...intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge"[1]) is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[2][3][4] In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as ascientist. 2. This study examines differences in standards of research publications between the physical sciences and the social sciences. The results of the first two hypotheses tested indicate that the predominant form of publication in the physical sciences are articles, whereas books predominate in the social sciences. Furthermore, differences were found in the relevant dimension of publication between faculties in more prestigious departments and faculties in less prestigious departments. The policy implications of these findings to university administration are discussed. Physical Science is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the life sciences. However, the term "physical" creates an unintended, somewhat arbitrary distinction, since many branches of physical science also study biological phenomena. There is a difference between physical...
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...Applied Payroll Management (APM) Online Learning Course Outline Total Hours: 5 – 8 hours per week Prerequisites: Introduction to Payroll Management, Organizational Behaviour Management, Managerial Accounting, and Compensation & Benefits Management Course Description: This course is the final core payroll course in the Certified Payroll Manager (CPM) certification program. Applied Payroll Management provides professionals with the opportunity to apply relevant management processes in a payroll department context. Benchmarking, best practices development and human resources skills - such as monitoring, motivating, assessing and supervising personnel - are utilized to enable the payroll professional to achieve organizational and career goals. Upon completion of Applied Payroll Management, you should be able to: Define the legislative compliance role of a payroll professional, including how payroll can expand its role in an organization Analyze payroll's relationship with the finance, human resources and information technology departments in an organization Participate in continuous improvement strategies through benchmarking and the application of best practices Identify the processes required for evaluating, implementing and maintaining new payroll systems Participate in the development of payroll employees through the use of cascading objectives, job design, professional development, succession planning and performance measurement ...
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...Management Case Study Ken Drake XMGT/216 October 28, 2011 Dan Mitchell Axia College of the University of Phoenix Management Case Study Mr. Austen: I am sending you this short response to your request to reduce payroll by 15%. I have begun a study of the problem and wish to describe for you the actions I plan to take to reach this goal. As you may be aware, the company recently hired some new employee’s, women, and minorities, to remedy a lack of diversity in the workplace. This has presented problems in completing my task because of ethical issues and my own moral beliefs of making these new workers the answer to the problem. It is to this end that I am changing directions and moving away from seniority and job performance and looking for other ways to cut payroll. I called for a meeting of the employees in my department this morning and described the payroll problem to them, and asked for suggestions. After some silence, several people who have been with the company the longest offered to take a temporary cut in pay to help. Others offered to work three days less during the month, and all have agreed to the changes in schedule to cover the empty spots. I am working on an incentive program to boost production on the days that all of the employees are together and to give the employees that have opted for pay cuts to get some money coming in to cover the loss. After doing some calculations, I believe we can meet the 15% payroll reduction, plus 1%, with no losses...
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...company there is a need to have a system? Do you imagine an organization without any planning program? Since then, in every company a system is one of the ingredients of their success and capacity to give services. Payroll System is one of the fundamental needs of a company. Payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll plays a major role in a company for several reasons. From an accounting point of view, payroll is crucial because payroll and payroll taxes considerably affect the net income of most companies and they are subject to laws and regulations (e.g. in the US payroll is subject to federal and state regulations). From an ethics in business viewpoint payroll is a critical department as employees are responsive to payroll errors and irregularities: good employee morale requires payroll to be paid timely and accurately. The primary mission of the payroll department is to ensure that all employees are paid accurately and timely with the correct withholdings and deductions, and to ensure the withholdings and deductions are remitted in a timely manner. This includes salary payments, tax withholdings, and deductions from a paycheck. Companies typically generate their payrolls on regular intervals, for the benefit of regular income to their employees. The regularity of...
