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 aim is to automate the verification of data, calculate entitlements and update data electronically and import the data directly into the human resources management and payroll system.

Payroll, payroll system and payroll processing system

The collection of data necessary to estimate savings has been difficult as some organizations did not know the cost of their payroll systems.

Moreover, as the personnel (PIOUS) and payroll systems are independent, reconciliation between the different sources of data is essential prior to migrating to MSRP.

UNHCR payroll

Adopting a single set of data element standards could help in fully integrating HR and payroll processes across the United Nations system and would facilitate and simplify data interchange and the development of system wide applications.

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.

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

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

The Inspectors believe that HLCM, as part of its mandate, and supported by the ICT Task Force, should develop common data element standards to be used by both payroll and HR systems system wide.

A common payroll for United Nations system organizations

Payroll systems used by various UN system organizations

The analysis of data provided by organizations leads us to estimate that the average payroll cost per employee per year currently borne by the United Nations system organizations is in the range of US 200 250.

Payroll is a list of employees receiving regular pay.

The Payroll Tax Bill was passed in December 2004.

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.

Back office and support functions, such as payroll processing, helpdesks, staff records data entry, etc., are performed by the organization's own staff but in areas where operating costs are significantly lower than the average for the organization.

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).

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.

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.

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.

3,000 employees. He kept every one of them on the payroll.

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.

Most school districts spend two thirds of that on payroll and overhead.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 Inspectors would like to thank the officials from the different United Nations organizations who took the time to provide data through interviews and questionnaires, as well as the different United States federal agencies that shared their experience in consolidating payroll operations within the United States Government.

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.

They're going to say, Hey, maybe it was those guys in payroll that forged those checks.

In the recent past, there were some 26 different federal agencies running their own payroll systems.

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