Personnel cost to perform the process "perform general accounting" per process FTE

This measure calculates personnel cost per process full-time equivalent (FTE) employee to perform the process "perform general accounting," which consists of managing an organization's ongoing financial records. Personnel cost refers to employee salaries/wages, bonuses, benefits, etc. This measure is part of a set of Cost Effectiveness measures that help companies understand all cost expenditures related to the "perform general accounting" process.

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Measure Category:
Cost Effectiveness
Measure Id:
103059
Total Sample Size:
2,056 All Companies
Performers:
25th
– Median
– 75th
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Key Performance
Indicator:
Yes

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Units for this measure are dollars.

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Personnel cost to perform the process "perform general accounting" / Number of FTEs who perform the process "perform general accounting"

Key Terms

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FTE - (full-time equivalent employee)

To calculate the number of full-time equivalents employed during the year for each respective process or activity, you must prorate the number of employees and the hours spent performing each process/activity. Assume that a full-time worker represents 40 hours per week. Provide the average number of full-time equivalents employed during the year for each respective process. Include full-time employees, part-time employees, and temporary workers hired during peak demand periods. Allocate only the portion of the employee's time that relates to or supports the activities identified for an applicable process. Prorate management and secretarial time by estimating the level of effort in support of each activity, by process.

For example, a part-time secretary in the finance department for XYZ, Inc. charges all of his time to finance department activities. He works 20 hours per week. The secretary splits his time evenly supporting employees working in the general accounting process and the financial reporting process. Thus, his time should be allocated by process. So, if he works throughout the year and supports these two processes, his time would be split evenly as:

20hrs/40hrs = .5FTE * 50% for general accounting = .25FTE for general accounting

20hrs/40hrs = .5FTE * 50% for financial reporting = .25FTE for financial reporting

Personnel Cost

Personnel cost is the cost associated with personnel compensation and fringe benefits of employees (i.e., those classified as FTEs which includes both full-time and salaried/hourly employees) contributing to each respective process. Personnel cost should include all of the following costs.

Employee Compensation: Includes salaries and wages, bonuses, overtime and benefits.

Fringe: Includes contributions made towards the employees' government retirement fund, workers compensation, insurance plans, savings plans, pension funds/retirement plans, and stock purchase plans. This should also include special allowances, such as relocation expenses and car allowances.

Cost Effectiveness

Cost effectiveness measures are those in which two related variables, one of which is the cost and one of which is the related outcome related to the expenditure are used to determine a particular metric value.

Median

The metric value which represents the 50th percentile of a peer group. This could also be communicated as the metric value where half of the peer group sample shows lower performance than the expressed metric value or half of the peer group sample shows higher performance than the expressed metric value.

Measure Scope

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Cross Industry (7.3.0)

  • 9.3.2.1 - Maintain chart of accounts (10819) - Preparing trial balance account from general ledgers. List all accounts used in the general ledger. Alter accounts according to business requirements.
  • 9.3.2.2 - Process journal entries (10820) - Making ledger and trial balance accounts from journal entries. This process requires the organization to record every transaction into accounts done by business. It is a base documents for preparing final accounts of company.
  • 9.3.2.3 - Process allocations (10821) - Allocating funds across functions. Apportion funds in line with the budgets created. Formalize allocations in centralized internal records.
  • 9.3.2.4 - Process period end adjustments (10822) - Updating journal entries to adjust the balance of income and expenses at the end of an accounting period.
  • 9.3.2.5 - Post and reconcile intercompany transactions (10823) - Checking accounts separately for a parent and subsidiary company. Manage relationship between a parent company and subsidiaries. Document intercompany transactions in separate financial statements.
  • 9.3.2.6 - Reconcile general ledger accounts (10824) - Reviewing general ledger accounts for a parent and subsidiaries companies. Validate the integrity of account balances on the company's general ledger of accounts. Review and compare general ledger accounts balances with source documents to ensure that balances match.
  • 9.3.2.7 - Perform consolidations and process eliminations (10825) - Aggregating different processes in the business. Eliminate discontinued processes.
  • 9.3.2.8 - Prepare trial balance (10826) - Balancing debit and credit balances of trial balance to preparing final accounts. Calculate the total debits and credits in company's accounts. Correspond the sum of all debits with the sum of all credits. Adjust entries as appropriate.
  • 9.3.2.9 - Prepare and post management adjustments (10827) - Accounting for changes due to country-level policy changes. Record adjustments made by management in the accounts.