QuickBooks Report For Tracking Employee Loans And Advances
When you have employees you sometimes find yourself in the position of needing to help them maintain their focus on doing their job. If an emergency arises between paydays they have several options and here are two of them:
The First Option Is - They get a payday loan from one of the many companies that offer that service.
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If they do it regularly it can cause your good employee to get deeper and deeper in debt which means their cash flow problem gets worse not better.
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When do they visit the payday loan store? If they are paid for travel time to and from the jobsites they will typically do it on your time. See What Is Ten Minutes Costing Your Company and Multiply By Three! Because it will take ten minutes each way to detour to and from the payday advance company plus ten minutes inside the store.
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For Example: You pay your employee $25.00 per hour that means Every Ten Minutes Of Doing Personal Business On Company Time Costs You $5.94 Multiplied By Three Equals $17.82. If Your Company Earns 10% Net Profit Then You Need To Sell Another $178.20 Worth Of Work To Make Up The Loss You Suffered. See The Chart Below:
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Every Ten Minutes Your Construction Worker Costs You $5.94
The Second Option Is - You have a process in your Business Process Management System (BPM) for employee loans or advances, whatever term you use to describe it.
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Understand the Randalism "You can be right or rich...pick one" If providing employee loans goes against your principles don't do it. If it aligns with your principles do it. There is no right or wrong answer.
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Never, ever charge interest on the "loan" they will not like it and they will get even.
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Make it Fast And Easy. Give out cash and have them sign a simple I.O.U. or write a quick note on a piece of paper.
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Understand that unlike a Promissory Note, where the borrower is in control of making repayments, the employer can control repayments of an employee loan. It is very important for you, the employer, to get written authorization to deduct money from any payroll check. You need to be specific about the reason for deduction; repay cash loan / advance.
The employee loan or debt agreement below also makes provision for the full amount to be deducted should the employee resign. The employer would therefore be wise not to extend loans greater than the weekly / monthly salary. A more extensive agreement should be drawn up for longer term or large loans.
Your labor laws may also limit deductions to a percentage of gross remuneration, so check with your local laws or your attorney before extending credit.
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We have included a FREE Sample Employee Loan Agreement Below:
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Check with your attorney or lawyer before using the sample loan agreement
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Put the paper in the Petty Cash box, give it to your bookkeeper or better yet if we are doing your bookkeeping send it to us or send us an email and we will take care of the paperwork for you.
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Give cash, do not write a check because they will simply visit the bank, check cashing store and cost you money like in the example above.
In QuickBooks Setup An Employee Loan Process and the related report to keep track of loans and repayments. The report will appear in QuickBooks as follows:
Now whenever you issue a loan record it in QuickBooks and the report will show an increase in that persons loan account. Whenever a payment is made either through payroll or if they pay it back via cash or check make the appropriate QuickBooks entry and the report will show a decrease in that persons loan account.
Whenever an employee loan account has a zero balance their name does not appear.
Profitable Construction Companies - Have known about and used this process for a long time and now you can too!
We Can Setup These Reports - On QuickBooks fill out the form on the right, call Sharie 206-361-3950 or email her at sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com
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