Please join the Board for breakfast on April 15, 2004.  This month’s topic is Payroll Resources Using the Internet.  This session includes numerous internet websites that are beneficial to the payroll professional.

Speaker Sharlene Smith, CPP is currently the Payroll Manager for GMAC/RFC.  She has held various other payroll positions for a total of over 25 years of payroll experience.  She has been a frequent speaker with the Northstar APA, and with other groups of which she has been a member.  Ms. Smith is a graduate of the University of Central Florida where she earned a BS degree in Elementary Education.  She obtained her CPP certification in 1995.

Speaker Robin Murphy, CPP is the Corporate Payroll Manager for Deluxe Corporation, headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Robin has 26 years with Deluxe and has experience in implementing many new systems (i.e. accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, time and attendance and payroll).  Robin was named 2002 Member of the Year by the Northstar Chapter Board.

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.  Barb currently is the Director of the Payroll team at Regis Corporation to service over 55,000 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.  

Speaker Karen Klein, CPP is currently the Payroll Tax Compliance 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.