Payroll Accounting / Payroll Advanced (Cert.) :
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The structure of continuing education, further training for payroll experts varies depending on the training provider.

For example, a course includes the basics of HRM and personnel administration, payroll accounting and salary administration, social insurance, withholding tax and international salary management, as well as employment law.

The contents of another course to become a payroll specialist are: Social insurance, law and wages, wage processing, wage policy and wage forms, international salary management, cross-border social insurance, withholding tax, payroll accounting and auditing.

Our recommendation is therefore to contact the provider directly to get answers quickly, of course without any obligation - using our contact form or the "Ask a question" button.

The content of continuing education, further training to become a Payroll Manager can vary depending on the provider, so it is important to obtain all the important documents from all suitable schools before registering and to study and compare them carefully. Possible content includes the basics of personnel administration and human resource management (HRM), employment law and law, payroll accounting and payroll administration, international salary management, social insurance and withholding tax. Auditing, salary policy and salary forms can also be part of the Payroll Specialist course.

There are the following options for further training as a payroll accountant:

• Payroll accounting course for a specific program (Abacus, Profixx, Bexio, Banana, Sage etc.) e.g. for SME payroll accounting
• Payroll Manager
• Payroll Specialist or Payroll Expert

The following further training opportunities are available in accounting:

• Accounting clerk (Kaufmännischer Verband Schweiz, VEB or Edupool)
• Fiduciary clerk (Edupool, EXPERTsuisse, Kaufmännischer Verband Schweiz)
• Payroll Manager, Specialist or Expert (Edupool)
• Finance and accounting specialists with a federal certificate
• Fiduciary with federal certificate
• Expert in accounting and controlling with a federal diploma
• NDS HF in Management and Leadership, specialization in Financial Management

Each training provider is responsible for regulating the content of the payroll accounting training. Possible contents taught include the recording of company data, personnel master data and insurance master data and their maintenance (preparatory payroll accounting), the management and allocation of insurance solutions, wage parts management, the processing of the payroll run through payroll accounting posting records and printing of payroll accounting as well as year-end evaluations in the context of payroll accounting.

The content of the individual courses and courses in continuing education, further training in accounting can differ, so it is best to ask the respective schools directly about the learning objectives and content of the courses on offer. Balance sheet and income statement, double income statement, general ledger, journal, account and payroll accounting are often the subject of a course, as are depreciation, interest calculations, foreign currencies, purchase and sale of goods, VAT, provisions, losses on accounts receivable, del credere, accruals and deferrals, costing and securities. In the case of more extensive continuing education, further training may also include legal theory in addition to financial accounting, VAT, withholding tax and payroll administration. The content of the edupool.ch training course for accounting clerks includes financial accounting, financial management, direct taxes, cost accounting, VAT, as well as law and social insurance.