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Should You Set-Up a Foreign aSubsidiary in Africa

Should You Set-Up a Foreign Subsidiary in Africa?

As the opportunities in Africa continue to multiply, organisations are now increasingly curious about their chances on the continent, with some already committing resources to establishing a foothold therein.  Already, the FDI inflows into Africa reached a new high of $83billion in 2021. It is no wonder that some experts have dubbed Africa the biggest […]

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How to Conduct a Global Payroll Audit in 8 Steps

How to Conduct a Global Payroll Audit in 8 Steps

As a global organisation, you should conduct a payroll audit regularly, whether you are striving to ensure your payroll processes are accurate and compliant or your business is preparing for an inspection from a regulatory body.   When properly administered, a payroll audit is an effective way to ensure that proficient payroll processing meets your legal

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What Is Payroll Accounting Benefits & Easy Steps to Follow

What Is Payroll Accounting? Benefits & Easy Steps to Follow

What is Payroll accounting, you ask? Payroll Accounting involves the recording of all transactions in your books.    Payroll accounting also consists of filing and tracking employee compensation data like money withheld from each paycheck, taxes, and benefits the employee receives.    What Does Payroll Accounting Include? Employee compensation  Payroll taxes  Employer taxes    The employer portion of

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A What Is Salary Revision Factors & Tips for Effective Implementation

What Is Salary Revision? Factors & Tips for Effective Implementation

It’s easy to confuse salary revision with terms like a salary increase, increment, structure and the like, so what is salary revision?  Salary revision involves modifying a pay structure, including all primary salary components — before paying salaries to employees within an organisation.   This payroll modification is a broader term for comprehensively reviewing all salary

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Pay As You Earn (PAYE) vs Direct Assessment Tax in Nigeria

Pay As You Earn (PAYE) vs Direct Assessment Tax in Nigeria

Tax is imposed on persons either in employment or is running their small businesses under a business name or partnership. PAYE and Direct Assessment are ways of assessing individuals to tax in Nigeria.  The Personal Income Tax Act (Cap P8 LFN 2004) is the legislation guiding the taxation of personal income in Nigeria. Under the

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How to Create an Annual Payroll Budget for Your Company

How to Create an Annual Payroll Budget for Your Company

Annual payroll budgeting focuses on manpower It tells you what staffing you need to help your company accomplish your desired objectives in the next 12 months and whether you have the money to accommodate them.  Before the budgeting process, an organisation should have collected various kinds of data. From an HR perspective, the data needed

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Doing Business in Nigeria A Payroll Management Guide

Doing Business in Nigeria: A Payroll Management Guide

Payroll Management in Nigeria — Delving into payroll management requires that we return to a few basics to appreciate the breadth of the discourse fully. So we begin with payroll itself…  What Is Payroll? The financial records of an organisation’s employees’ salaries, wages, bonuses, allowances, and deductions are handled by payroll. It also refers to

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9 Employment Laws in Nigeria that Sketch the Labour Landscape

9 Employment Laws in Nigeria that Sketch the Labour Landscape

Employment Law — Nigeria has become a leading business hub in Africa in recent years, making it attractive for international organisations interested in expanding. However, in establishing any organisation, employment contracts that abide by the country’s laws must be carefully drawn up and followed to the letter.    In Nigeria, employment laws are primarily responsible for

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