Written By Larry Beebe
Bond Beebe
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Does Not Allow the Auditor to Stay When He/She Leaves

You are at the employer’s office doing your payroll audit.  It is 3:00 PM and you estimate that if you hustle, you can get done by 6:00 PM.  The employer representative says that he/she has to leave at 4:00 PM and you will have to leave then as well.

You should inform the employer representative that you still have about 3 hours of work to do and you were unaware until that moment that you could not stay to complete the job.  Tell the employer representative that you do not need his/her presence and ask to stay until you are done.  If that doesn’t work, ask if you can take the relevant records back to the hotel with you (if this is an out of town engagement) and that you will return them in the morning.

If you are still refused, you should leave when requested and make arrangements to come back when you can.  If the plan has a clause that assesses an employer the cost of an audit when deficiencies are found, you should point that out to the employer representative and tell him/her (politely) that not allowing you to stay and finish will escalate the cost of the audit and the will cost the employer more in the long term.

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