When my payroll posts to Quickbooks® it is creating new accounts for some items. Why?
A Chances are that you have items linked to accounts in your Quickbooks® program with symbols in the account names. For example, you might have an account set up in Quickbooks® titled Payroll Liabilities – Medicare & Social Security. The account names that are used for payroll should be numbers and letters only. The – (hyphen) and the & (ampersand) sign need to be removed from the account names in QB. Then the changed chart of accounts needs to be exported to payroll. This is done when you click on the payroll button/icon in QB and get the message to launch Aatrix and export the chart of accounts. IF YOU DO NOT get that message you will have to export the chart of accounts from QB to the desktop, and from there import it into the payroll program. In the Process Payroll window, click on the Send Post button in the toolbar, and then go into the Designate Accounts section. If you need to import the chart of accounts, click on the Import Chart of Accounts and import. Go to the existing lin
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