Checking a Duplicate Payroll Entry
Payroll officer (speaking English) and Warehouse employee (speaking Igbo) talk through “Checking a Duplicate Payroll Entry”. You interpret both ways — English into Igbo, and Igbo into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Let's compare the code on your payslip with your approved timesheets for the pay period ending 11 October. What seems wrong with the payment recorded?
Model answer and marking points
Ka anyị jiri koodu dị n'akwụkwọ nkọwa ụgwọ ọrụ gị tụnyere akwụkwọ ndekọ oge ọrụ gị ndị a kwadoro maka oge ịkwụ ụgwọ ọrụ nke gwụchara n'ụbọchị iri na otu nke Ọktoba. Gịnị ka i chere na ezighị ezi n'ụgwọ e dekọrọ na a kwụrụ gị?
What an examiner checks here:
- Compare payslip code with approved timesheets
- Pay period ending 11 October
- question: What seems wrong with the recorded payment?
Easy to miss: The comparison concerns the pay period ending 11 October, not necessarily the payment date.
Biko, enwere awa isii m na-amaghị ma a gụnyere ha n'ụgwọ ahụ. Ihe e dere bụ otu puku na narị anọ na iri ise dọla, maka oge ụgwọ ọrụ gwụchara n'ụbọchị iri na otu nke Ọktoba.
Model answer and marking points
Please, there are six hours that I'm not sure were included in that payment. The amount recorded is one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, for the pay period ending on 11 October.
What an examiner checks here:
- Six hours in question
- Unsure whether those hours were included
- Recorded amount of $1450
- Pay period ending 11 October
Easy to miss: The speaker is unsure whether the six hours were paid, rather than claiming they were definitely unpaid.
Our Auburn payroll record shows $1450 paid, but that figure alone doesn't confirm which hours were included. Can you show me the disputed shifts?
Model answer and marking points
Ndekọ ịkwụ ụgwọ ọrụ anyị dị na Auburn na-egosi na a kwụrụ gị dọla otu puku na narị anọ na iri ise, mana naanị ego ahụ egosighị awa ndị a gụnyere. Ị nwere ike igosi m oge ọrụ ndị ị na-ekwu na e nwere nsogbu na ha?
What an examiner checks here:
- Auburn payroll record
- $1450 shown as paid
- Amount alone does not confirm included hours
- question: Can you show the disputed shifts?
Easy to miss: The $1450 figure does not establish which hours were included.
Ee, lee foto akwụkwọ ndekọ oge ọrụ m n'ekwentị m. Awa isii ahụ dị na ya, a kwadokwala akwụkwọ ahụ.
Model answer and marking points
Yes, here's a photo of my timesheet on my phone. Those six hours are on it, and the timesheet has already been approved.
What an examiner checks here:
- Photo of the speaker's timesheet
- Photo on the speaker's phone
- Six hours listed
- Timesheet already approved
Easy to miss: The timesheet has already been approved; approval is not still pending.
Please show me that photo. It matches the approved timesheet on file. These six hours appear separately under an adjustment code; I'll check the calculation.
Model answer and marking points
Biko, gosi m foto ahụ. Ọ dabara n'akwụkwọ ndekọ oge ọrụ a kwadoro nke anyị nwere na faịlụ. Awa isii ndị a pụtara iche n'okpuru koodu e ji egosi mmezi; aga m elele otú e si gbakọọ ụgwọ ahụ.
What an examiner checks here:
- Request to see the photo
- Photo matches approved timesheet on file
- Six hours appear separately
- Hours under an adjustment code
- Speaker will check the calculation
Easy to miss: An adjustment code is not confirmation of an additional payment.
O nweghị nkọwa e dere n'akụkụ koodu ahụ. Ọ bụ ya mere na amaghị m ma a kwụọla m ụgwọ awa ndị ahụ, ma ọ bụ na a ka ji m ụgwọ.
Model answer and marking points
There is no explanation written next to that code. That's why I don't know whether I've been paid for those hours or whether I'm still owed money.
What an examiner checks here:
- No explanation next to the code
- Missing explanation causes uncertainty
- Unsure whether hours have been paid
- Unsure whether money is still owed
Easy to miss: Keep both possibilities: the hours may already be paid, or payment may still be owing.