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...Chapter 6 – Payroll Schemes 1. A _______________ is an individual on the payroll who does not actually work for the organization. a. Falsified employee b. Phantom employee c. Ghost employee d. Shell employee 2. Which of the following is not a type of payroll scheme? a. Ghost employee scheme b. False deduction scheme c. Falsified hours and salary scheme d. Commission scheme 3. Marsha Wood added her one-year-old niece, Jackie, to the payroll at JNC Company and began issuing paychecks in Jackie’s name, even though Jackie did not work for the organization. Marsha’s niece is not considered a ghost employee because she is a real individual rather than a fictitious person. a. True b. False 4. Which of the following is not necessary for a ghost employee scheme to succeed? a. Timekeeping and wage rate information must be collected. b. The ghost must be added to the payroll. c. The perpetrator must have access to a bank account in the ghost employee’s name. d. A paycheck must be issued to the ghost. 5. To safeguard against ghost employee schemes, the person in charge of entering new employees in the payroll system should also distribute the paychecks so that he or she can look for payments to unauthorized employees. a. True b. False 6. If a fraudster fails to remove a terminated employee from the payroll and collects the former employee’s fraudulent paychecks, he or she is committing a: a. Payroll larceny scheme b. Falsified hours and salary scheme c. Forged endorsement scheme d. Ghost...
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...business resources (such as cash, raw materials, and production capacity) and the status of commitments made by the business (such as customer orders, purchase orders, and employee payroll), no matter which department (manufacturing, purchasing, sales, accounting, and so on) has entered the data into the system. ERP facilitates information flow between all business functions inside the organization, and manages connections to outside stakeholders. This PAYROLL SYSTEM is a part of an ERP. This system involves calculations and registering of cash payment of the company to their employees (which involves Salaries, Incentives, Benefits and Taxation) as stated by the law itself. Even though PAYROLL is normally under Human Resource Department of a company, yet this system makes it much more independent from the core of the said department. A PAYROLL is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll is crucial because payroll and payroll taxes considerably affect the net income of most companies and they are subject to laws and regulations 1.1PROJECT OVERVIEW Payslip Generation Salary Computation Payroll Report Generation Payroll System Deductions and Taxation Calculation Financial Reports In and...
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...urgently. It because on that day, there are two cars must be unloaded. Sam agree and will find the replacement but he fails. Next areas is, training and development. This context are includes to identify training and development needs and source provision. It also consists to provide Corporate induction programs, facilitate IiP accreditation and administer corporate training provision. In this case study, Sam is instructed to devising a program to help his company. He decide to use the management by objectives (MBO) program although him realized there are will be resistance by some plant managers. But Sam confident that this MBO is good solutions to implementation at his workplace, Lakeview Plant for improve the work setting and skill level of employees. Besides that, there is also recruitment activities. Recruitment activities covering such as provide a comprehensive advice and administration service, from advertising to appointment, for all full-time and fractional appointments across the organization. It also to provide and selecting the best worker for the needed organization and make appointment offers and complete employment documentation.. Based on the case, Sam received call from plant manager to recruit new employee for position administrative assistant. There is also employee relations. In human resources this function are consists to give contribute to individual and collective consultations and negotiations, to...
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...In designing and building a payroll program for a large organization with offices spread across the country, which possesses quite a few changelings to overcome and must be done in a particular manner. Thus having the right application architecture is important where the design is concerned. Because the company has one large data center that each office connects to via a wide area network (WAN), hence the appropriate architecture for this solution would have to consist of a WAN diagram to be used in management of this project, along with system documentation, and information technology architecture documents to provide a visual representation of the network. A wide area networks (WANs) usually covers a large, physical area. And many WANs cover entire buildings, cities, states, or regions, thus the primary purpose of the WAN is to link together all the local area networks, of these other offices spread across the country. The Payroll program being used in this case study has been centered on having the proper application architecture that would be effective for the solution being deployed. It would take into consideration where each piece of equipment needs to be deployed and where its physical location should be sited and which is most effective for the organization. Thus an effective system would combine elements into an architecture, or design, that is flexible, cost-effective, technically sound, and able to support the information needs of the business. There would be a logical...
