Assume You Are Working with a Payroll Application That Produces

question 72

Essay

Assume you are working with a payroll application that produces weekly paychecks, including paystubs. Listed below are 20 data elements that appear on the paycheck/paystub.
Required:
For each numbered item, indicate the immediate (versus ultimate) source of the item. For instance, the immediate source of the number of exemptions for an employee would be the employee master file as opposed to the ultimate source which is the W-4 form filed by the employee. Some items may have more than one source, as in the case of item 1. You have the following choices:
$\begin{array}{l}\mathrm{E}=\text { Employee master file } \\\mathrm{T} \quad \text { Time clock cards (these are in machine-readable form and show for each } \\\text { employee for each day the time punched in the morning out at lunch, } \\\mathrm{H} \quad \text { in after lunch, and out in the evening) } \\\mathrm{H}=\text { "Table" file of hourly wage rates (i.e., wage rate "class" and hourly rate for eacl: } \\\mathrm{W}=\text { "Table" file of state and federal income tax withholding amounts plus FICA tax } \\\mathrm{CG}=\text { rate and annual "cutoff" amount for FICA wages. } \\\mathrm{CC}=\text { Computer generated (such as a date or time of day supplied by the system) } \\\mathrm{CO}=\text { Computer calculated }\end{array}$
Arrange your answer as follows:
$\begin{array}{llcc} \underline{\text { Item }} & \underline{\text { Source }} \\1& \text { T, E } \\2& \text { ?} \\ \text {etc. } &\\\end{array}$

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