That's right; the code doesn't prove that extra money was paid. I need to match the approved hours against the detailed calculation before changing anything.
Model answer and marking points
Nke ahụ ziri ezi; koodu ahụ abụghị ihe akaebe na a kwụrụ ego ọzọ. Ọ dị m mkpa iji awa ndị a kwadoro tụnyere nkọwa zuru ezu nke mgbakọ ụgwọ ahụ tupu m agbanwee ihe ọ bụla.
What an examiner checks here:
- Acknowledges the previous point
- Code does not prove extra money was paid
- Approved hours must be checked against detailed calculation
- Check required before any changes
Easy to miss: The speaker must check the calculation before changing anything.
Ọ dị mma. Biko, lelee ya nke ọma. Achọrọ m ịmata ma akwụgoro m ụgwọ awa niile m rụrụ, ka m ghara ịrịọ otu ụgwọ ugboro abụọ.
Model answer and marking points
All right. Please check it carefully. I want to know whether I've been paid for all the hours I worked, so I don't ask for the same payment twice.
What an examiner checks here:
- Agrees to the check
- Requests a careful check
- Wants to know whether all hours worked were paid
- Wants to avoid requesting the same payment twice
Easy to miss: The speaker wants to avoid claiming twice, rather than asking for another payment.
The calculation includes all six hours once. The adjustment line repeats hours already listed under ordinary hours, so the record is duplicated, although the payment is correct.
Model answer and marking points
Mgbakọ ụgwọ ahụ gụnyere awa isii ahụ niile naanị otu ugboro. Ahịrị mmezi ahụ depụtaghachiri awa ndị e depụtarala n'okpuru awa ọrụ nkịtị, ya mere e dekọrọ awa ndị ahụ ugboro abụọ, ọ bụ ezie na ego a kwụrụ ziri ezi.
What an examiner checks here:
- Calculation includes all six hours
- Six hours counted only once in payment
- Adjustment line repeats ordinary hours
- Record is duplicated
- Payment is correct
Easy to miss: The record contains duplicate hours, but the payment counts them only once.
Ugbu a aghọtara m. Ya bụ, a gụnyere awa isii ahụ n'ụgwọ m, ma e dekọrọ ha ugboro abụọ. Biko, mezie ndekọ ahụ ka o doo anya.
Model answer and marking points
Now I understand. So those six hours were included in my pay, but they were recorded twice. Please correct the record so it's clear.
What an examiner checks here:
- Speaker now understands
- Six hours included in pay
- Hours recorded twice
- Requests correction for clarity
Easy to miss: The six hours were recorded twice, not paid twice.
I'll correct the duplicate entry and give you a revised payment record showing the explanation. Your recorded payment remains $1450; this correction doesn't create another payment.
Model answer and marking points
Aga m edozi ihe ahụ e dekọrọ ugboro abụọ ma nye gị ndekọ ịkwụ ụgwọ e mezigharịrị nke ga-egosi nkọwa ya. Ego e dekọrọ na a kwụrụ gị ka bụ dọla otu puku na narị anọ na iri ise; mmezi a agaghị eme ka a kwụọ gị ụgwọ ọzọ.
What an examiner checks here:
- Will correct the duplicate entry
- Will provide a revised payment record
- Revised record will include an explanation
- Recorded payment remains $1450
- Correction creates no additional payment
Easy to miss: Correcting the entry does not change the $1450 payment or generate another payment.
Daalụ. Nke ahụ doro m anya ugbu a. Aga m eji ndekọ ọhụrụ ahụ tụnyere nke ochie, ka m wee ghọta ihe koodu ahụ pụtara ma chekwaa ha abụọ.
Model answer and marking points
Thank you. That's clear to me now. I'll compare the new record with the old one so I can understand what that code means, and I'll keep both.
What an examiner checks here:
- Thanks the other speaker
- Explanation now clear
- Will compare new and old records
- Comparison to understand the code
- Will keep both records
Easy to miss: The speaker will keep both records, rather than replace or discard the old one.
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