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   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 4.5

-       GroupCertReportPNG has been updated to fix the date in the report heading.
-     Payrun now includes loading on an allowance where the pay period is 1 pay or less.
-     Payment Summary Report changes as per ATO Version 10 Specifications.
-     EOY Payment Summary changes for ATO Version 10 Specifications.
-     Help Context ID's have been updated in Casper which allows F1 (Help) to go direct to the screen currently displayed.
-     Date boxes expanded to allow year to show in full YYYY.
-     New options added to salary sacrifice/superannuation levelling utility.
-     Job 75969 - Superannuation Income Stream records have been included in the arrears figures for the EMPDUPE payment summary files.
-     Job 74325 - Delete Auto Timesheets updated.
-     Job 67421 - SQL timeout during payroll processing has been updated.
-     Job 78377 - Change to identify State and Police members retired on grounds of ill health turning age 55 eligible to receive 15% tax rebate.
-     Job 78491 - Change to members turning 60 and who commenced after 1/7/2007 to pay nil tax on pension. 

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 4.3

-       A warning has been added to the archive backup option to warn the user that payroll is in use by another user and it will exit the
       payroll.
-     Adding new awards now allows you to select the "Pay by Shift" option.
-     Option to pay standard pays in a special payrun has been added to the special pay details in the payrun. It has also been included
      in the pay enquiry screen.
-     EFT file path & Filename have been moved from the INI section and is now situated in Status and Paygroups under the Status -
      Options tab.
-     Employee history and leave history now provides grid filtering and searching via right click.
-     Reminders now opens the new employee form.
-     Employee E-Mail field has been added to the export employees option under File - Export.
-     Employee leave history grid hours appears as a negative figure instead of a positive figure. It also appears as a different colour.
      Uses will have to do a View-Grid-Use default layout for this to take effect.
-     Saving payslips location has been modified to work with full paths, UNC paths and a subfolder name, This allows more flexibility in
      saving payslips.
-     SMTP emails have been changed to over ride the default 25 port for a non standard port.
-     Changes have been made to the setting the SMTP parameters in the INI maintenance to make sure the reply address is written in
      the INI file.
-     Added an option to allow for a subject to be entered when emailing payment summaries.
-     Positions grid now sorts in position no order.
-     Leave calculated on some salary employee did not calculate when they took leave in the current pay period.
-     Changes have been done to stop end of year claimable YTD going out of sync.
-     For SQL Databases, an option has been added to determine CPU timing for efficiency.
-     A payrun for an employee can now be reversed by selecting a pay cycle for the employee rather than entering manual
      timesheets.
-     Option to export to excel has been added to the employee and history grids.
-     Payment summary print options have been updated with extra wording to be more user friendly.
-     Ability to reverse a pay based on an employee's pay cycle from the employee history.
-     Timesheets allow for automatic pay rate update to be suspended for selected timesheets.
-     Change to Awards Rates and Position Screen:
      .   Changed force wording on award - allowance, oncosts and deductions to be more meaningful to read "Always Update
          Employees".
      .  Type code has been extended for larger codes.
      .  The attach button has been reworded to say "Attach/Update Lines".
      .  The attach/update lines button now only updates the screen that is highlighted.

    CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 4.2

-       Change to amount updates to allow for up to 4 decimal places on amounts.
-       BSB numbers throughout the system are now forced to include the dash for consistency.
-       Security has been enhanced to restrict users to add employees. There is a tick box added in the user access section for this feature.
-       Change has been made to refresh the rates list on validate or dropdown.
-       Accrued leave report updated to include allowances where they are payable on holidays and long service leave. Does not include allowances on
       sick leave.
-       Proportions expanded to have a description for each account code mask.
-       Pay Types updated to stop selected fields from being available in some cases.
-       Added a warning message to FBT rollover.
-       Updated amount charge grid to allow account to be edited.
-       Changed the amount charge print option to print in landscape.
-       Tax Tables 2009/2010 available for importing.

