Payroll, payroll system and payroll processing system

UNHCR payroll

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.

At the same time, employers will pay 6 or 2 per cent payroll tax depending on the size of the business.

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The total payroll for the Ministry of Interior exceeds 300,000, but many of these are not on duty at any given time.

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

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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.

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

The Board notes that, by April 2005, UNOPS had not performed payroll reconciliations to verify the validity, accuracy and completeness of the payroll transactions in its general ledger.

In Cameroon, for example, a new personnel and payroll data system allows better control of procedures, including the elimination of listing non existent employees on the payroll ( ghost workers ).

The payroll function is not a mission critical activity for the United Nations system, although the sensitivity of timely and accurate payroll results makes it a high visibility function.

Payroll is a list of employees receiving regular pay.

The Payroll Tax Bill was passed in December 2004.

The time frame for implementation of a common payroll system is heavily influenced by the fact that each organization is in a different phase of information systems development.

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.

Although no formal definition could be found for payroll system the association of both terms (payroll and system) suggests a method or procedure by which the employees of an organization are paid.

Phase 1 Consolidation of current payroll systems into several groups of leading organizations or common service entities, acting as payroll service providers (internal to the United Nations system).

Although this study is focused on payroll processing systems, payroll should not be seen as an isolated software application, as it heavily interfaces with human resources management systems (HRMS) and financial information systems.

Comment by the Administration. Subsequent to the implementation of the IMIS payroll and global payroll to general ledger interface in July 2004, the Atlas general ledger module was rolled out in September 2004.

The number of payroll systems and providers has now officially been reduced to four.

(e) Use of Web based communications to provide payroll and payment information to retirees

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.

The United Nations system operates today about 17 different payroll processing systems.

Business cases are being developed for, inter alia, payroll by the ICC.

Payroll tax relief and spending on programs like food stamps and unemployment compensation are much more effective.

Investment in payroll systems could provide significant returns in cost avoidance and in better system management.

The burden of payroll taxes, together with overweening labor market regulation, stifles entrepreneurship.

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

This should significantly improve the responsible staff members' understanding of payroll related transactions.

There were no common guidelines and most of the payroll systems were in house developments and not interconnected.

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

Some agencies have not yet finished the migration of payroll operations and still run their own system.

UNICEF thanks the inspectors for a thorough and detailed report on common payroll for United Nations organizations.

Oil companies continue having scientists on their payroll who are willing to sow doubts.

The census enabled the Transitional Government to remove ghost workers from the government payroll.

Progress has however been made towards realizing better control of the public administration payroll.

In the civil service, women represent about 23 per cent of the total payroll.

E. A common payroll for the United Nations system organizations (JIU REP 2005 4)

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

The system migration from Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) was smooth, and payroll is now being successfully processed.

Comment by the Administration. Treasury maintains expenditure (primary payroll) forecasts and matched investments when market conditions and cash balances permit.