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How to perform Payroll Testing for Government Audits using DataSnipper

Use Document Matching and Snips to perform payroll testing for government audits, reconciling payroll master data against employment contracts and payroll reports.

Use DataSnipper's Document Matching and Snips to reconcile payroll master data against employment contracts and payroll reports for government audit procedures.

Video tutorial

What the video covers: importing payroll documents, extracting Staff policy data, using Snips to extract Employee Grade data, running Document Matching to reconcile payroll master data against contracts and reports, and performing final grade and payment date checks.

Prerequisites

  • Payroll Master Data

  • Payroll Reports

  • Employment Contracts

  • Staff Policy

Start procedure

  1. Import all relevant documents into DataSnipper.

  2. Extract all necessary Staff policy data before starting your test.

Extracting Staff policy data

  1. Using Snips, extract the "Employee Grade" data for each employee in the analysis.

Extracting Employee Grade data with Snips

  1. To reconcile the payroll master data against the Employee Contracts and Payroll Reports, open Document Matching and select "Start new document matching".

  2. Select the sample data and the folders with the relevant documents.

  3. Structure your input and output table to tailor the result in Excel to your needs.

Configuring Document Matching for payroll reconciliation

  1. For final checks, verify the grade for each employee using the Staff policy, and the date of payment with the payroll report.

Final verification of employee grade and payment date
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