CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

          Computer, the versatile data processing machine has been found very useful in every human endeavor since its incursion into many fields of study, industry, business, sciences and technology in general. Payroll is being prepared by organization, committees, governments and other business firms, it is also part of account department, many organization concern. It is used for the preparation of worker’s salary daily, weekly or monthly.

          The payroll module which helps in data processing, processes monthly pay of all the employees in state civil service commission. The module maintains staff loans, advances, tax and other deductions from staff pay. It also performs annual increment on the salary of qualified staff each month. The payroll list every employee for whom the computer has produced a payroll chewue and shows for each employee what deductions are subtracted from gross earnings to arrive at net pay. This report is reviewed by the manager of the payroll department before the cheques are released for distribution.

1.2     PROBLEM DEFINITION

Over the years, manual method of payroll has been used. This method has its problems. It has been proven to be very ineffective and inefficient. Some of the problems are

1. The job of preparing salary payment manually is tedious causes delay
2. As a result of the problem above, manual method have a lot of discrepancies.
3. This method encourage fraud figures are easily manipulated and changed.
4. The manual method requires people who are competent in mathematics related computation to do a reliable job. As a result people of such are very scarce.

1.3     OBJECTIVES OF STUDY

The study aims at designing a payroll accounting system that will help to eliminate mistakes, delay and frauds associated with manual calculation of workers salaries and entitlements

1.4     SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study aims at designing and implementing a state civil service commission payroll accounting system Enugu

1.5     ASSUMPTIONS

If the designed new system is implemented it may improve and to a large extend enhance the activities of processing staff salary payment in state civil commission Enugu Office

          The workers will be relived by the tedious tasks facing them in the discharging of their duties. They will have more time to themselves and also increase their standard of work

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