release Copies of the 2012 Tax Withholding," and New York State along with Yonkers published the new tax tables for 2012  so we updated our tax table file (New York City hasn't published since May 2011). Please stay tuned if you choose to download this early version since there might be some changes in early January.

You need to run this program on every computer that hosts WinPower.

Version 806 is now available (as of 2/2/2012). It includes some minor fixes for PO2.
Version 805 now lets you exclude Social Security Tax (a part of FICA) from deduction while letting them pay other taxes including Medicare part of FICA. This is for workers who earned more than certain amount in gross income who worked in multiple schools. For workers who worked only in one school, WinPower will automatically figure out when to stop deducting Social Security Tax. To exclude Social Security Tax, go to frame 4 of Payroll screen and put the check in checkbox "No Social Security Tax."

Version 804 now lets you exclude FICA from deduction while letting them pay other taxes (for exchange student as employee).
Version 803 repairs anomalies when going to print Earnings Reports and PO66s.
Version 802 now gives you Friday as the Payroll Check Date by default.
Version 801 also has a fix for below rate employee savings amount for Year End DAR posting. Also Version 801 correctly omits PBs (Personal Business days) that are older than 4 years ago from PO66.
Version 800 updates the Chancellor to Ms. Cathleen Black...
Version 800 also gives you the ability to Hide Vendors from the PO2 list box, and has an improved Combine/Rename function (in the Vendors frame of the PO2 Window).

WinPower now does 2-Week PO1s. Please download version 800 (to the left) for this.  The modules are date-sensitive. That is, for 2010 and before, it will do 28-day PO1s, but for 2011 and beyond, it will do 14-day PO1s.

This was very labor intensive to do. Payroll and PO1 are really part of the central nervous system for WinPower.

There is more work that we need to do, but we believe the PO1-production aspect is complete. As happens so often working with DOE-mandated changes, we have not had the time to field-test this the way we like. Therefore, BEFORE INSTALLING VERSION 800, BACK UP YOUR DATA. This will protect you against any problem that may emerge. If you notice any problem, please call immediately to inform us of it. We will get out an alert soon afterwards.  Just the same, we've been testing this in-house like crazy, and we believe the code to be sound.

We have forced our "Bulletin Board" to display itself for the next two weeks. We apologize for the intrusion to those who have it hidden.

Since there is more work to be done, we will not yet distribute the invoice for this (and the other DOE and union mandated stuff that we still need to get to).
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To enact the 2% cut in the Social Security Tax (part of FICA), you MUST (must!) run WinPower Version 799 or above !!!  We wrote this to be date-sensitive, so it will kick in on the first payroll of 2011.  It won't apply itself to prior payrolls.

Try running this update right from this page, and if that doesn't work, (save it and/or download it to your c:\2m subdirectory, and run it from there...

It is ok to skip 802 and 803 and everything else before 804.exe !
Version 798 allowed you to do your banking on the day before the Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday.  If you have "Do AutoThurs" checked in the file menu, it posted your Day Money and Pensionable Salary on Wednesday, November 24, 2010, and offered you the opportunity to do your banking on Wednesday, too.  If you didn't wish to do banking, you could have hit "Escape" on the keyboard (upper left hand corner).

Version 791 introduced a new module to allow for batch entry for retro checks.  You can avail yourself of this feature by going to the Banking Window, and clicking 6. Retro, in the lower right hand corner of the Banking Screen.  Remember -- this is a young release, so back up your data before using it !
 

790.exe included a very important fix -- that will remain in 791, and all future releases -- that relates to rare, but significant, data loss after "Repairing Database."

How to "Beta-Test" (field test) if you want to, ever:

Bill Gates says:  "Only the paranoid survive."  Eric Mandelbaum of 2M says:  "Only those programmers with low self esteem, and thinking disorders about what are appropriate work hours survive."

