We can not afford the overhead associated with the administration of 27 separate payroll systems.

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At that time, Fiat was fiercely cutting costs by bringing everything from payroll systems to building maintenance in-house.

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Consider the impact of fraud, which workers often commit by tampering with computerized billing, payroll and other financial systems.

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Their systems will do this work along with payroll, shipping and accounting.

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Larger payroll service companies are also likely to have tested and effective systems in place to serve employers.

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These countries have generally replaced their income tax systems, but have kept what amounts to relatively high payroll taxes.

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They wanted to find a way of monitoring those systems responsible for key business applications such as invoicing, payroll and purchasing, and identify which are most at risk of failure.

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