Hi Shirley - to see the eligibility report, change your staging date on the screen to some time in the past and hit Find and it will give you a series of Older periods reports starting with the month of the staging date, with the names of employees who are eligible or not.
The developers are working on more AE functionality to come in for the new year when the majority of staging dates happen.
Sage payroll is designed to cover most payrolls, Clear Books is not, and so the AE functions for Sage will always be far more extensive that those needed by the majority of CB users and so matching all Sage features would be a waste of time.
CB really do need feedback though from users over AE and so make a post in the Ideas section for the basic features you will need, and others can vote on them.
All the best