This is the starter program for your PO66s.  If you have your PO66s up and running through WinPower, do not run this program !!
Also see the following page:  po66.htm (click)

Notes from Prior Years:
This program is for use ONLY for those who HAVE NOT started using the PO66 component of WinPower, but would like to.  Please download this program to your desktop, and then read the "PO66 Primer" page (po66.htm).  This page has instructions for using PO662011.exe.  It also includes instructions for doing 2nd checks for employees who have worked through their vacations, while providing instructions for posting a PO1 note to the effect that an employee has taken un-reimbursed vacation days.

This is the program that updates School Holidays, and also the State Insurance Fund Rates that are universal to all Custodians. (**HDAY2011A.exe has corrected number for SIF rate.)

 After running this program is a good time to update the rates that are unique to you.

While you may not be using the PO67 component of WinPower, nor the State Insurance Fund component, WinPower is keyed to these values in many other spots.  So this is something you must do !!

Make sure you run HDAY2011A.exe on all of your computers that host WinPower.

If this is not the computer that will be hosting this gift, then save the file to the left to a disk, go to the computer you will be using it on, and then save it to the desktop and run it from there...

Many have recommended that we bill for this. (!)  Since there is really no proprietary skill involved in this spreadsheet, and it was not mandatory, and it serves as a complement to WinPower, and it might be of real service -- this is exactly why we would not want to charge... 

To enact the 2% cut in the Social Security Tax (part of FICA), you MUST (must!) run WinPower Version 799 or higher!!!  We wrote this to be date-sensitive, so it will kick in on the first payroll of 2011.  It won't apply itself to prior payrolls.

Everyone needs to run Tax2011.exe on every computer that hosts WinPower.

This program reflects the wage increase for Local 94 titles.  WinPower needs to be closed when you run this program, and it needs to be run for each of your schools,

Error Alert !! If you ran SC942006.EXE -- and not SC9406B.EXE -- and you have Local 74 Below Rate people, you will notice that your 74 Below Rate employees have had their below rate status eliminated.

UPDATE: Automated remedy:  Run the program to the left, and the problem is fixed.  You will still need to void and re-do the checks for the 74 BR employees whose check were incorrectly processed.

If you tried this, and nothing happened, download, and try again...  Wouldn't you know it, but we loaded the 74 program, and not the 94 program (!)

Look for 786.exe (coming soon), which will also effect the remedy...

  The manual remedy:

1. Void the checks for below rate employees.

2. Go into Staff Title window.
3. Click the below rate employee and delete the title of most recent effective date (08/25/2006), which now shows wrongly full rate.
4. Delete that title.
5. Do the same for all below rate employees
6. Do the payroll again.
7. You don’t need to download SC9406A

You cannot imagine our horror about all this.  It may not mean much, but we offer our most profound apologies...

"Cheap Lemon Printer Slowdown" – We have changed the checkbox for this, so the check does not hold.  That is, the few people who need this feature will have to re-check this box each time they do a PO1.  That will spare the dozens of others who have and will check it inadvertently, and then have to figure out what on earth is going on, while they hit the 'Enter' key dozens of times...  (Sorry)

We think Custodian Pay Stub has settled down, too, and we wrote code to correct as much as we could.  Please let us know how the next posting goes...

Our email of 1/2/6 mentions the desire of some of your colleagues to have our fee disallowed. (!)  Click here for our defense, where you can pick up ammunition if you care to argue against disallowing the fee...  My favorite reasons are #7, #15, #23 and #24.
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As you probably already know, we have been required to re-work some of the most basic components of WinPower, in anticipation of as-yet unconfirmed changes to the way you do your payroll, DAR, PO1 and more.  We understand these changes have already gone into effect, but that you, too, are not aware of them.

Re-working and retro-fitting central, core modules in WinPower that have not been touched in seven years, to introduce new fields, and new tables and enacting entirely new additional ways of entering staff, computing payroll and computing the DAR is not "updating" the program.  And so we have decided to charge for this.  There are many, many factors to consider in making this difficult decision, and so, in order to prevent you from missing the very important updates below (which are covered by the annual fee), we have dedicated an entire web page to this.  Please click here.  (You can also see what Kai has to say about all this there...)

To review the details of all the End-of-Year procedures, click here.