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Payroll System PDF
CONCEPTUAL
PAYROLL
SYSTEM
THE CONCEPTUAL
PAYROLL SYSTEM
The nature of payroll processing, however, creates the
need for specialized procedures, for the following
reasons:
1) A firm can design general purchasing and
disbursement procedures that apply to all vendors
and inventory items. Payroll procedures, however,
differ greatly among classes of employees.
2) General expenditure activities constitute a relatively
steady stream of purchasing and disbursing
transactions. Business organizations thus design
purchasing systems to deal with their normal level
of activity. Payroll activities, on the other hand, are
discrete events in which disbursements to
employees occur weekly, biweekly, or monthly
THE CONCEPTUAL
PAYROLL SYSTEM
The nature of payroll processing, however, creates
the need for specialized procedures, for the following
reasons:
3) Writing checks to employees requires special
controls. Combining payroll and trade
transactions can encourage payroll fraud.
THE CONCEPTUAL PAYROLL
SYSTEM
I. PERSONNEL
DEPARTMENT
V. DISTRIBUTE PAYCHECK
➢ The general ledger function receives the labor distribution summary from cost accounting, the
disbursement voucher from AP, and the journal voucher from cash disbursements. With this
information, the general ledger clerk makes the following accounting entries: