Within the Secretariat, with respect to services provided to staff members, the accounting and payroll services have focused on client orientation.

The remainder covers the cost of the provision of audit, payroll, investment, and treasury and accounting services by UNOG.

The Service is also responsible for accounting, payroll, payment and disbursement of funds and treasury functions in Nairobi.

Payroll services were transferred from UNOG to UNHCR as of 31 December 2003.

Payroll, payroll system and payroll processing system

Half of world trade in commercial services consists of business services, which includes professional services such as accounting, legal, health and advertising services.

(f) Accounting, payroll, payment and disbursement of funds and treasury functions for the United Nations Office at Vienna and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UNHCR payroll

Some organizations have expressed their concerns about confidentiality issues regarding the provision of payroll processing services by another United Nations system organization.

The outsourcing of payroll processing could be either internal within the United Nations system where some organizations would act as service providers for others, or external in which some private or public service providers would deliver payroll processing services.

After tourism, the next most important economic sector is financial services, accounting for some 15 of GDP.

It is proposed to create leader organizations for each of the different major payroll systems already available within the United Nations, such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and IMIS Phase 2 Consolidation into a common payroll system, at the end of which only one or two organizations would provide payroll services for the whole United Nations system.

It is to be noted that the terms payroll system and payroll processing system are often used indistinctly to refer to a computer system which processes payroll.

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UNICEF agrees that reducing the number of payroll systems is the first step towards a common payroll system.

These leader organizations and or common service entities, such as the International Computing Centre (ICC), could offer payroll services to those organizations interested in their specific solutions.

Moreover, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) continues to provide the secretariat with administrative support services relating to treasury and payroll on a cost reimbursement basis.

And the World Bank has acknowledged this and they've started a project called WAVES Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services.

Objective 4. Revision and restructuring of accounting function within the Financial Services Section and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund.

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The Board notes that the submitted draft service level agreement regarding central services for the payroll function will need to be revised as it did not specify the specific control processes that UNDP is to undertake to provide UNOPS with assurance that the payroll was valid, accurate and complete.

Developing competitive professional services in developing countries is particularly important given their contribution to furthering development and good corporate governance (e.g. accounting).

UNDP has issued draft service level agreements for payroll and treasury services, which UNOPS is reviewing to ensure that functions and responsibilities, especially with regard to controls, are properly defined.

The Inspectors believe that the first step towards a common payroll system would be the reduction in the number of current payroll systems.

A common payroll for United Nations system organizations

Payroll systems used by various UN system organizations

Accounting convention

Environmental accounting

The leader agencies should assist the agencies with legacy systems by providing them with services such as hosting, by assisting with the development of solutions, or by fully operating payroll for them.

In 1973, the Accounting Principles Board was replaced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) under the supervision of the Financial Accounting Foundation with the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council serving to advise and provide input on the accounting standards.

Payroll is a list of employees receiving regular pay.

The Payroll Tax Bill was passed in December 2004.

The planned new environment will consolidate the master record keeping (accounting, reconciliation and performance reporting) and custodial services into a single master record keeper global custodian).

This should not be a problem to outsource payroll services is a common practice in the private sector, more sensitive to confidentiality issues than the United Nations system where salary scales are public.

In addition, the payroll operated by the Fund is the largest in the United Nations system and the Financial Services Section in charge of that activity reports directly to the Chief of Operations.

Organizations planning to purchase a new payroll system have now a choice, either to buy a new one or to in source payroll delivery using one of the United Nations organizations as a payroll service provider in both cases there is an upfront investment.

The report examines payroll service delivery in different organizations in order to ascertain major obstacles and to develop recommendations for future improvement of payroll systems and processes.

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E. Accounting standards

(d) Fund accounting.

Accrual basis accounting

In the Financial Services Section, reinforcing staffing is a matter of priority given the critical importance of the financial accounting function and of the related financial activities.

Online sales are less common in retail trade (B2C) or in services' industries, with sales accounting for only 1.7 and 1 per cent of total sales, respectively.