Hello- I am new to this group. We currently job stream payroll jobs and break several times along the way to audit and make corrections. Does anyone else do this ? Our internal audit seems to feel we should just "press a button and go"- and doesn't seem to understand the need to reveiw and make corrections.

I would appreciate any input or backup that we can use to support our flow-

Good morning, RFB - we, too, process only part of our payroll cycle, allow validation and correction, and continue on after breaking. Although we may not be the same situation as your organization (we're monthly pay frequency, with an average of 3-5k transactions per month, paying current instead of in arrears), without this break, we would be processing 200 to 300 manual checks. We feel preventing as many errors as possible before our close is much more advantageous for all - processing and employees. With the potential for jobs going into recovery or error status, headaches are more easily prevented by validating along the way. We run the first half of our cycle, up to the PR140, validate, then the second half of the cycle through the close is run. Good luck!!

Since auditors are not Payroll specialist, explain to them that you will not tell them how to do their business and they should not tell you how to do yours.

Even better, tell them to press a button and be done with their audit. No need to review anything. Just produce the final audit review without ever pausing to analyze and make sure no mistakes have been made.

Or even better still, put the internal auditors in a separat processlevel and process their checks with no review, no gross-to-net comparisons to make sure numbers are reasonable before printing checks or sending ach.

Oh that's a really good approach. Never compare to make sure the numbers are reasonable. Just pay people whatever spits out and hope it's right. On one hand maybe people get paid way to little and freak out. On the other, maybe you pay WAY to much and your bank doesn't clear it. Treasury/Cash Management fires you (not the auditors) because you didn't prevent it and you're supposed to be responsible for making sure PR is accurate.

Give me a physical break and tell you auditors get real. I administered Lawson for a Payroll Services company processing payroll for thousands of companies, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc... all in the same environment. You must perform some level of review prior to running PR140 in update.

We've all dealt with amibitious unrealistic auditors at some point and time, but this is unbelievable. Your auditor's have obviously never been directly responsible for making sure the CEO is paid correctly.

G`luck with this one.

Thank you for your input- we are meeting this week!