Free online payroll courses with certificates

1. Effective Bookkeeping and Payroll

In this highly popular course, you will learn everything from doing payroll for salaried and hourly employees to understanding cash flow in different parts of a business.

2. Payroll Computation and Bookkeeping

With an overview of the US Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this course explains more complex issues like calculating various taxes and ensuring tax compliance.

3. Introduction to Payroll Accounting

Did you know different countries have different terms for the same practices? This course covers payroll in the US, UK and Canada and provides an overview of basic practices.

Being qualified to run payroll means you can administer one of the most critical tasks in any business or organisation: paying correct salaries and wages on time and in compliance with local HR and tax laws. Without a payroll qualification, you could overlook crucial aspects of the job and cost your company good employees or your employees their rightful earnings.

Once you have a payroll qualification, you can apply for jobs such as:

• Payroll administrator
• Payroll co-ordinator
• Payroll assistant
• Payroll clerk
• Wages clerk
• Payroll manager
• Wage officer

The skills you require are:

• Attention to detail
• Mathematical ability 
• Communication
• Discretion
• Honesty
• Administration