Field notes
Short pieces from engagements in Selangor. They are written for payroll owners and finance controllers, not as vendor commentary.
Where EPF wage-base drift hides in a packaged suite
A contribution file can balance while the wage base for a housing allowance has silently changed after a patch.
Read the notePCB tables after a mid-year patch
Tax-table updates in payroll suites often land in a staging company and never reach the live employer record.
Read the noteOvertime rounding floors in hourly workforces
Daily rounding that looks trivial on one timesheet becomes a systematic underpayment across a factory roster.
Read the noteShared logins still sitting on the pay-run screen
Maker-checker is theatre when both roles are used from the same saved password on the operations PC.
Read the noteLeavers who still travel in the statutory interface
Termination in HR and termination in the contribution job are two different events in most payroll suites.
Read the note