2013 Payroll Tax Update–Round 2

It’s that time of year again! Time to change the payroll tax tables, and then change them again.

Round 1 of the 2013 payroll tax tables adjusted the employee FICA percentage back to 6.2% but did not include changes to the withholding tables themselves. Terry Heley at Microsoft sent out an email yesterday evening letting us all know that they are still on track to release Round 2 of 2013 tax update today or tomorrow.

Another issue coming up is that the employer and employee FICA amounts are not coming out the same even though they are the same percentage. For example, I put in a gross pay of $1,000 and the system calculated the employer FICA at $62.00 and the employee FICA at $62.01. This is frustrating, but you are not doing anything wrong.

Terry tells us there is ‘rounding’ code written in the employee side, but not the employer. This issue will be addressed in a Hotfix due out at the end of the week ending 01/21/2013.

Round 2 of the 2013 tax tables will also be issued for version 10 customers, but that will be the last one. The January Hotfix will not be issued to version 10 customers.

Hope you are all having a fun year-end close!

Until next post

Leslie

Illegal address for field 'ICR State Employer Account Number'

 

Here’s another one for the ‘when things go wrong’ collection. You open the company setup window and you get the above message. The entire error message reads like this:

Unhandled script exception:

Illegal address for field 'ICR State Employer Account Number' in script 'ICR_SY_Company_Options_PRE'. Script terminated.

EXCEPTION_CLASS_SCRIPT_ADDRESSING

SCRIPT_CMD_LOAD_ATSI5

After you close the window,  you’ll get a trigger registration error. The culprit is the California DE542 product by Blue Moon Industries. It is easy to fix. All you need to do is go into the Alternate/Modified Forms and Reports window and then mark to use the California DE542 version of the Company Setup window. The screenshot below shows you want it looks like.

Until next post!

Leslie

Published at last! Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications

 

If anyone has noticed my absence on the newsgroup, this is why. This book was published on Christmas Eve! – too late for Santa, but just in time for Valentine’s Day!

You can try out seven different development tools in this book. There’s a small project using each of the following:

• Dexterity
• VS Tools
• Modifier
• VBA
• SmartList Builder
• Extender
• Drill-down builder

If you’ve ever wanted to dabble, now’s your chance to work a little bit with each tool. There’s no other publication like it that includes a little about so many different tools; I hope you enjoy it.

I want to thank my technical reviewers, Mohammad R. Daoud, Jivtesh Singh, Vaidhyanathan Mohan, and Frank Hamelly, for their valuable time, ideas, and insights. This is a much better, more complete book because of them and their willingness to help and advise me. How could I miss with that kind of talent backing me up?

The book was only supposed to be 300 pages, but 300 pages just wasn’t enough. Even at 600 pages, there’s so much more I wanted to add. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how I can make the book better next time.

I look forward to getting back with the Community!

Kind regards,

Leslie

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Calling all Developers! Get ready for GP 2013 - Dexterity Training in St. Lake City! December 17th–21st, 2012

This is short notice, but if you can come, it'll be worth it! All of you VS Tools and VBA programmers, you really need to learn this stuff!

I’ll be doing a one-week class that will incorporate two weeks of training material. If you ever wanted to drink Dexterity through a fire hose, then this class is for you.

We’ll go non-stop for one week passing through very basic scripts, up to cross-dictionary work. No previous experience in Dexterity is required except going through the Quick Start manual that is included with the Dexterity documentation.

You’ll start writing integrating sanSript the first day of class!

This class was architected by T Hoecherl, a senior developer with Premier Computing, Inc. T is the man with all of the answers when it comes to logistics and cost. He can be reached at the following numbers:

Office: 801-487-8400, ext. 130
Cell: 801-259-7786

T tells me his classroom can hold eight people and he has a couple of spots left that he would like to fill. So, come to Salt Lake City on December 17th and get that training you need before GP 2013 hits the shelves!

The one-week Dexterity Basics class is still scheduled to go in Orlando in February of 2013, but here’s an earlier offering if February just seems too far away.

I hope to see you in Salt Lake City!

Kind regards,

Leslie Vail 972-814-8550