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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers.
The IAB Level 2 Certificate in Computerised Payroll for Business is a vocationally-related qualification suitable for those seeking to develop skills in accounting and finance. It covers essential payroll functions, including spreadsheet software, employee record management, and statutory payments. Learners gain practical skills in computerised payroll systems and understand relevant legal requirements.
These are the units Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers. It does the teaching and the mapping. Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Calculate Gross Pay Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Determine basic pay for different payroll periods, based on given information such as hourly rates or annual salaries.
- Calculate overtime payable from given information, including hours worked and overtime rates.
- Calculate additional payments from given information, such as bonuses, commissions, and allowances.
- Implement permanent changes to rates of pay from given organisational information, such as pay rises or promotions.
- Implement relevant statutory additions to pay when entitlement has been determined, such as statutory sick pay or statutory maternity pay.
Composition of an employee payroll record Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the information required to set up a payroll record for a new employee
- Demonstrate how to complete a P11 deduction sheet, or equivalent, for a new employee
- Explain how to deal with income tax forms for a new employee
- Describe the procedure for aligning employer data with HMRC records
Computerised Payroll Skills Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Process information relating to new starters accurately
- Process information relating to leavers accurately
- Process changes to current employees' payroll information accurately
- Process payroll accurately on a pay period basis
- Back up payroll systems when required
- Update payroll systems when required
Computerised Payroll Theory Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Understand potential health and safety and security risks associated with using computerised payroll systems, including data breaches and system failures.
- Maintain the security of data within a computerised environment, including implementing access controls, backups, and disaster recovery plans.
- Understand organisational procedures for processing payroll in a computerised environment, including data entry, validation, and reporting.
- Understand the statutory requirements for submitting information to relevant authorities, such as HMRC, using computerised payroll systems.
Elements of Gross Pay Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components that constitute basic pay for different payroll periods, such as weekly, monthly, or annual salaries.
- Understand the principles of calculating overtime payments, including different overtime rates and how they are applied.
- Know what constitutes gross pay from additional payments, such as bonuses, commissions, and allowances.
- Understand the need for and procedures to make temporary and permanent changes to rates of pay, including the required documentation and approvals.
Fundamentals of employment legislation for payroll Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Know what payroll information is to be prepared and kept by law, including employee records, tax information, and payment details.
- Understand data protection legislation in relation to payroll, including the handling, storage, and security of employee data.
- Know the general principles of employment rights legislation, including minimum wage, working hours, and holiday entitlement.
Spreadsheet Software Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter numerical data accurately
- Use a spreadsheet to enter other types of data accurately
- Edit data within a spreadsheet effectively
- Organise numerical and other data within a spreadsheet to meet requirements
- Select appropriate formulas to perform calculations on spreadsheet data
- Use appropriate data analysis tools to meet requirements
- Select appropriate tools to present spreadsheet information clearly
- Use appropriate techniques to format spreadsheet information effectively
Statutory and non-statutory payments and additions Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the principles of the PAYE system
- Explain the principles of the National Insurance system
- Explain the principles of Student Loan deductions
- Explain the principles of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- Explain the principles of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)
- Explain the principles of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP)
- Explain the principles of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP and SPP(A))
- Explain the principles of Attachment of Earnings Orders (AOE)
- Understand the need to complete period end payroll procedures
Termination of Employment Real unit · Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers
What you'll be able to do
- Define what constitutes a leaver from employment
- Identify the amendments required to a leaver’s final pay
- Understand statutory requirements when processing a leaver's final pay
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Calculate pay
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Senior Global Payroll Specialist
This work can lead into payroll leadership or broader HR operations. It can also lead to specialist technical roles designing payroll systems, or director-level positions overseeing global payroll strategy.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Calculate Gross PayComposition of an employee payroll recordComputerised Payroll SkillsComputerised Payroll TheoryElements of Gross PayFundamentals of employment legislation for payrollSpreadsheet SoftwareStatutory and non-statutory payments and additions
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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You do “Composition of an employee payroll record” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Calculate Gross Pay, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to calculate gross pay accurately, including basic pay for various payroll periods, overtime payments, and additional payments. The unit also covers implementing permanent and temporary changes to pay rates based on organisational information.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for IAB Level 2 Certificate In Computerised Payroll for Business
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers.
- Calculate Gross Pay
- Composition of an employee payroll record
- Computerised Payroll Skills
- Computerised Payroll Theory
- Elements of Gross Pay
- Fundamentals of employment legislation for payroll
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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