Payroll Management Planning Organisation Implementation Monitoring Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply payroll principles and legislation to ensure compliance with South African tax and labour laws.
• Analyse payroll data and reconcile discrepancies to maintain accurate records.
• Evaluate payroll processes to identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Design a payroll implementation plan that integrates organisational policies and statutory requirements.
• Implement payroll procedures using appropriate software and manual methods.
• Demonstrate the ability to monitor payroll outputs and produce relevant reports for management.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for payroll administrators, HR practitioners, finance professionals, and managers responsible for payroll functions who seek to enhance their payroll management capabilities.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practical sessions are essential to apply payroll concepts in realistic scenarios. Learners will use payroll software to process payroll, generate reports, and reconcile data, reinforcing theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience.

Practical Activities

• Practical 1: Setting Up Employee Master Data — Learners set up employee profiles in payroll software, including personal details, tax directives, and benefits. (4h)
• Practical 2: Processing a Full Payroll Run — Learners process a complete payroll cycle: capturing time data, calculating earnings and deductions, and generating payslips. (8h)
• Practical 3: Statutory Returns Preparation — Learners prepare EMP201 and EMP501 returns from payroll data, and generate IRP5 certificates. (6h)
• Practical 4: Payroll Reconciliation and Error Correction — Learners reconcile payroll totals, identify discrepancies, and correct errors using reversal and adjustment entries. (4h)
• Practical 5: Complex Scenarios and Audits — Learners handle termination calculations, fringe benefits, and respond to a mock SARS audit request. (2h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.