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  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    We had this very issue. We gave all employees a grace period, I believe it was one year to bring the balances down. Once the grace period was over, the policy was enforced. Also, we did not allow anyone that retired/termed to receive a payout in excess ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    We are tracking separately and will then make a one-time adjustment at year-end. This will be easier than asking the department heads to learn the FLSA versus CBA rules. My accountant created a spreadsheet, one for each CBA (We have 3 that each have ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Hi Samantha, I chose to track OT on a quarterly basis, but will be adding the qualified overtime amount at the end of the year in one import to our ERP system. So after each quarter, I run a report of the hours needed to calculate the overtime, work ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    For those of you that aren't FLSA compliant for overtime reporting in your payroll systems and are manually tracking that amount to report on the W-2s at the end of 2026, are you going to make a one-time adjustment in payroll at the end of each year or ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    When GASB 87 was issued we had just increased our capital asset threshold from $5,000 to $10,000, so we used our new standard of $10,000. With GASB 96 we used $50,000 due to the administrative burden that the standard creates. Our auditors didn't even ...

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