Explain the internal control procedures that Research Sdn Bhd should adopt over the updating of its wages master file with regard to interviewer starters and leavers.
Explain the internal control procedures that Research Sdn Bhd should adopt over the updating of its wages master file with regard to interviewer starters and leavers.
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Explain the internal control procedures that Research Sdn Bhd should adopt over the updating of its wages master file with regard to interviewer starters and leavers.
![Research Sdn Bhd is a marketing research firm.
The company employs an interview manager to control 40 interviewers who conduct interviews with
hypermarket customers. The interviewers are paid monthly in arrears for hours worked, with hourly
rates and productivity bonus payments being dependent on surveys undertaken. They submit their
monthly time sheets to the company's head office for processing and the company operates a separate
monthly payroll specifically for interviewers' wages.
The company's wages software program produces on request:
A master file update report - detailing the update report number, the amendments made since
the last report, and the number of existing employees on file.
●
A current period payment details report showing gross payment, deductions, and net
payment amounts - by employee and in total.
Wage slips the computerised production of which is requested only after other control
procedures employed have ensured that information provided on the current period payment
details report (above) agrees with a hash total representing gross wages input.
The interviews manager is based at the company's head office, together with the accounting and
administration departments. He is responsible for the recruitment of interviewers, deployment to
assignments, overseeing of interview work and for the authorisation of pay rates and bonus payments.
The company has a good control environment including appropriate segregation of duties throughout
the specific areas of the business. Head office employees include a company accountant, a wages
supervisor and three wages clerks.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F7f6fba5e-27a9-47bf-94fb-e5e4369c3c44%2Fbdf2e3a7-8295-49b3-bd93-37217f92bd7a%2Fae7mty_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Research Sdn Bhd is a marketing research firm.
The company employs an interview manager to control 40 interviewers who conduct interviews with
hypermarket customers. The interviewers are paid monthly in arrears for hours worked, with hourly
rates and productivity bonus payments being dependent on surveys undertaken. They submit their
monthly time sheets to the company's head office for processing and the company operates a separate
monthly payroll specifically for interviewers' wages.
The company's wages software program produces on request:
A master file update report - detailing the update report number, the amendments made since
the last report, and the number of existing employees on file.
●
A current period payment details report showing gross payment, deductions, and net
payment amounts - by employee and in total.
Wage slips the computerised production of which is requested only after other control
procedures employed have ensured that information provided on the current period payment
details report (above) agrees with a hash total representing gross wages input.
The interviews manager is based at the company's head office, together with the accounting and
administration departments. He is responsible for the recruitment of interviewers, deployment to
assignments, overseeing of interview work and for the authorisation of pay rates and bonus payments.
The company has a good control environment including appropriate segregation of duties throughout
the specific areas of the business. Head office employees include a company accountant, a wages
supervisor and three wages clerks.
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