Weekly overtime exception workbook and department time export — "Unapproved overtime hours reach payroll because badge punches were never matched"
Why the manual spreadsheet breaks financial controls and how a deterministic workflow replaces it.
Overtime is compiled by pasting badge punches and timesheet hours into a weekly exception workbook, then approved after the hours have already hit payroll.
Unapproved overtime reaches the pay register because badge exceptions were never matched to the department policy before the run locked.
Badge and timesheet telemetry that classifies regular versus overtime against the policy and blocks unapproved overtime from the pay lock.
Hours assertion: overtime hours cannot enter a locked pay run unless they match badge telemetry and carry an approval for that policy class and week.
Three-stage comparison between manual workbook reconciliation and automated rule-based execution.
Badge punches and timesheets are pasted after hours already paid.
Unapproved overtime reaches payroll because badge exceptions never met the policy.
Overtime must match badge telemetry and carry an approval.
Overtime cannot enter a locked pay run unless it matches badge telemetry and an approval.
Adjacent spreadsheet failure modes in the same APQC Category 9 process group.
Time tracking export and professional services billable hours workbook
Quarter-end HR payroll liability export and unused leave sheet
HR W-4 change log and payroll tax withholding override sheet
Scope the replacement architecture for manual overtime hour compilation from badge and timesheet exports or combine multiple failure modes in the directory.