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 4.1  

Employee
-  Changed the country question to autofill in the employee screen.
-  Modified handling of 100% account code checks in employee screen.
-  Employee screen is limited to allow only 3 times to be opened and it will be cascaded.

History Group
-  Updated payslip history viewing so that it only is prevented if user has enquiry only mode and payslips are saved as batch.
-  Added from and to dates to leave and history grids.

Pay Types Group
-  When adding a new deduction and eft is ticked the main bank account can be used as the default.
-  Employee deductions and oncosts screens modified to default to pay type account code.

Payrun
-  Added warning in payrun for blank account codes in timesheets to ensure costing reports always balance.
-  Modifed payrun checks for invalid account codes to abort payrun if invalid accounts exist (This only applies when linking to Vision accounting
   package).
-  Modified part pay leave calculations to handle employees with standard hours not equal to award hours.
-  A new setting is available to improve payrun update speed when account YTD and MTD figures are not required in Casper.
-  Enhanced error messages to include eft filename if the eft file cannot be created.

Timesheets
-  Changed end of month warning on timesheets that it only comes up when creating new pay cycle rather than on each entry.
-  Added ability to force account codes to add to 100% on timesheets and casual as well as wage and salary employees.
-  Duplicated leave timesheets now sets the pay rate to the rate plus the loading when applicable.

General Changes
-  Modified BSB dropdown to remove validation against bank list.
-  Modified customer/job import to look at multiple vision companies specified on pay groups.

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 4.  

Grid Functions and Sorting Capabilities
-  Allows one click to filters and find/searches quickly.
-  Multi level grouping via the Group By Box.
-  Reordering of columns by clicking on heading and dragging it left or right.
-  Moving around fields is easy to use by clicking on first, last, next and previous buttons.
-  Column chooser by right clicking on the heading to simplify the grid.

Employee Screen Updated
-  Now uses a grid presort and select employees.
-  Ability to preview/print all grids on employee screen as it appears.
-  The option "Show Terminated" has been added to the View/Grid menu. It defaults to ticked and is only visible if the employee grid is open.
-  Grouping via a menu containing the following groups:
   Employee Group
   .  "Payment" now replaces the Pay Method and Pay Rate Tabs.
   .  "Tax Dates" now replaces the Tax and Status/Dates Tabs.
   .  "Accounts" now replaces the Tables Tab - Account Codes Tab.
   .  "Payment" now replaces the Pay Method and Pay Rate Tabs.
   .  New button "Timesheets" will take you directly to timesheets for that employee.
   .  "Leave Schedule" tab has been added.
   Pay Types Group
   .  Pay Type Screens have been updated to use grids.
   .  Double click existing line in grid to edit.
   .  Now use the common New, Open, Save, Undo & Delete from the menu bar for maintenance.
   .  Ability to preview/print all grids on pay type screens as it appears.
   .  Pay Types Group "Allowances, Deductions and OnCosts" now replaces the Tables Tabs - Allowances, Deductions and OnCosts.
   .  Salary Sacrifice option is now on the Pay Type Group not in the History.
   History Group
   .  History Screens have been updated to use grids.
   .  Ability to preview/print all grids on history screens as it appears.
   .  There are now separate screens for history and leave history.
   .  The EFT date has been added to the payslip history grid.
   .  There is now a new tab for Audit which allows the operator to see the history for all changes made in Casper.
   .  There is a new tab for Rate History which allows the operator to see the rate history changes for that employee.
  Notes Group
   .  Double click existing line in grid to edit.
   .  Now use the common New, Open, Save, Undo & Delete from the menu bar for maintenance.

General Changes
-  Award/Rate changes now update the rate history.
-  Calculate new standard pay if special hourly rate changed.
-  On-line Help has been updated with more details on grid/sorting capabilities.
-  Function has been added to allow SQL databases to be copied within Casper.

Reports
-  Reports no longer require a selected report to be deselected before selecting another report.
-  A PDF preview sample can be run for each report.

Timesheets
-  Timesheets for leave has improved calculations for partial days for wage/salary employees.

Payrun
-  OnCosts can now be excluded from a special payrun.

