• Accounting
• 2021-10-19
• Mr. Wasim Firoz

Challenges That is Faced By The Payroll Accounting Team

Payroll is one of the long-term and boring processes which is required for any kind of business. Due to long-term and boring processes, many business owners don’t prefer to spend their time on the payroll process. The payroll process is one of the detailed work that helps the company in comparing the numbers easily and effectively but it’s a time-consuming process. Generally, companies assign this work to HR (Human Resource) or the accounting department to turn down the company cost. If the HR or accounting department has no adequate skills and knowledge about it then they will deliver ineffective results in payroll.

What Is Payroll Accounting?

As per the accounting books, the Payroll Accounting process is an important process to calculate, employees’ compensation analysis, management, and recording.  Payroll accounting is managing and tracking employee compensation like money. In this, we use financial journals to records transactions and cash flow. The payroll entries fall under the ledger to sorts all information of the finance. We add the following things in employees’ compensation.

1. Gross wages, salaries, commissions, and bonuses.
2. Employer fringe expenses.
3. Withholding of salary, insurance premiums, and savings plans.
4. employee taxes and Withholding employer. 

Common Challenges that are faced by the payroll Accounting Team

1. Delay in Making Payments - Payroll is a good time-consuming process which is required the best level of accuracy and very less error for the calculation. Many companies delay the payment of the employees because either they have a manual payroll system or have no specialized person to manage payroll accounting. Delay in employee payment demotivates them and affects morale also.
   
   
2. Increase Burden - As we mentioned above that most companies don’t have a specialized department or team for payroll. Then it’s obvious that it is handled by the finance department who is already busy with their primary obligations. The team of finance department can’t able to perform any activity properly and feel pressure and burden of the work. The ultimate result, the payroll activity is not performed perfectly.
   
   
3. Old Or Traditional System - Traditional payroll accounting systems focus on the manual payroll system. In this, we have to deal with lots of papers that make us feel bore.  We also have to meet with lots of errors and also difficult to share any kind of report and information within an organization. It’s also complicated to maintain a backup.
   
   
4. Difficult to Compliance With Laws & Rules - It’s very critical for businesses to comply with government rules and regulations.  It is important for the company to have awareness about the tax law, government rules & regulation so that payroll team or performance calculate the wages and salaries and perform the other related activities on that basis. If the company does irresponsibility in payroll then it may get a large amount of plenty or fine.
   
   
5. Secret And Privacy Problems - The data breach is also another critical issue that is faced by the company. The process of payroll keeps the lost information about company workers and employees like personal details, bank accounts details, etc. If any kind of data is stolen, then the company may get extremely harm like payroll financial malpractices, frauds, etc. An organization should apply the strict privacy policy to avoid this.
   
   

How Risians Accounting Can help you?

Risians accounting is a group certified team of chartered accountants who has decades of working experience in accounting, auditing, taxation, etc. 

In Dubai commonly, businesses prefer to hire the best trained and experience person to get the payroll process managed. At risians accounting, we also offer effective customized payroll services. Our payroll expert and dedicated team perform the payroll activity in a perfect manner and fulfill the client requirement.

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