Service noteyear-end-close
Year-end close and EA-form accuracy
The twelve monthly registers, PCB already remitted, and the EA draft are forced to agree before forms leave the building.
Timed for October–February; scoping starts from a prior-year EA pack.
Year-end in a payroll suite is a second set of programmes, not a reprint of December. Benefits in kind, club subscriptions, share awards, and tax-borne-by-employer flags often sit in modules that the monthly processor never touches.
We tie the monthly registers to the EA draft, then to PCB already paid, then to any CP38 or additional deduction the suite stored outside the main tax table. Differences are listed by employee with the screen that holds the stray amount.
Scope we keep tight
This is not a personal-tax advisory assignment. We test whether the application assembled the employer statement correctly from the data it already holds. Where a benefit was never captured, we record it as a completeness gap for HR to repair — we do not invent the missing figure.
Finance receives a close checklist they can reuse the following January, annotated with the jobs and reports this suite actually provides.