Key takeaways
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What is a payroll audit?
A payroll audit is a thorough examination of your payroll processes to ensure accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. During an audit, you will review employee rosters, payroll reports, and reconcile against employee hours, payments, and company accounts. If you’re doing payroll yourself, you might even find some errors from manual calculation that need to be corrected. Using payroll software—even free payroll software—and a checklist can expedite processing payroll, ensuring you don’t miss any steps while identifying areas for improvement.