FOREWORD BY ANNA BOOTH | FAIR WORK OMBUDSMAN

The Payroll
Blind Spot

What boards and executives misunderstand
about payroll risk.

 

"How do we actually know our people are being paid correctly?"

Because payroll is invisible… until it isn’t.

 

 

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FROM THE BACK COVER

Payroll rarely fails loudly.

It fails quietly, inside assumptions, inherited interpretations and systems that appear to be working until scrutiny arrives.

Written for senior leaders, this book reveals how payroll risk hides, comforted by clean audit opinions and ignored until someone forces the question no one has an answer to.

Drawing on real world examples, regulatory scrutiny and boardroom conversations, The Payroll Blind Spot dismantles common myths.

•  That audit equals assurance

•  That systems guarantee compliance

•  That experience replaces evidence

•  That silence means correctness

This is a leadership book about risk visibility, accountability and confidence, written for those who sign off, manage and ultimately carry responsibility if payroll goes wrong.

 

Because payroll is invisible… until it isn’t.


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Two PDFs a sample chapter from The Payroll Blind Spot  and a sample framework extracted from the book delivered to your inbox.

 

 

The four myths the book dismantles

What boards have been told is not what the regulator will accept.

01

Audit equals assurance

External audit tests the financial statements, not award compliance. A clean opinion does not answer the question your regulator is about to ask.

  

02

Systems guarantee compliance

An HRIS enforces the rules it was configured with — not the rules that actually apply. The vendor cannot underwrite your award interpretation.
     

03

Experience replaces evidence

Twenty years of payroll experience is not a control. Fair Work asks for evidence, and tenure is not evidence.

  

04

Silence means correctness

No employee complaints does not mean no underpayment. The complaint arrives years after the error, alongside the remediation bill.

 

ENDORSEMENT

“Tracy has long been one of Australia's foremost and most trusted voices in payroll. In this timely book, she tackles one of the most pressing questions facing Australian employers: how to ensure the confidence they place in their payroll function is justified. Drawing on her deep expertise, Tracy offers practical guidance and a structured approach that will help organisations build and maintain genuine confidence in payroll.”

ROHAN GEDDES | Former PwC Partner

 

TRACY ANGWIN

Tracy Angwin is the founder and CEO of the Australian Payroll Association. For more than two decades she has advised Australian organisations on payroll governance, assurance and remediation — and is one of the most trusted independent voices on payroll risk at board level.

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PUBLISHED BY

Australian Payroll Association
Tracy Angwin
ISBN 978-0-9875027-5-9

AU$29.95
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Payroll Blind Spot

What boards and executives misunderstand about payroll risk. By Tracy Angwin. Foreword by Anna Booth, Fair Work Ombudsman.