NetPay Compass and VarianceTracker: Elevate Your Digital Payroll Cost Controlling

Many companies face the challenge that DATEV provides only limited reports and data exports when it comes to their payroll solutions.

Detailed reports must be manually compiled from multiple sources, and time-consuming and critical checks are carried out using PDF documents or risky spot checks. This makes it difficult to efficiently assess the accuracy of the data provided and the changes between two accounting periods.

This is where BDO’s digital review and quality assurance tools come into play:

Efficient payroll accounting with NetPay Compass

All payroll costs and liabilities at a glance

Our digital Gross-to-Net solution, NetPay Compass, offers a comprehensive overview of all payroll components per month, whether it’s a cost-effective salary component, deduction or liability.

As a result, you can see your total aggregated monthly payroll costs, including all additional employer contributions per employee and for each salary component. Instantly see the deductions and payments they lead to. Use our standardized NetPay Compass to reduce time and effort required for the tedious manual creation of analysis, controlling reports, payment lists, and more.

Features and Advantages:

All payroll costs and resulting liabilities summarized in one table
Basis for controlling reports, analysis, and payment lists
Usable with all DATEV LODAS payslips, including trial payslips
Optional: Corrections for previous months displayed separately
Delivered as EXCEL-Spreadsheet by default

Comprehensive Payroll Analysis with VarianceTracker

All changes between two accounting periods at a glance

VarianceTracker compares all data points from two payroll periods and displays all relative and absolute differences and changes in tabular form. This includes all payroll data at an employee level and aggregated at a company level, as well as changes to the HR master data at an employee level.

As a result, you are provided with a precise controlling, research and auditing tool with high information density. Since the report can be created with trial payslips, it allows you to analyze relevant data before finalizing the current payroll period and react early.

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