[SL] Re: Payroll

[Matthew P. <mp...@he...>]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:27:14PM -0400, Santoken wrote:
> Payroll, IMHO, is far simplier than many other portions of accounting.=20
> There really is no reason at all to make it anymore complicated than=20
> what it really is.

The problem is that what you think of as "payroll" and what users think of
as "payroll" don't have much to do with each other.  What users think of as
payroll includes the money side of it, as well as tracking the rest of the
weird bits of info you need to worry about when doing HR type stuff, like
tracking leave, historical payrates, and all of that sort of thing.

A general set of rules to do the calculations would be a good start,
however, and should be something you can define in a general (XML or SQL
statements) fashion for distribution within a tax jurisdiction.  Just don't
kid yourself that you'll be able to sell it to the businessman-on-the-street
as a payroll app -- they don't consider it as such.

- Matt

--=20
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