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Welcome to the Ascentis live and on-demand free payroll webinars directory! If you are looking for free payroll webinars submitted to the APA for accreditation, you’ve found your best educational resource. On this page, you can register for upcoming webinars — either submitted or approved — for recertification credit hours (RCHs) from the APA. You can also earn credits from the APA for on-demand, pre-recorded webinars that you can view at your convenience.
Upcoming Live Free Payroll Webinars
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Going Paperless in Payroll
Getting away from paper use in business is both good for the environment and the company’s bottom line! So finding ways to eliminate paper use in the payroll department is something every business should consider. Finding the right methods to decrease or eliminate paper in your day-to-day payroll operations while ensuring that proper compliance requirements are met can be done in any department if you know how!
When: August 6, 2019 at 10am PT / 12pm CT
Duration: 60 minutes
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When: TBD
Duration: 60 minutes
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Duration: 60 minutes
Free Payroll Webinars On-Demand
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10 Common Misconceptions About Payroll and How to Avoid Them
This webinar discusses 10 areas of wage and hour and tax law that when misunderstood or applied incorrectly causes employees to be paid or taxed incorrectly with the resulting penalties, fines and interest levied on the employer. Some of these wage and hour law misconceptions can even cause the employer to overpay employees forcing unnecessarily higher labor costs.
When: On Demand (was live 7/10/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
Paying Overtime Under the FLSA Part 2
This is the second of a two-part webinar that will help you better understand the sometimes confounding requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation Calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees sounds so simple. Common folk lore says you simply count the hours the employee works beyond 40 hours a week. Then you multiply that by 1.5 times their hourly pay rate and you’re done right? Not so fast. The truth is that overtime rules and the mathematics required to arrive at the correct calculation can be extremely tricky.
When: On Demand (was live 6/4/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
Paying Overtime Under the FLSA Part 1
This is the first of a two-part webinar that will help you better understand the sometimes confounding requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation. Calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees sounds so simple. Common folk lore says you simply count the hours the employee works beyond 40 hours a week. Then you multiply that by 1.5 times their hourly pay rate and you’re done right? Not so fast! The truth is that overtime rules and the mathematics required to arrive at the correct calculation can be extremely tricky.
When: On Demand (was live 5/8/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
Wage and Hour Law: California Style
With arguably the greatest amount of wage and hour laws of any state, processing payroll and keeping in compliance with California requirements can be a complex situation.
When: On Demand (was live 4/2/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
W-2’s vs. 1099’s: Understanding Who Should be an Independent Contractor.
This webinar examines how the common law rule is used to determine worker status and which three requirements are used to correctly classify a worker as an independent contractor along with the requirements for when a worker must be classified as an employee. Misclassifying employees and independent contractors are getting more costly by the day. With federal and state agencies joining forces to combat misclassification, fines and penalties have skyrocketed.
When: On-Demand (was live 3/13/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
W-4 Best Practice and Compliance Regulations.
The importance of the Form W-4 is fundamental to the payroll department. This webinar covers IRS Form W-4 for 2019 including the requirements for completing the form properly, handling non-resident aliens, state equivalent forms, record retention and processing the form electronically instead of on paper.
When: On-Demand (was live on 2/28/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
Form W-2 for 2019: All You Need to Know
This webinar discusses the Form W-2 for 2019. Join us to learn best practices for completing and reconciling the form, along with a box-by-box explanation.
When: On-Demand (was live on 1/15/19)
Duration: 60 minutes
Paying Overtime Under the FLSA: Part 2
Penalties for overtime violations can be severe (including imprisonment!) so it’s crucial that these calculations are managed correctly. In Part 2 of this webinar, we’ll dive deeper into calculating overtime pay for nonexempt employees so you can learn more about how to approach this.
When: On-Demand (was live on 12/5/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
Paying Overtime Under the FLSA: Part 1
This webinar discusses how to calculate overtime under the FLSA rules for nonexempt employees, including definitions of overtime and calculation examples. This is the first of a two-part series that will help better understand the, sometimes confounding, requirements and procedures involved in overtime calculation.
When: On-Demand (was live on 11/7/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
The Essentials of Third Party Sick Pay: What Payroll Must Know to Tax and Report Correctly
This webinar discusses the proper taxation and reporting of the fringe benefit known as third party sick pay. It discusses what is and is not third party sick pay, how the taxation is affected by the status of the provider (is or is not the employer’s agent), when this type of payment is taxable and/or reportable and who is responsible for this taxation and reporting.
When: On-Demand (was live on 10/3/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
A to Z of Garnishments Part 3
In parts two and three of the A to Z of Payroll Garnishments we discussed the legal aspects of garnishments, now in our third and final chapter we will turn our attention to the best practices for processing the garnishments within the payroll department.
When: On-Demand (was live on 9/5/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
A to Z of Garnishments Part 2
This webinar concentrates on processing garnishments, other than child support, in the payroll department. We’ll cover the federal rules for creditor garnishments, the IRS rules for federal tax levies, the various aspects of state tax levies, the key points for processing state creditor garnishments, how to handle voluntary wage assignments like payday loans and student loans.
When: On-Demand (was live on 8/15/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
Wage and Hour Compliance: It’s More Than Just Calculating Overtime
By knowing and understanding wage and hour requirements, you can help protect your company from what could be a major financial calamity. This seminar focuses on how to comply with federal and state wage and hour requirements as well as some local regulations that have been instituted recently.
When: On-Demand (was live on 7/2/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
Back to Basics: Withholding, Depositing, and Reporting Federal Taxes
Every payroll professional from the seasoned veteran to the novice beginner must have a solid understanding of these requirements to efficiently process payroll in-compliance. Join us as we cover the foundation of withholding, depositing and reporting federal taxes.
When: On-Demand (was live on 6/20/18)
Duration: 60 minutes
IMPORTANT UPDATE AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 – Ascentis will only offer on-demand webinars for APA or HRCI/SHRM accreditation for views on or before the last day of the month following the live session. (IE: If a live webinar is hosted on September 9, the on-demand webinar will be eligible for certification when viewed on or before October 31.) Certification eligibility will be clearly marked and updated on the on-demand registration pages. Earned program codes and certifications will be distributed via email for each session once per month.