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Strategies for Payroll Success

The Oxford definition of “strategy” is “a plan of action to achieve a long-term or overall aim”. As a verb, it means “the art of planning and directing overall operations and movement”.Tackling a company’s payroll strategically is not just clever. It’s essential for...

How to Build an Employee Benefits Package

Gone are the days when employees would work for a company that pays a salary and perhaps a bonus. Today’s workforce want more tailored benefits. Work is more integrated into our day-to-day living than ever before. Culturally we’ve evolved as workers. Therefore...

12 Top Compliance Tips

12 Top Compliance Tips

Payroll compliance is not as complicated as one thinks. If you know what to do, you will ensure that your company does not incur any penalties. Tips and tricks are what gets us through our daily lives and what good would those be if not making business and following...

Saudi Arabia Labour Law

Saudi Arabia, officially named The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is one of the six countries that form the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). It is located between the Red Sea and The Arabian Gulf and grew its financial influence after discovering substantial petroleum...

What is a GL and how does it link with payroll (OPS)

The ins and outs of payroll and how this can affect both HR and the wider company can be both complex and confusing, thankfully (as always…) we’re here to help! So, no more lengthy rabbit holes down the never-ending internet vacuum trying to find the answer, simply...

The Difference between USA and UAE Payroll

The Taxation journey can be very much like Dorothy venturing into OZ if you think of business as the hot air balloon and the hurricane as compliance and tax regulation. It can be a very confusing journey at first, and your wicked witch of the west – we can all figure...

How payroll outsourcing increases HR productivity

Payroll management is complex, but critical to any organisation. Payroll outsourcing can not only save time, labour and money, but also offers an array of benefits that can clearly improve any business. HR and other business resources can focus on driving the company...

What is payroll processing?

The payroll process is the glorious glamorous beauty who steps out onto the red carpet, effortlessly breathtaking when all the cameras start flashing. What? Never thought of payroll that way? Being glamorous and gorgeous does not happen all by itself. It takes hours...

Five reasons why tech is important in accounting

Five reasons why tech is important in accounting

Accounting is an old profession, but the technology used should not be. As financial officer or chief accountant of your business, you set the accounting policies and processes. There are plenty of reasons why you should go for gold, so to speak. Technology in...

How to avoid payroll mistakes

Payroll in a business is like breathing in a body. It happens automatically without thinking, but if it doesn’t work, the whole system shuts down. A system shut down, or death, is what we all want to avoid at all costs. Payroll is out of sight, out of mind, but...

How OPS can help cut down on payroll admin

The world changes subtly day to day. We adapt to the pace or different slants of conducting our days, and navigate the changes intuitively. We often don’t even spare a thought to the fact that there had been a tiny change or two. The past two years, however, we have...

Payroll Checklist

Payroll Checklist

Many people who are not on payroll think that a payroll team is just a group of accountants organizing pay slips and mailing them to the respective employees. Sometimes departments do not understand the intricacies of each step in the process, every check and...

PASI – What is it?

In this case, PASI is not related to a skin condition. It is the acronym for Public Authority for Social Insurance. It is a child of Oman, and it does what it says on the tin. Quite simply, PASI is the governmental administrative body of the social security law in...

GOSI – What is it?

Covid-19 taught us that social security is a vital part of an employee’s longevity, and employers retaining their best people after the event. In Saudi Arabia, social insurance covers all aspects of social security, with the Saudi government agency General...

Egypt Tax Laws

Egypt’s recorded history started in 3200 BC. It’s an ancient country with much of civilization sprouting from there. However, it’s tax laws are far from ancient. When the Monarchy was overturned during the 1952 Revolution and the new Republic of Egypt emerged, the...

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