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...Payroll Management System Project Proposal To: Pierre Curran Marketing Incorporated From: RLKJJ Premium Software Providers * Kristine Dianne K. Maturingan * Rose Ann B. Lee * Jonathan B. Salvacion * Judy Lee B. Valderas * Johne Nicoe B. de Jesus Prepared on: PAYROLL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Project Proposal To:Pierre Curran Marketing Incorporated From: Kristine Dianne K. Maturingan, Rose Ann B. Lee, Jonathan B. Salvacion, Judy Lee B. Valderas, and Johne Nicoe B. De Jesus RLKJJ Premium Software Providers Prepared on: PROJECT PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION Today, computer technology is at a very fast phase. Many business sectors are becoming more and more competitive by trying to make them exposed to such by upgrading their own computer systems. The use of software has become a very important aspect for a company. It changed, though not totally, the manual ways of managing their company data. It made a huge impact, especially in a company’s accounting department. The use of software has made accurate computations on the monthly payroll. It offered an easy way of putting input in the database by having all the data needed like the employees’ names, working hours, and wages. It is easy to use, effective, and efficient in organizing and computing the company’s payroll. The proposed Payroll Management System aims to be of a great help to a company’s management. PROBLEM The factors that the researchers considered before...
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...CASE SUMMARY Dual Digital Media is a Canadian based technology business which originally started as a family computer company that has become an international provider of digital media in many different forms. The company operated in 3 Canadian provinces and has expanded its operations nationally and internationally through the acquisition of smaller firms of similar vision aimed at both the consumer and business markets. In conjunction with these acquisitions DDM has acquired a range of payroll processing methods, systems, pay cycles and reporting structures. Currently, 11 staff oversees the payroll delivery for 1,238 employees at 5 different site locations. DDM’s current business plan calls for all support operations to be centralized at the Head Office over the period of one year. The goal of this change is to sustain the expected growth of the company by reducing overhead costs for Payroll and Human Resources in each operational centre. CASE SUMMARY GUIDELINES: What are the issues in this case? Our objective is to determine the set up of a centralized payroll at the Head Office. To do this, the following existing payroll issues will have to be considered: 1. There are many payroll systems currently being used in the different operational centres (outsourced: ADP & Ceridian; in-house: Simply & ACCPAC; manually for management). Analysis of the situation: Using a mix of in-house systems and outsourcing partners in a large company operating in nine sites, can make...
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...CASE STUDIES in CS 17 Mr. Eldimario O. Antiquina, CPA, MBA Professor Ms. Crismarjoe Dara L. Vasay Student 1. Breezy Company EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The sales manager of Breezy Company, John Breezy moved to Alaska so Chuck Breezy, President of Breezy Company hired a young college graduate to fill the position. Trying to keep sales level up, Chuck established a reward incentive based on net sales. Bob Sellmore as the new sales manager was eager to set his career in motion and decided he would attempt to increase the sales levels. He recruited new customers while keeping the old clientele. For one year, Bob had proved himself to Chuck, who decided to introduce an advertising program to further increase sales which brought in orders from a number of new customers, many of whom Breezy had never done business with before. With the influx of orders from new customers, Chuck became excited that he instructed Jane Breezy, the finance manager to raise the initial credit limit for new customers that induce them to purchase more. As the finance manager, Jane performs credit checks. At first, Jane really sees to it that credits are approved on the basis of past behavior to those customers who she had been familiar. When there are new customers, she usually approved low credit at first but increases it after the customer exhibited reliability. But Chuck felt that this policy is restricting a further increase on sales that he decided to increase credit limits even to new customers...
