As a business owner there often comes a time when you need to take a step back and let some of your employees take on the responsibility for tasks you may have previously done yourself. Often there is a lot of trust involved as you may be giving the employees access to confidential information or allowing them to handle money for the business.
Before handing over this responsibility it is important that you gain the trust of the employee. Often this will be done over time, but if you are taking on someone new then you may need to rely on recommendations and references.
When giving anyone a new responsibility it is important that you train them properly in what they need to do. It is also important to tell them what they should do if they make a mistake, after all we all do! You may wish to write out a list of how to do a certain task and tell them if they make an error what the procedure is. It may be that they are doing the payroll and have sent it through to the accountants with errors on. If this is the case the important step is to ring the accountants and put a stop on the wages being processed until you have rectified it.