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Christine Porras, CPP
Payroll Supervisor
CPAs & Advisors
Christine Porras is the Payroll Supervisor within the Consulting Service Line in the Saginaw office and leads the firm’s Payroll Services Group. She joined Yeo & Yeo in 1998.
Expertise
- Preparation of all aspects of payroll
- Knowledge of garnishments and friend of court orders
- Direct deposit and PayCards
- Payroll tax returns – 941, 940, state unemployment
- Multi-state tax services
- Year-end W-2 and W-3 processing
- 1099 processing
- Affordable Care Act Form 1094 and Form 1095 processing
Professional Certifications and Education
- Certified Payroll Professional since 2013
- Fundamental Payroll Certification since 2002
- Associates degree, Delta College
Professional Membership
- American Payroll Association (APA) National Member
- American Payroll Association (APA) Michigan Statewide Committee Member
- Co-founder, past President and member of the Great Lakes Bay Chapter of the APA, 2013-2020
Publications/Seminars
- Presented “Form 941 and Form 941X” at APA meeting, 2021
- Presented “Payroll Forms: A-Z” at APA statewide Conference, 2019
- Presented “Escheatment Laws” at APA meeting, 2017
- Presented “Preparing for Year End” at APA meeting, 2016
- Presented “Payrolll Forms A-Z” at APA meeting, 2016
- Presented “State Authority on Paying Employees” at APA meeting, 2015
- Facilitator for Year-end Roundtable Discussion at APA meeting, 2014
- Presented payroll training for the Michigan Institute for Educational Management, 2013
- Involuntary Deductions from Pay written for the firm’s Nonprofit Perspectives newsletter, Fall 2005
- 2017 Michigan Minimum Wage Increase Reminder
- 2017 Payroll Changes
- Social Security Administration Sending ‘No Match’ Notices
- 2018 Payroll Changes
- I-9 Compliance Crackdown – How to Be Prepared for an I-9 Audit
- IRS Releases Draft of 2019 Form W-4
- Independent Contractor vs. Employee: Worker Classification Matters
- 2019 Payroll Changes
- 2019 Michigan Minimum Wage Increase Reminder
- Michigan Minimum Wage and FLSA Updates for 2020
- How to Help Your Employees Claim Unemployment Due to COVID-19
- The President’s Action to Defer Payroll Taxes: What Does it Mean for Your Business?
Articles
Community Involvement
- Treasurer of the Saginaw County Veteran’s Memorial Plaza
- American Payroll Association – Great Lakes Bay Chapter, co-founder, past President and member
- JA Festival of Trees, tree designer
- Hemlock Business Association, past President and past Vice President
Awards
- Recipient of Yeo & Yeo’s prestigious Spirit of Yeo award, 2015