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Re: How difficult is a payroll system?

From	Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: How difficult is a payroll system?
Date	2016-09-01 08:15 +0000
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:23:03 -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> 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?

And constant changes from the government.



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How difficult is a payroll system? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-09-01 12:04 +1000
  Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-09-01 02:27 +0000
    Re: How difficult is a payroll system? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-01 02:47 +0000
    Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-09-01 14:10 +1000
      Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-09-01 10:12 +0000
        Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-01 21:48 +0200
    Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-09-01 14:14 +1000
      Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-09-01 10:22 +0000
  Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 22:23 -0500
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      Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-01 21:09 -0500
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        Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-01 21:16 -0500
        Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 22:43 +0200
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          Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-09-03 08:17 +0100
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              New systems for old (was Re: How difficult is a payroll system?) Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-03 22:12 -0500
                Re: New systems for old (was Re: How difficult is a payroll system?) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-05 20:00 -0400
                Re: New systems for old (was Re: How difficult is a payroll system?) Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 19:36 -0500
                Re: New systems for old (was Re: How difficult is a payroll system?) Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-05 19:42 -0500
            Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 22:13 +0200
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          Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 21:41 +0200
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