Generating Control Totals

This topic discusses how to generate control totals.

To ensure an accurate conversion, generate control totals from the previous system and accounting records before you begin converting data.

The following totals are usually sufficient to detect problems that are encountered during the conversion process:

U.S.

Canada

Gross wages (all payroll-processed earnings).

Gross wages (all payroll-processed earnings).

Federal W-2, FICA and FUTA wages.

Taxable wages.

Withheld tax totals by each tax type (FWT, SWT by state, FICA, SDI, and so on).

Withheld tax totals by each tax type (CIT, QIT, CPP, QPP, and EI).