Learn how to execute the payroll cycle accurately, efficiently, and in compliance with common payroll requirements. In this course, you'll build practical knowledge of payroll processing, time and attendance tracking, employee onboarding, payroll documentation, payroll systems, and year-end payroll activities that are essential to the work of a Payroll Specialist.
You'll explore each stage of the payroll process, from collecting and validating employee data through calculating pay, managing deductions, processing payroll, and supporting required payroll reporting activities. You'll also examine important payroll variables, including employee leave, timekeeping practices, compensation changes, tax-related considerations, and year-end responsibilities such as W-2 preparation and other reporting requirements.
What makes this course unique is its end-to-end view of payroll operations and its focus on the real-world responsibilities Payroll Specialists encounter throughout the payroll cycle. Developed by ADP, a recognized leader in payroll and human capital management, the course provides practical insights into payroll administration while helping you understand how accuracy, compliance, and effective processes contribute to organizational success.
Whether you're pursuing an entry-level payroll role or expanding your understanding of payroll operations, this course will help you build a strong foundation in payroll processing, payroll compliance, payroll reporting, and payroll administration.
Beginner·Course·12 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed May 10, 2025
Overall great course! Very easy to understand. The review questions and discussion posts are helpful in testing your knowledge.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 20, 2025
Excellent course, covers all the basics of payroll.
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 31, 2024
The Payroll Cycle course is an extraordinary course which helped me understand minute aspects of Payroll in detail
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 23, 2024
Very educational and helpful!! I am enjoying this learning process and will definitely stick with this!!!
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Nia
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·Reviewed May 11, 2025
Overall great course! Very easy to understand. The review questions and discussion posts are helpful in testing your knowledge.
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Bhargavi
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·Reviewed Nov 1, 2024
The Payroll Cycle course is an extraordinary course which helped me understand minute aspects of Payroll in detail
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Eduardo
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 19, 2025
This course is great. It made me feel more interesting about payroll than ever before. I learnt a lot. Thanks.
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Danielle
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 24, 2024
Very educational and helpful!! I am enjoying this learning process and will definitely stick with this!!!
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Mr.
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·Reviewed Jul 2, 2026
May you be blessed, and may your efforts and outstanding lectures be blessed.
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Walter
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 20, 2025
Excellent course, covers all the basics of payroll.
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Angel
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 28, 2025
Great. Everything an entry level could ask for.
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Monica
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 1, 2025
good, informational for beginners
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Laverne
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·Reviewed Feb 8, 2025
Enjoyed the training
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Steph
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·Reviewed Oct 2, 2025
Love it!
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belkys
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 25, 2025
Mucha lectura, quisiera que fuera mas practico
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Mary
4.0
·Reviewed Oct 7, 2025
Very informative. I learned a lot!!
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Cin
3.0
·Reviewed Jun 16, 2026
I felt it was a bit light for a course like this and who would be using this information.
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Adrianne
2.0
·Reviewed Mar 22, 2025
The audio is varying more for this particular course than it did for the first one. I don't mean the different speakers I mean some of the computerized facilitators have major fluctuations in volume level.
Honestly all the courses should be put through an accessibilty review . Yellowish-orange text on white background is painful to read and impossible if you have some of the more common types of color blindness. The moving items in the background of the slides in this one and the 360 rotations I find distracting and/or nauseating; making it hard to focus on the lesson the video is teaching.
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Stacie
1.0
·Reviewed Apr 24, 2025
I have done this course and it keeps saying that I have not Finished it and I Have. my boss is cutting me off because he thinks I am not Using it.
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Teresia
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·Reviewed Feb 9, 2026
One of the question has a glitch. There is no right answer for the question after 75 attempts with answers.