Please join the Board for breakfast on November 20, 2003.  This month’s topic is Year End 2003.  This includes such items as Year End Preparation, Legislative updates, Taxation of Fringe Benefits, Annual Changes, review the W-2 form and W-2 tie out procedures.

Speaker Karen Klein, CPP is currently the Payroll Tax Consultant for the U of M.  Among other duties, she tracks federal and state legislative developments impacting payroll operations, oversees Federal and State tax reporting compliance, assumes responsibility for University wide communications regarding matters of federal and state tax payroll policies and procedural changes, Foreign National tax issues and employment authorizations, and W-2/1042S year-end reporting. 

Speaker Terry Meggitt, CPP is the Payroll Coordinator for HealthPartners, employing over 9,000 employees, most in the Twin Cities metro area.  Terry has work for HealthPartners for 12 years.  Terry is a member of the Northstar Chapter of the American Payroll Association; including the APA Northstar Chapter Male Member of the Year for 2002.  He received his CPP Certification in the fall of 1995 and has been serving the Northstar Chapter memberships since 1996 coordinating and leading CPP/FPC study groups resulting in hundreds obtaining their CPP certification and now the FPC certification.   Terry was recently honored at 2003 APA Congress with the Donald W Sharper Education Grant. 

Speaker Dominique Palks, CPP is currently a Project Manager and Operations Analyst focusing on payroll reporting for Medtronic, Inc.  She has been with Medtronic for 8 years and has held various payroll related positions within the Human Resource Operations Center over the past 4-½ years.  Dominique received a BA in Accounting from St Cloud State University in the spring of 2001 and obtained her CPP certification in the spring of 2002.  She began teaching CPP study classes through Century College in January of 2003. 

Speaker Barb Muellerleile, CPP has over 16 years of payroll, payroll tax and benefits experience. She has an accounting background from Minnesota State University-Mankato.  She is a member of our North Star chapter board serving as the Program Chair.  Barb currently is the Director of the Payroll team at Regis Corporation to service over 45,000 employees in the US, Canada and the UK at over 9,000 locations.  She has worked with payrolls of multiple Federal ID numbers, extensively with year-end tax reporting, system set up and implementation, acquisitions and much more.   She has held previous payroll and benefits management positions for Land O Lakes Inc. and Taylor Corporation.

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