End of Year
-  Payment summaries can now be sorted by award.
-  Payment summaries use yearly deductible and yearly tax offset amounts instead of fortnightly.
-  Payment summaries do not print employees whose gross tax is less than $1.

Salary Sacrifice
-  Modified new pay cycle routine to only update salary sacrifice claimable YTD if the employee has been paid salary sacrifice this year.
-  Backpay amount for salary sacrifice has been implemented.
 

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 3.  

End of Year
-  Exclusions report for payment summaries to show items excluded from Gross Taxable totals.
-  Payment summary changes to meet ATO requirements for version 8 of EMPDUPE.
-  Payment summary amendments for reissues in 2008.
-  Ability to drill down on payment summary report to get details of allowance and deduction totals.
-  EOY automatically changes start of year date and recalculates the Period end dates.
-  Payment Summaries can only be run through End of Year screen and are no longer available in the reports menu.
-  Payment Summary history can now be viewed or printed via the Period End menu.
-  The check data file allows the EMPDUPE file to be stored in a different location which is stored as a user setting.

Payrun
-  Additional warning in the payrun if the paygroup's paid to date is after the current end of year date.
-  Casper prechecks general ledger codes when linking to vision via the autoload utility.
-  The payrun to no longer exclude timesheets if the timesheet effective/from date is ahead of the current pay.
-  Current award/rate/hourly rate is now stored on history entries for reference, audits and reports.
-  The payrun now automatically creates a folder for eft files if it doesn't exist.
-  Payrun "out of balance" message enhanced to give more information about the employee(s) causing the problem.
-  Pay Enquiry enhanced to look more like a payslip.
-  Implemented ability to not print payslips for emailed employees in the payrun and via reports.
-  Enhanced "No employees paid" message in payrun to include some suggestions as to what the likely cause is.
-  Payrun marginal tax calculation on terminations have been updated.

Reports
-  The FBT/YTD employee reconciliation report has been updated to allow for more flexible calculations.

General
-  Option has been added to import YTD figures into employees for new databases.
-  The Employee Tax Free Percentage is included in the export file for merge letters.
-  Modified rate maintenance to prevent a zero amount being entered.
-  Online help is now installed to program files folder, to reduce network security issues stopping the help from being accessed.

Timesheets
-  The ability to calculate loading has been added to the termination timesheet screen.
-  Termination timesheets screen and pay types screen now provide additional feedback when a termination pay type is selected.
-  Amended other leave types to handle part day leave scenarios.

Salary Sacrifice
-  Salary sacrifice ytd updating is now done at the start of a new pay cycle, not after each payrun.
-  Salary sacrifice approval calculations when the number of pay periods is less than 1 have been changed.
   .  The payrun update no longer updates the pay periods left this year.  This is now updated in the "first pay of new period" process.
   .  The process to create timesheets for recurring salary sacrifices has been added to the payrun.

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 2.3.  

Leave Processing and Timesheets
-  Significant changes have been made to the way leave is processed via timesheets and the feedback given to the operator.
-  Timesheets now use the date range on the timesheet to determine the number of days paid in the current pay period and the number of days in advance.
-  "Include in Loading" has been added to allowance pay type to allow specific allowances to be included in leave loading calculations.
-  Timesheet duplication now allows leave loading to be calculated when an annual leave timesheet is duplicated.
-  Timesheet checking of accruals has been enhanced to take into account leave schedules that do not allow negative accruals.
-  The insufficient accrual message now includes more information including the type of leave and the hours accrued for that leave type.

Salary Sacrifice
-  Salary Sacrifice adjustment screens have been updated to include annual leave types.

General
-  The dropdowns in Setup Reports now sorts by classification.
-  Added "Restore Window" option to pulldown menus to allow certain windows (eg employee timesheets) to be resized to their default.


   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 2.2.  

Payrun
-  The payrun now allows oncosts to be paid electronically via EFT's.
-  Modified eft files to include trace account name on detail lines instead of user name. Your EFT setup details should be checked to ensure they have the correct information.
-  Modified payrun to exclude from payrun employee lines if timesheet is after pay period.
-  Added a warning on special pays if a wages employee is selected they must have timesheets to be paid.

