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T Timeline 2023-2024

4 Quarters
 Spreadsheet – 14th October 2023
Task A
o Create the information for the 26 employees’ salary details for the month of October
2023. The allowances and deductions from Table 2 must be calculated using cell
references as there may be changes in their rates. Use IF function and Vlookup
function to efficiently retrieve the information from Table 1.

o Add extra columns to include the Gross income and Net income. Gross income is
calculated by the following formula: Basic Salary + Allowances. Net income is
calculated by the following formula: Gross Income – Deductions.

o Include a row to calculate the totals of each of the numeric columns.

o On a separate sheet, show a summary section which will have the following
information:

o
Alice SUMMARY SECTION
Highest Gross Income
Lowest Deductions
Average Net Income
Number of Person who have deductions more than $500
Percentage of Total Amount paid as Travel Allowance

Audain got a new job and she resigned from her post at CFS. Remove her from the
spreadsheet.

o The management team decided to change the Daily Allowance (DA) rate to12.5%.
Adjust this rate.

o Sort the worksheet in ascending order by employee category as the first sort key and
then by last names.

o Create a complex criterion to select all information on all employees whose last name
begins with ‘W’ and are in the Sales Staff or Assistant Manager category.

o Create a pivot table to show the Total of Salaries, Deductions and Allowances for
various categories.

o Create a pie chart with appropriate titles and legends to compare the total allowances
(DA, TA and EA) and total deductions (SS, EL and Ins) paid by the store for the
month of October 2020.

o Create a bar chart showing the total net incomes of various categories of employees.
 Make sure that it has appropriate title and axis labels.

o Make sure to format your spreadsheet so that it looks presentable. Create appropriate
title row(s) and ensure that you use merge and centre features. The money values
must be in currency format with two decimal places. The percentages must be
formatted to two decimal places. The column headings should be centred and in bold.
Use grid lines where required.

 Word Processing – 28th October 2023

o Create a brochure to inform the public about the variety of clothes and accessories
available at the store and also about their Christmas Sale. The text in the brochure
must be fully justified with 1.5” line spacing. Use columns to create a leaflet that can
be folded. Use appropriate margins and layouts so that folding of the brochure can be
easily done. Be creative!!

o Prepare a letterhead with the name, address and logo of the store. The logo can be a
suitable graphic. Using mail merge facilities, prepare a letter on the letterhead for the
staff members who will be provided with a commission to commend the staff about
their hard work and dedication.

o On the letterhead created, create a fillable form to get the details from prospective
employees. Must be creative.

o The store’s logo

o Display information about the store’s clothing and accessories.

o Links to contact details of the store and other links of interest (another website).

 Database – 14th November 2023

o Set up a database with THREE tables with appropriate field names, data types and
field sizes, containing information on the employees’ details. If you have already
attempted the spreadsheet task, you can copy/import some of the information from
the spreadsheet to form the database tables.

o Use database form features to enter data into the tables and save those forms.

o Open the master table created and sort it in descending order of the last name of
employees.

o Identify appropriate primary keys in the tables and make the relationships between
tables with enforced referential integrity.

o Test your database by performing the following queries:

 o List ID, Fname, Lname, Address and Date joined of ALL Sales Staff who
joined the store after 2015. Save it as 2015qry.

o List ID, Fname, Lname, Address and Contact number of all Sales Staff who
created more than $15000 in the total sales($). Sort the members in
descending order of their last name. Save the query as Salesqry.

o The store has decided to give a Bonus to all employees at a rate of 5% of their
Basic Salary. Create a calculated field called Bonus. List Title, Fname,
Lname, Basic salary, Netsalary and Bonus fields. Save the query as Bonusqry.

o Using query summary features calculate:

 The largest (maximum) TotalSales($) amount achieved by an

employee. Save it as Maxqry.

 The total Bonus earned by all the Sales Staff. Save it as Totqry.

o Produce a report that displays ID, Fname, Lname, Gender, Basic salary and Bonus of
all the Sales Staff. The report should be grouped by gender and should display the
Bonus earned by each employee and the grand total of commission paid out by
company. The report should have the following title in ALL pages:

 Caribbean Fashion Store

 Bonus Details of Employees

o Create a subform to display the sales details of the employees on the Salary Details
form.

 Programming – 14th January 2024

o Create a problem statement for calculating the sales and commission details of the staff.\

o Create a list of variables and their descriptions to be used in the algorithm.

o Develop an algorithm in pseudocode or flowchart that will accept the first name and last
name of at least 4 sales staff members and their Week1sales($), Week2sales($),
Week3sales($), Week4sales($) for the month. The algorithm must then calculate the total
sales. Based on the total sales the following commission is given:
o Total sales more than $14999 at 6% of their total sales amount
o Total sales more than $9999 - 14999 at 5% of their total sales amount
o Total sales more than $4999 - 9999 at 4% of their total sales amount
o Below $5000 at 3% of their total sales amount
o The algorithm should then display the name, Week1sales($), Week2sales($),
Week3sales($), Week4sales($), total sales and commission of each sales staff. It should
also display the average sales for the month, the highest/lowest commission and the
number of persons who made more than $15000 in total sales.

o Design and execute a trace table with appropriate column headings and appropriate test
data (a sample of 5 persons from spreadsheet) to demonstrate the change of values and to
see if the algorithm would produce the desired output.