Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) Designation
Introduction
Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) Designation is a program taught at Douglas College, Canada. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.
Douglas College’s Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) Designation is the next step for Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) designation holders who want to enter a management position. The PLP designation builds on compliance knowledge and develops payroll management skills to prepare seasoned professionals to manage a payroll department.
The designation requires two core payroll courses and three transfer credit courses. Core courses are Introduction to Payroll Management and Applied Payroll Management, with the first delivered in-person at Douglas College’s New Westminster Campus and the second offered virtually. Students apply management processes in a payroll department context and complete approved transfer credit courses in Organizational Behaviour Management, Managerial Accounting, and Compensation & Benefits Management.
Modules
- Introduction to Payroll Management
- Applied Payroll Management
- Organizational Behaviour Management
- Managerial Accounting
- Compensation & Benefits Management
Admission Requirements
The minimum requirements for admission in Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) Designation at Douglas College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:
- program specific academic requirment set by Douglas College.
- English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Douglas College as pre-requiste for admission in Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) Designation.
Note: Please check the university website in the link below.
Students must submit the Payroll Experience Prerequisite Application and receive approval from the Institute prior to enrolling in the Introduction to Payroll Management course. Students must also be PCP designation holders.
- Introduction to Payroll Management - Prerequisites: Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) designation and two years of weighted payroll experience)
- Applied Payroll Management - Prerequisite: Introduction to Payroll Management
- Organizational Behaviour Management - must be completed at a post-secondary institution
- Managerial Accounting - must be completed at a post-secondary institution
- Compensation & Benefits Management - must be completed at a post-secondary institution
Courses Units
Scholarships
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