EOY and Payment Summaries
-  Payment summaries can now be emailed.

General
-  If login window is shown and you bring another window to the foreground, you can now see Casper in the task bar.
-  The company selection dialogue for sql databases are now displayed in a grid.
-  Updated drop down boxes to show all information for long codes.
-  Deduction lines on employees allows the account code to be changed to a null to allow standard code to be used.

Utilities
-  The option to compress data access databases has been updated.
-  Deleting account code has been updated.
-  Logoff in SQL now allows the current user to login to a different database without re-supplying their username/password.
-  The "enabled" column has been added to amount updates screen.  This allows allowances/deductions/oncosts to be enabled or disabled easily via the grid.
-  The change codes now updates standard timesheets when account codes are edited.
-  Updated opening balance grid to be sorted by clicking column headings.
-  In user access, if employee enquiry only is ticked, the system setting to save payslips individually (rather than as batch) is now automatically enabled for security reasons.
-  If a user has enquiry only access Casper will automatically open the employee screen with the user's employee record open when Casper starts.
-  Copy Pay Type button has been added to the pay type screen. This allows any pay type to be copied to a new pay type.

Maintenance
-  Site maintenance and site allowances are now sorted by code.

Timesheet
-  Timesheet import now uses the oncost's expense account for timesheets to oncosts. A similar change has been done for timesheets to deductions.
-  Modified timesheet duplication to include extra options.
-  Create automatic timesheets has been updated to include an effective and to date options.
-  Timesheet screen has been modified to display a message indicating standard timesheets have been imported.

Simplified Super
-  Modifications for simplified super including:
   .  Modified employee screen to calculate tax free amount if tax free calculation = yes.
   .  Modified cpi update to update tax free amount on employee.
   .  Payment summary changes to handle pre-60 YTD figures.
   .  Simplified super update now copies YTD to pre-60 YTD figures.
   .  End of year now zeroes pre-60 YTD figures.
-  Implemented tax changes for members turning 60.

Reports
-  Employee Notes report can now be printed by Note Type.
-  Report job stream allows the printer to be reset to null.
-  Additional new reports have been added to the report library.
-  Added a parameter for CompanyName on all reports which will make sure the company name prints on all pages not just the first page.
 
   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 2.1.13.

-  Payrun now copies the oncost line eft flag to PayrunEmployeeLines
-  Implemented superannuation EFT payments and the ability to split deductions and on-costs into multiple EFT files for one payrun. This allows
   for split payments to the bank and deferred transmission of EFT files that may not be required until the end of the month.
- The "Update Payrun" message in the payrun now shows details of the EFT files that have been created in this run.

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 2.1.9.

-  The EFT summary page that was previously automatic is no longer automatically printed in the payrun.  There is now a report that can be added to your
   payruncheck or payrun reports that prints similar detail. The report is PYEftFileSum.rpt.
-  Simplified Super has been implemented.
-  Employee Type has been added to the search options on the Find Employee screen. Employee Type is also displayed in the grid.
-  Employee type selection has been added to duplicate timesheets.  In addition to clicking "Duplicate" will not indicate to the user how many employees will be
   updated, giving the opportunity to click "No" to cancel the duplication process.
-  An employee can now be selected from the Find Employee screen by double-clicking the employee in the search results grid.
-  The auto timesheets function now splits timesheets according to the employee's standard allocations, provided the necessary setting exists in the payroll.ini file.
-  Address checking has been improved on the employee screen to confirm with ATO and Australia Post standards.  When the state is OTH, the postcode is now
   automaticlly set to 9999 and vice versa.  When address details are entered, they are no longer permitted to contain full stops or commas.
-  The timesheet screen has been modified to include a warning if a manual tax amount is entered with cents.
-  Payment summaries have been modified for the 2006/2007 year.
-  The "Print Notice to Employee" tickbox has been removed from the payment summary screen. A notice to employee now prints on the employee's payment
    summary.
-  Other income has been implemented on payment summaries.
-  The payment summaries now includes checks for employees who do not have "issue payment summary" ticked. A warning is now displayed if employees exist
    who don't have "Issue payment summary" ticked, but they have a gross ytd figure.
-   "Add to other income" has been added to the allowance pay type screen.
-  The payment summary report now prints other income.
-  Ability to prevent pay types from accruing leave.
-  Implemented "include in hours worked" on timesheet pay type.
-  Implemented voluntary agreement payment summary.
-  Changes to report options screen to include allowance/deduction/oncost code range and pay cycle range.
-  In the report options screen changed various selections to checked list boxes instead of check boxes.
-  Site Maintenance form changes.
-  New Employee Dates report has been added to the reports library.
 

