Question

Carrie Nimrod is the payroll clerk of the Sun River Hotel. Her responsibilities include rechecking the hours worked by hourly employees, preparing payroll accounts, signing the checks, and preparing the bank Carrie Nimrod is the payroll clerk of the Sun River Hotel. Her responsibilities include rechecking the hours worked by hourly employees, preparing payroll accounts, signing the checks, and preparing the bank reconciliation for the payroll bank account. Any undelivered and payroll checks are returned to Carrie for safekeeping. Ryan Quick, the hotel's controller, suggests Carrie can carry out these duties very efficienlty rather than involve other members of the accounting staff who are less familiar with the payroll tasks.  

Required:

1. Critique the above assignment of tasks for Carrie and suggest how these duties should be segregated.

Answer 1

Req 1)

Due to the practical and physical difficulties, it would always appropriate for Carrie Nimrod to involve the other members of the accounting staff. This will no only relieve Carrie of whole payroll work but also acquaint the other accounting staff of payroll work procedures. Carrie Nimrod can assign the rechecking work of hours worked by hourly employees to one member. Carrie can himself undertake task like Preparing payroll accounts and signing the checks and collecting undelivered and payroll checks. The bank reconciliation work for the payroll bank account could be assigned to some other member. The assigned duties can be segregated from the other duties, so it is safe and can be rechecked by Carrie.