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St. Stephen’s College

School Code: 160076
Information Technology
SBA 2025

The Caribbean Fashion Store is a prominent clothes store in the district of Sands in the island of
Dominican. The store has been using the manual method of operations in all areas of business. This year
the company’s management team has decided to computerize its operations for efficient running of the
business. The computer system they purchased came with general purpose software that has word
processing, spreadsheet, and database management components.

As a test, the owner of the store would like to use the software to carry out the following tasks for the
month of October:
1. Generation of a brochure and a web site that informs the public about the clothes store and details
of the Christmas sale
2. Analysis of the salary details of the employees for the month
3. Storage of personal information of employees and their sales details
4. Preparation of letters for the outstanding employees to inform them about their commission
amounts

You are in charge of setting up the word processing, spreadsheet, database templates and a web site that
will permit all employees of the store to efficiently carry out these activities.

Your assumptions or modifications have to be stated clearly along with your printouts. You can
attempt the sections in any order.

SECTION A
SPREADSHEETS

The spreadsheet package will be used to create a model that will allow the owner of the store to
manipulate and monitor the monthly salary details of the employees.

Currently there are 25 employees. There are 4 categories of employees, and each category attracts a
different basic monthly salary. There are 6 supervisors, 17 salespeople, one manager, and one assistant
manager at the store. The categories are given below. This table should be on a separate worksheet.

Category Code Basic Monthly Salary

Manager M $8000
Assistant Manager AM $7000
Supervisor S $5000
Sales Staff SS $3000

There are allowances and deductions to be applied to the employees’ salaries. The allowances are Daily
Allowance, Travel Allowance, and Entertainment Allowance. The deductions are Social Security,
Environmental Levy, and Insurance. These are calculated on the basic salary.
The Travel Allowance and Entertainment Allowance are available to the Manager and the Assistant
Manager ONLY.
The rate of payments of these allowances and deductions needs to be kept on the worksheet with the
basic salary rate.

Allowance Code Rate %

Daily Allowance DA 11%
Travel Allowance TA 6%
Entertainment Allowance EA 3.5%
Social Security SS 6%
Environmental Levy EL 1%
Insurance INS 2%
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You are required to:

Create one workbook with multiple worksheets that will enable the owner of the store to easily analyze,
modify, and monitor the salary details of his staff. The following is a sample section of the worksheet.
If you have already attempted the database task you can copy the information from the database to form
the worksheets.

Allowances Deductions

First Last Category Basic DA TA EA SS EL INS Total Total

Name Name Code Salary Allowances Deductions
John Browne SS $3000 $330 0 0 $180 $30 $60 $330 $270

TASK A:

Create a spreadsheet with appropriate title row and columns to show the information for 25 employees’
salary details for the month of October 2023. Save your worksheet as Task A

1. Use two or more sheet to link data. E.g. Task A and Rates [1 mark]

2. The allowances and deductions must be calculated using cell references only, as there may be
changes in rates. Use of relative and absolute addressing and arithmetic formula(*). [3 marks]

3. Apply the following function:

- Use logical IF to calculate basic salary of employee
- Include a row to find the SUM totals of each of the numerical columns
- Use the countif function to double check the number of employees per category
[3 marks]

4. Apply the following arithmetic formulae:

- Gross Income is calculated by the following formula: Basic Salary + Allowances.
[1 mark]
- Net Income is calculated by the formula: Gross Income – Deductions
[1mark]

5. Merge and center title row across the data. [1 mark]

6. Apply appropriate font style and font size: 18 to the title row. [1 mark]

7. Format all columns with money to currency and two decimal places. [2 marks]

TASK B:

1. Sort the worksheet of Task A by employee category first and then by last name. Save as Data
Sorting. [1mark]

2. (a) Create a complex criterion to select all information on all employees whose last name begins
with ‘B’ and “P” are in Sales Staff categories. [1 mark]

(b) Create a simple filter showing Sale Staff personal who last name range from A-L.
Save the worksheet as Data Extracted. [1 mark]

3. Use a pivot table to show total for each of the following: allowances, deductions, gross income and
net income . Save this information in a worksheet in the same workbook. Label as Data
Summarized [1 mark]

4. Create a pie chart in the same workbook on another worksheet to compare the total allowances
(DA, TA, EA) and total deductions (SS, EL, INS) paid by the store for the month of October 2023.
Label appropriately and save as Data Chart [3 marks]

Total – 20 marks