7. Processing in payroll systems

When a payroll system is run:

• Every employee record will be read by the system
• Every employee will be paid
• Every employee record will be updated

Payroll usually uses a system called batch processing. This is where all the data is stored up and then processed together in a batch, maybe each night or at the end of the week / month.

An exception report is produced if an error occurs during the processing.

A payroll assistant checks the exception report and makes manual adjustments to the payroll before the final printing of salary slips and payment to the bank.

This shows at the end of the day it still needs the human touch to deal with people!

Once the payroll is complete, employees are given their payslips and the money is transferred to their bank acount.