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PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT
Personnel department prepares and submits personnel action forms to the prepare payroll
function
Personnel action form – these documents identify employees authorized to receive a paycheck
and are used to reflect changes in hourly pay rates, payroll deductions, and job classification
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT
Production employees prepare 2 types of time records: Job tickets and Time cards
Job ticket – capture the time that individual workers spend on each production job
- Cost accounting uses these documents to allocate direct labor charges to work-in-process
(WIP) accounts
Time cards – capture the time the employee is at work.
- Formal record of daily attendance
- Sent to payroll function for calculating the amount of the employee’s paycheck
Employees place their time cards in a special clock that records the time. They typically clock out
for lunch and end of shift
At the end of the week, supervisor reviews, signs and sends the time cards to the payroll dept.
PREPARE PAYROLL
Payroll Department receives pay rate and withholding data from the personnel department
and hours-worked data from the production department
A clerk in the payroll department performs the ff. tasks:
1. Prepares the payroll register showing pay, deductions, overtime pay, and net pay
2. Enters this information into the employee payroll records
3. Prepares employee paychecks
4. Sends the paychecks to the distribute paycheck function
5. Files the:
Time cards
Personnel action form
Copy of the payroll register
DISTRIBUTE PAYCHECK
A form of payroll fraud involves submitting time cards for non-existent employees
- The perpetrator collects the paycheck and cashes it
- To prevent this, they uses paymaster to distribute paychecks to employees
- Paymaster – this individual is independent of the payroll process – not involved in
payroll authorization or preparation tasks
- If a valid employee does not claim a paycheck, the paymaster returns the check to
payroll
Human resources clerk enter data into the employee records file in real time from
terminals.