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Mastering the fundamentals of Excel is essential to meet this responsibility. But you don’t need to become an Excel expert . Here’s a best practice strategy for performing the required balancing and checking with minimal Excel knowledge.  \nThe Balancing Process  \nThe goal of the balancing process is to reconcile YTD values from your payroll registers with 3 other sets of values:  \n The source deductions made during the year to the CRA and/or Revenue Quebec;  \n The T4s or RL-1s you’re preparing to file; and  \n The payroll expenses recognized in your General Ledger .  \nStep 1: Create the Right Excel Spreadsheets  \nYou can achieve this goal by using an Excel spreadsheet that records report totals from each payroll register as it’s produced during the year . Create such a spreadsheet or Excel file for each tax year and split the Excel files into separate“sheets .” Rather than the Excel default names (i.e . , Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3, etc . ), we’re going to create and name these sheets as follows:  \n “Register” for the transaction values entered from each payroll register;  \n “PD7A” for the source deduction amounts remitted to the CRA;  \n “T4” for the T4 box totals we’ll match against your T4 slip and Summary totals;  \n “Expense” for the payroll expenses recognized in the General Ledger . Note: If you have payrolls in Quebec, then you’ll need additional sheets:  \n “TPZ-1015” for your remittances;  \n “RL-1” for your RL-1 slips and summary; and  \n “T4A” if such slips are required; and/or  \n “RL-2” if those slips are required.  \nStep 2: Enter Payroll Register Totals as Payrolls Are Run  \nMake it part of your payroll cycle to enter the run totals into the Register sheet of  \nthe Excel file for the year concerned once a payroll is finalized . The Register sheet should have a separate column for each earning, deduction, benefit or employer contribution value required to complete the other sheets listed above . How you do this will depend, in part, on what information is available on your payroll registers.  \nScenario : Assume a payroll register that shows sub-totals for gross taxable, gross pensionable and gross insurable income . On the Register sheet, label columns A, B, and C as ‘Taxable’, ‘Pensionable’ and ‘Insurable’ respectively. Then, on the other sheets, you can build formulas that reference these values . For example, you can map the ‘Taxable’ column on the Register sheet to the ‘Box 14’ column on the T4 sheet .  \nHowever, despite the work, it’s probably going to be best to enter each needed earning, deduction, benefit or employer contribution value in a separate Register sheet column . This will make it easier to map Register values to the Other Information codes used on the T4 . Make each of your transaction codes the column heading. For example, if ‘REGHRS’ is your earning code for regular wages, use this code as a column header .  \nI find it much easier if the 1st sheet row is reserved for column header labels, and rows 2 onward are used for data values, one row for each set of payroll register values . Avoid blank rows as irregular data patterns will make sorting nearly impossible and will make it more difficult to build the formulas needed .  \nBuild the formulas needed  \nTo keep things simple, on the other sheets in the Excel file, we’re going to follow the same practice that one row represents the results of a single payroll register run . As such, each sheet in the file is going to have the same structure: the 1st row is used for column headings, the 1st payroll register is on row 2, the 2nd payroll register on row 3, etc . With this structure, you can simply copy the formulas down, row by row as needed .  \nFor example, assume we are building the formulas in the T4 sheet to reference the necessary Register sheet values . 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