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a.

) i and ii)

Key controls Test of controls


The new joiner forms are processed by the Trace the copy of the new employee forms
HR department while the payroll only sets back to their origin in order to confirm that
up payments. This shows segregation of it is the HR department that sends them.
duties between the two departments
hence there is independency between
them.
The payroll being unable to set up Within the payroll system, attempt to set
employees without the staff number is an up an employee without the staff number
effective control which will ensure that to find out if it rejects it or not.
payments are only made to employees that
actually exist and that there is no chance of
double payments.
The production supervisor determining the Compare the recordings of the production
amounts to be paid means that the supervisor and the respective information
payments are authorized before being held by the payroll department to match
processed and this also presents them.
independency as the payroll department
has nothing to do here.
The reconciliation with the government For a sample on reconciliations identify if
statements ensures that employees will not any discrepancies have been discovered
be declaring incorrect information and any and properly solved in due time.
such attempts will be discovered.
The production and non- production Obtain the bank statement and cash book
employees using different methods of and confirm that the payments made were
payment means that it is easier to narrow only to the employees of their respective
down any errors, omissions or fraud to the departments.
specific department.

b.)

Deficiencies Recommendation
The net pay calculations are not checked Have a staff member that specifically
which means any attempts of fraud or any checks the calculations and informs the
errors will not be discovered. payroll manager of any issues discovered.
The employee is the one that notifies if the Obtain statements from the relevant
loans are paid in full. This means that the organizations in order to know the
company might keep on paying by mistake. outstanding payments.
With the holiday request forms not being Forms must always be filled by employees
authorized, this means that there is no way and authorized by line managers by
to determine the period of leave of the comparing them to the duration of leave
employees. This can result in them taking and the amount of 28 days they have taken
holidays beyond their given time. already.
There are only two members of staff that Once the pay packets are produced and
work on the pay packets. This presents a checked they must be authorized by a
risk of collusion as they can easily work senior staff that compares the amount and
together to steal money by creating more overall quantity with the employee list.
pay packets than the number of
employees.
The costs, wages and salaries are not The payments must be analysed and where
analysed which means that errors are less large differences are found between the
likely to be discovered and this also creates budgets and actual amounts, they must be
opportunity for frauds. investigated.

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