   CASPER Payroll - LATEST RELEASE - Version 2.0.
-  Updated user interface and menu system with improved data access together and search functions.
-  Amount Update Utility has been included and this allows you to do bulk update to amounts that are stored on employees for
   allowances, deductions and oncosts.
-  Reminders allows employee access by double clicking the reminder on the reminder list/popup.
-  A warning has been put on an employee will not get paid if standard hours are set to zero.
-  A warning has been put on an employee if no account codes have been set.
-  In the employee tables you can no longer edit the allowances, deductions and oncosts code if the line has YTD figures.
-  Employee search improvements have been made in the extended search.
-  Employee type now appears in the Pay Rate Tab not the Contact/Stats Tab.
-  Enhanced employee code/surname checking has been added to cater for a wider range of codes.
-  The expiry date on the timesheet screen can now be cleared for existing timesheets not just new timesheets.
-  Pay enquiry now works from the timesheet screen for the current employee displayed.
-  Special payrun employee selections have been updated to work by employee number or name.
-  Context help has been extensively updated to cover new and existing items.
-  The help has been extensively updated to cover new and existing items.
-  If a password is not valid you can retry the login instead of exiting Casper.
-  Feature/Support request form has been added to the Help menu to allow you to send requests while working in Casper.
-  Report Options screen has been updated to include all options, sorting and selections
-  When sending reports to the printer you now get a printer selection and the default printer can be changed if a report is
   displayed to the screen.
-  The report screen has been updated as follows:
   .  Now sorts by classification
   .  Print and preview buttons have been added to the button bar
   .  'Display All' buttons has been added to the button bar and renamed to 'Display All Reports'
   .  A 'Deselect All' reports button has been added to allow multiple reports to be deselected
   .  A report description has been added for each report to provide summary information for each report contents.
-  Report selection screen has new options to show if the report is working on the EFT date or paid to date.
-  If an allowance line is deleted from an award you can now remove unused lines from the employee under this award.
-  New items have been added to the leave request notes. These include ToDate, Authorised by and Leave Type.
-  Super choice reminders is now optional
-  ATO Magnetic Media Form to accompany Payment Summary media is available under the period end menu.
-  Payment summary layout for employees under a Voluntary Agreement have been updated to the latest version.
-  If a company only has one paygroup, the paygroup will be auto filled in a payrun.
-  Multiple lines in timesheet can now be deleted.
-  Site maintenance now displays a drop down on the account code.
-  Timesheet form now displays the current accruals for leave for that employee and warns if insufficient hours for a leave timesheet.
-  Duplicate timesheets now asks to use employee allocation account code.
-  Ability to create automatic timesheets from standard timesheets has been added to data entry.
-  In the award maintenance you can modify standard leave options regardless of whether the leave schedule is ticked or not.
-  Award maintenance now has a copy function for existing award to a new award.
-  Calculator has been added throughout Casper. These are highlighted in purple when you tab the times on a form.
-  Opening Balances Grid has been added to Casper.
-  There is now an option to save payslips as a single file rather than individual payslip files.
-  Timesheets screen will prompt the user before bringing in standard timesheets for terminated employees.
-  Modified payrun to include YTD figures in PayrunEmployeeLines for all deductions that only included a variation amount in the current payrun.
-  Implemented full "tree view" menu. This is different type of menu style available from the View pulldown menu.
 

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