Accounting and bookkeeping departments – what are they for? Oh, their most important function is to calculate Payroll for everyone who is working. They must record all the salaries and taxes earned and paid by every employee for each pay period. Also this payroll department has to check that the correct federal, state and local taxes are being subtracted.
All these taxes are recorded in the pay stub attached to your paycheck. This stub generally includes income tax, social security taxes, different employment taxes that must be paid to federal and state government and the other deductions including such as for retirement, vacation, sick pay or medical benefits.
So this is main and most critical function. Various companies have their own payroll departments; others outsource these calculations to specialists. The accounting department obtains and registers any payments or cash received from customers or clients of the business or service and also they must make sure that the money is sourced accurately and deposited in the appropriate accounts. Their another function is to manage where the money goes to; how much of it is kept on-hand for areas such as payroll, or how much of it goes out to pay what the company owes its banks, vendors and other obligations.
The payables areas, or cash expenses is another side of the receivables business. The accounting department prepares all checks that have been written out during the course of year to pay for purchases, supplies, salaries, taxes, loans and services and records to whom they were disbursed, how much and for what.
These accounting departments should also be on top of purchase orders placed for inventory, such as products that will be sold to customers or clients and other assets such as a business’s property and equipment.
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