This document contains a payroll internal control questionnaire with 14 questions. It asks questions about controls over timekeeping, payroll processing, reconciliation, segregation of duties, and compliance with labor laws. The questionnaire is to be completed with yes/no answers and comments to evaluate the strength of the company's payroll internal controls.
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This document contains a payroll internal control questionnaire with 14 questions. It asks questions about controls over timekeeping, payroll processing, reconciliation, segregation of duties, and compliance with labor laws. The questionnaire is to be completed with yes/no answers and comments to evaluate the strength of the company's payroll internal controls.
This document contains a payroll internal control questionnaire with 14 questions. It asks questions about controls over timekeeping, payroll processing, reconciliation, segregation of duties, and compliance with labor laws. The questionnaire is to be completed with yes/no answers and comments to evaluate the strength of the company's payroll internal controls.
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Payroll – Internal control questionnaire
Yes/No Comments
1 Is time worked by non salaried staff adequately recorded and
authorised?
2 Is leave and absence through sickness properly controlled?
3 Is the original pay rate authorised in writing and subsequent
amendments properly approved?
4 Are changes to allowances and deductions properly approved?
5 Is there a periodic check by independent staff, comparing the
payroll and personnel records?
6 Is access to the payroll and personnel records, whether manual
or computerised, adequately controlled?
7 Are the number of employees, amounts paid, and allowances and
deductions, reconciled from one period to the next?
8 Is the calculation of a sample of employees net pay periodically
checked?
9 Is there a satisfactory system of budgetary control?
10 Do procedures ensure staff leaving the company are cancelled
from the payroll?
11 Do terms and conditions comply with local labour laws?
12 Are proper provisions made for leave pay, benefits etc and these provisions periodically reconciled?
13 Are there adequate controls over staff advances?
14 Does the segregation of duties ensure:
· Those responsible for approving time worked are independent
of those responsible for payroll preparation, determining cheque payments and the preparation and distribution of pay?
· Those responsible for maintaining personnel records are
independent of those responsible for preparing the payroll?
· Those responsible for payroll preparation are independent
of those responsible for the preparation and distribution of pay, particularly where casual labour is employed or where there is no separate and independent personnel department?
· Those responsible for maintaining personnel records or
originating entries on the personnel records are independent of those responsible for preparing pay packets or distributing pay?
· Those responsible for payroll preparation should be inde-
pendent of those authorising cheque payments, authorise bank transfers, etc.?
· Those responsible for distributing pay should be independent