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Payroll Accounting: Salaries, Deductions, and Monthly Close

Run a clean payroll cycle — gross to net, statutory deductions, journals, and the reports finance and HR both need.

4.7(421 students)1,860 students

Created by Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obaidi

Last updated 2026-07English / Arabic

Placeholder curriculum for demonstration — topics and structure only.

Payroll Accounting: Salaries, Deductions, and Monthly Close
35,000 IQD110,000 IQD
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Placeholder curriculum for demonstration — topics and structure only.

This course includes

  • 8.5 total hours
  • 9 lectures
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and desktop
  • Certificate of completion
  • 30-day money-back placeholder
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What you'll learn

  • Build a payroll register from attendance to net pay
  • Calculate tax, social security, and other deductions
  • Post payroll journals and the payment run
  • Reconcile payroll control accounts at month-end

Learning roadmap

  1. Week 1

    The payroll cycle

    Inputs, cut-off, and who owns which step.

  2. Week 2

    Gross to net

    Earnings, deductions, and the control account.

  3. Week 3

    Posting

    Journals, bank, and employee advances.

  4. Week 4

    Close

    Reconcile, reports, and the next-month file.

Course content

3 sections · 9 lectures · 8.5 total hours

  • What belongs in payroll versus expensesPreview08:15
  • Employee master data that accounting needs11:40
  • The monthly calendar and cut-off09:25

Requirements

  • Basic bookkeeping vocabulary
  • A spreadsheet for the practice register

Description

Placeholder payroll lab. You process a sample month for a mixed team: salaried staff, overtime, and one leaver. The goal is a register that ties to the general ledger.

Who this course is for

  • Accountants taking over payroll for the first time
  • HR coordinators who hand numbers to finance
  • SME owners paying a small team

Instructor

Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obaidi

Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obaidi

Founder of Finance Station · Co-Founder & Managing Director, CopyBooks

Entrepreneur, financial consultant, and trainer with more than 12 years across Iraqi, regional, and international companies. Founder of Finance Station and Co-Founder and Managing Director of CopyBooks, an ERP platform for accounting, finance, sales, and inventory. He has trained more than 2,400 businesses and entrepreneurs, including programs with Riyada, Orange Corners, Makers of Baghdad, KAPITA, The Station, and GIZ.