Session 1
Thursday  10:45-12:00

Session 2
Thursday 1:15-2:30

Session 3
Thursday 2:45-4:00

Session 4
Thursday 4:15-5:30

Session 5
Friday 9:00-10:15

Session 6
Friday 10:30-11:45

Session 7
Friday 1:00-2:15

Workshop

“A”

Petoskey Room

“Managing Unemployment Costs”

Howard I. Goldman, CPP

Director of Payroll, Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc.

·  Unemployment compensation system overview

·  How MI allocates benefit costs and calculates tax rates

·  How to control unemployment costs

“Multi-State
Taxation”

Emily Rook, CPP

Consultant, Circle Financial Services

·  Avoid the State of Confusion!

·  For which state do you withhold income tax?

·  Rules of Residency, Reciprocity and Resident/Non-Resident taxation

“Introduction to Payroll, Part 1”

Howard I. Goldman, CPP

Director of Payroll, Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc.

·  Employee vs. Independent Contractor

·  Basics of FLSA

·  FICA and income tax withholding

·  Deferred compensation and cafeteria plans

·  Payment issues

·  Deductions from pay

“Introduction to Payroll, Part 2”

Howard I. Goldman, CPP

Director of Payroll, Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc.

·  Taxable/nontaxable compensation

·  Benefits

·  Unemployment taxes

·  Depositing and reporting taxes

·  Basics of payroll systems

· Recordkeeping

“Michigan Social Security Number Privacy Act”

Kalyn D. Redlowsk

Attorney, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC

·  How to comply with the Act

·  Practical suggestions on how to protect your employees’ personal information

“MiSDU Update”

Cheryl Webster, Customer Services Specialist

Burton Parsons, Operations Systems Specialist

Michigan State Disbursement Unit, Office of Child Support/MiSDU

·  Overview of MiSDU statistics

·  Employer payments

·  MiSDU disbursements

·  Employer Job Aid

“MiSDU Update”

Cheryl Webster, Customer Services Specialist

Burton Parsons, Operations Systems Specialist

Michigan State Disbursement Unit, Office of Child Support/MiSDU

·  Overview of MiSDU statistics

·  Employer payments

·  MiSDU disbursements

·  Employer Job Aid

Workshop

“B”

Cheboygan Room

“Planning for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Are You Ready?”

Kevin Maiman

Business Development Manager, PayTech, Inc.

·  Basic information about the risks and necessity to ensure that you work to develop a sound Disaster Plan

“Expatriate Payroll”

Larry Conroy, CPA
 Senior Manager

Blake Springer, GPHR Manager
Deloitte Tax, LLP

·  Employee tax profile set-up for long and short term international assignees from the US

·  Tax file documents for international assignees

·  Review of compensation items for inclusion into the W-2 wages

“Preparing for FPC & CPP Exams”

E. Dina Rand, CPP

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Tax, LLP

·  Review of the exams: structure, scoring and registration

·  Preparation for taking the exams

·  Practice exam

·  Q & A

“Planning for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Are You Ready?”

Kevin Maiman,

Business Development Manager, PayTech, Inc.

·  Basic information about the risks and necessity to ensure that you work to develop a sound Disaster Plan

“Paycards 101:
A High Level Overview of Paycard Offerings”

Robert Holloway

Regional Manager, TALX, an Equifax Company

·  Thorough overview of paycard types

·  Review electronic paystubs and paycards and how to use both in your 100% direct deposit effort

“Employee Self-Service:
Is there REALLY such a thing?”
Robert Holloway
Regional Manager, TALX, an Equifax Company

·  Challenge the way you look at your employee population in determining their capabilities for self-service

·  Ideas for creating a more efficient payroll department

·  YES!  There really is such ‘a thing’

“Data and Records Management”
and the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on E-Discovery”
Carol Romej
Shareholder, Co-Chair of Electronic Records Management, Butzel Long

·  New FRCP rules are cause for revisiting your data and records management policies and procedures

·  It is critical to demonstrate a good-faith and well-documented effort toward compliance of the new rules

Workshop

“C”

Saugatuck Room

“Identity Theft/ Fraud”

Helen Wu

Detective

Metropolitan Fraud & ID Theft Team, Grand Rapids Police Department

“Annual Payroll Process Checkup”

Cynthia Thompson, AAP, CCM

Education & Training Director, The Payments Authority/

·  Is it time to tighten up procedures and exercise your safety measures?

·  Review the areas that could cause heartburn and heartache

“Paycard Overview”

Lori Ford

Territory Manager, Money Network

·  Learn what paycards are and why so many employers are choosing to offer them

·  Learn about the requirements for the employer and the employee when selecting a vendor

“From Kindergarten Through Retirement: Learnings for the Payroll Professional “

Roger A. Smith, CPP

Consultant, PayrollProf.com

·  Apply lessons learned in Kindergarten to our lives as Payroll Professionals

·  Lessons include: Play Fair, Zip your Zipper, Share Everything and Put Things Back Where They Belong

“DOL Update”

Mary O’Rourke

Assistant District Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Wage Hour Division/

·  Recordkeeping requirements for hourly & salaried employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act

·  Hourly & salaried employees and overtime pay

·  When deductions from salaried employees pay are allowed

“SSA Update”

Patricia Hayes

Program Expert, Social Security Administration

·  Social Security Number Verification Service(SSNVS)

·  Updates on current issues and/or legislation

“IRS Updates”

Susan Rahn

Stakeholder Liaison, Internal Revenue Service/

·  Reporting agents can now use e-services to communicate with the IRS via e-mail

·  Find out what other resources are available for payroll professionals