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...storage capacity and processing capabilities. It also serves great advantage for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll processes. The role of Information Technology is constantly evolving and has changed significantly and now enables new competencies that make new strategies no matter the sector is. Businesses of all sizes make use of computer based systems because of its great benefits to improve efficiency of business transactions, not only does this kind of technology improve their daily routine and processes, but also boost their daily business transactions, communications and general operations. Business establishments or corporations have to use modern technology to be competitive. The application of up-to-date technology helps businesses solve complex problems making daily office tasks faster, secured and most of all cost-saving. Payroll is the sum of all financial records of an employee. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during certain period of time. Payroll system is the heart of every Human Resource System in an organization. [STUD2011] The developed system for Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino High school is classified as a Transaction Process System (TPS) because it can provide accurate data and reports in a certain business, In this case the payroll in the said school. Payroll System with Biometrics for Benigno “Ninoy“ S. Aquino National High School 1-1 Transaction Processing System has characteristic...
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...Abstract Have you ever stopped for a second to reflect on a piece of cinema? Or more to the point reflected on an envisioned portrayal of mankind’s future? Well recently I have and two different depictions greatly jump out in my mind. First being the dystopian society of peace and security, or one in which mankind is traveling the universe and accomplishing miraculous feats. While having seemingly circumvented the current social, economic, and environmental predicaments we find ourselves in today. Second being an apocalyptic wasteland where war and famine have brought our race to its knees. Unlike the previous case no doubt a future where mankind’s arrogance, greed, short sightedness doomed the future of our race and planet. What could lead to such a drastically different scenarios? Where did these hypothetical futures diverge? Why did one path succeed with today’s problems and the other not? What it boils down to in my opinion is a successful management of resources. Having taken that second of reflection I realized recycling at its core is nothing more than a management of resources. Not only that, I believe it has the potential to solve many of the challenges we face today, while pointing us toward the path of a successful future. Therefore, I feel a drastic increase in community and national recycling could exponentially improve our unity with other citizens, bolster our economy, and protect our environment while strengthening it at the same time. Recycling Overhaul: ...
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...Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has identified key plans and the corresponding changes to the federal tax code that would fund these plans on his website. The revenues needed to pay for these plans would come from five primary sources: increases in (1) federal income taxes, (2) payroll taxes, (3) business income taxes, (4) estate/gift taxes, and (5) two new excise taxes. There is variance regarding the amount the plan would generate in a decade but the average is roughly $14.5 trillion. Aside from personal opinions regarding changes, the intrinsic questions seem to be- Will Bernie’s proposed changes to the tax code generate enough revenue to cover his plans? Economists’ predictions along with Sanders’s own estimates state that no, Sander’s tax plan will not be able to generate enough revenues to cover all of his plans as expansively larger taxes and governmental spending will severely damage long-term economic growth. In order to analyze Sander’s plan more in depth, it is beneficial to look at each proposed change to the federal tax code individually. First, increases in federal income taxes. There are many changes Sander’s has proposed in regards to income taxes but according to the Tax Policy Center, the three changes that are expected to generate the biggest portion of revenue over the next decade are: (1) four new surtax brackets for high-income households; (2) taxing of gains/dividends as ordinary income; and (3) raising the net investment income tax to 10 percent...
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...The Functional Roles of Human Resource Bernard Jackson Human Resources Management MBA 533 August 18, 2013 Abstract Many large, middle-sized and even small business organizations have a functional human resources department. The functional roles of an HR department remain the same regardless of the size of your business. As the name indicates, the department exists to manage and assist the human element of the company. Since human capital is the most important asset of any organization, having an efficient and quality human resources department is key to the quality and success of the organization. Human resources functional activity supports strategic initiatives. Strategic planning drives functional or transactional processes. HR managers are capable of implementing strategy and carrying out activities that support their strategic plans. Typically, a human resources manager or director develops department strategy depending on the functional expertise of HR specialists. Generally, HR is the process of managing and motivating employees. Some roles of HR vary based on the organization, but there are a number of common functions that are constant. If HR is effective, employees across the company produce optimal results. The functional roles of any Human Resource department varies but the duties are key to the success of any organization. Recruitment and hiring the right people, putting them in the right positions for their abilities and skills is crucial...
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