Exam 14: The Human Resources Process HR Management and Payroll Processes

Which of the following is not part of the information provided by HR management to support management decisions?

The key functions of ensuring that the information needs of HR managers and staff workers are satisfied and serving as the liaison between the IT department and the HR department is the job position of the manager of:

The key functions of planning and forecasting HR needs, analyzing jobs to determine required skills, assisting in recruiting, and helping new hires adjust to their work environment is the job position of the manager of:

With an enterprise system, updates of employee/payroll master data is performed by:

The payroll supervisor usually reports directly to:

Moving from bi-weekly to monthly payroll can reduce costs by 30 to 50 percent.

The ______________________________ process is an interacting structure of people, equipment, activities, and controls that supports the repetitive work routines and decision needs of the HR department

In an HR management process, needs requests, supervisor review, employee termination, and employee requests are approved by:

A job time record is used to calculate the gross amount of each employee's pay.

Which of the following recognized the importance of personnel in achieving organizational objectives, but viewed personnel as something that could be controlled?

A payroll clearing account is a separate bank account used solely for payroll purposes. Funds are transferred into the account to cover payroll checks to be issued.

Assume you are working with a payroll application that produces weekly paychecks, including paystubs. Listed below are 20 data elements that appear on the paycheck/paystub. Required: For each numbered item, indicate the immediate (versus ultimate) source of the item. For instance, the immediate source of the number of exemptions for an employee would be the employee master file as opposed to the ultimate source which is the W-4 form filed by the employee. Some items may have more than one source, as in the case of item 1. You have the following choices: = Employee master file Time clock cards (these are in machine-readable form and show for each employee for each day the time punched in the morning out at lunch, in after lunch, and out in the evening) = "Table" file of hourly wage rates (i.e., wage rate "class" and hourly rate for eacl: = "Table" file of state and federal income tax withholding amounts plus FICA tax = rate and annual "cutoff" amount for FICA wages. = Computer generated (such as a date or time of day supplied by the system) = Computer calculated Arrange your answer as follows: 1 T, E 2 ? etc.

The following is a list of 10 control plans. Required: Listed below are ten system failures that indicate weaknesses in control. On the answer line to the left of each description, insert the capital letter (from the list above) of the best control plan to address the system deficiency described. A letter should be used only once.

A(n) ______________________________ system is a computer based system that captures, stores, and reports time.

Which of the following shows start and stop times on specific job with the purpose of allowing the distribution of payroll costs to work in process?

For good internal control, there should be a segregation of duties between personnel data creation/modification, payroll preparation, and disbursement of the checks.

The GL supervisor usually reports to the treasurer.

The approved payroll disbursement voucher is used to:

In a payroll system logical DFD, all of the following processes likely would provide updates to the general ledger except for:

The ______________________________ data maintains data concerning an organization's short-term and long-term staffing requirements.