Prof. Schweikrt was helping the class with the file handling for assignments 3B and 3D.

Assignment 4                                                                                                                                                         

CASE STUDY -PAYROLL SYSTEM PHASE 4: DECISION-MAKING

At this phase of the payroll system, we are going to include the appropriate tax rate (variable) rather than a fixed tax rate of 10% (constant). The program will also compute the overtime pay.

4A) Assign different tax rates based on the following gross pay:

            gross pay > 500.00 then taxrate = 0.30 (30%)

                        gross pay > 200.00 then taxrate = 0.20

                        anything less        then taxrate = 0.10

 4B) Determine an additional tax rate based on marital status:

  1) Declare marital status as a number (integer).

            1=Single    2=Married    3=Head of Household

                         an additional 5% will be added to the tax rate of a single person

                        subtract 5% if head of household

2) Declare marital status as character (working with either letters M, S, H or character digits 1,2,3).

3) Program should accept either upper case or lower case letters for marital status (e.g. accept M or m).

4) Use the visual basic radio button from the toolbox.

4C) Compute the overtime pay according to the following formula:

  Any hours over 40 are considered time and a half (overtime).

  You may want to find overtime hours (e.g. hoursworked – 40) and overtime pay

  (e.g. overtimehours*hourlyrate * 1.5).