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From: Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How difficult is a payroll system?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:23:03 -0500
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On 8/31/2016 21:04, Sylvia Else wrote:
> <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-01/canada-ibm-payroll-debacle-echoes-queensland-health/7802944>
>
>
> I find these stuff-ups hard to fathom. Just how complicated is a payroll
> system? Yes, it deals with lots of transactions, but each one is surely
> straight-forward.

They ARE straight-forward.

Unless you have to provide for over-time rules, union rules, state laws 
and rules. state tax laws and rules, FSMCA rules and laws, FRA rules and 
laws, OSHA rules and laws, differing plant rules, customs, practices, 
and traditions and the rest of a forbidding pile of minutia.  Did I 
mention GAAP?


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