Principles Of Taxation For Business And Investment Planning 2020 Edition
23rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259969546
Author: Sally Jones, Shelley C. Rhoades-Catanach, Sandra R Callaghan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Mary Tan is the controller for Duck Associates, a property management company in
Portland, Oregon. Each year, Tan and payroll clerk Toby Stock meet with the external
auditors about payroll accounting. This year, the auditors suggest that Tan consider
outsourcing Duck Associates's payroll accounting to a company specializing in payroll
processing services. This would allow Tan and her staff to focus on their primary
responsibility: accounting for the properties under management. At present, payroll
requires 1.5 employee positions-payroll clerk Toby Stock and a bookkeeper who
spends half her time entering payroll data in the system.
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Tan considers this suggestion, and she lists the following items relating to out-
sourcing payroll accounting:
a. The current payroll software that was purchased for $4,000 three years ago would
not be needed if payroll processing were outsourced.
b.
uck Associates's bookkeeper would spend half her time preparing the weekly
payroll input form that…
Mary Tan is the controller for Duck Associates, a property management company in Portland, Oregon. Each year, Tan and payroll clerk Toby Stock meet with the external auditors about payroll accounting. This year, the auditors suggest that Tan consider outsourcing Duck Associates’ payroll accounting to a company specializing in payroll processing services. This would allow Tan and her staff to focus on their primary responsibility: accounting for the properties under management. At present, payroll requires 1.5 employee positions: payroll clerk Toby Stock and a bookkeeper who spends half her time entering payroll data in the system.
Tan considers this suggestion, and she lists the following items relating to outsourcing payroll accounting:
a.     The current payroll software that was purchased for $4,000 three years ago would not be needed if payroll processing were outsourced.
b.     Duck Associates’ bookkeeper would spend half her time preparing the weekly payroll input form that is…
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