| Employee's deductions and net pay | | | | 15 |
| The excel worksheet comprises of an example of | | | | 300 |
| an excel worksheet that will aid in the calculation | | | | 30 |
| of the employees net pay after the deductions | | | | 18.6 |
| such as taxes, union fees and social security | | | | 4.5 |
| funds, the worksheet could help in reducing | | | | 53.1 |
| lengthy calculations and it acts as a program that | | | | 246.9 |
| makes this calculation easier. | | | | 5 |
| For an employer with more than 1000 workers it | | | | LINCOLN |
| will be very difficult to prepare holdings for federal | | | | 18 |
| taxes and the net pay to be given to workers, | | | | 20 |
| however the use of an excel worksheet helps in | | | | 360 |
| reducing this work burden and the calculation of | | | | 36 |
| net pay for more than 1000 workers can be | | | | 22.32 |
| done in minutes. | | | | 5.4 |
| The columns of the spread sheet include: | | | | 63.72 |
| - The employee's number | | | | 296.28 |
| - Employee's name | | | | 6 |
| - Hours per week | | | | ELIAS |
| - Hourly pay rate or pay per hour | | | | 15 |
| - Total gross pay | | | | 24 |
| - Federal tax level | | | | 360 |
| - Social security and Medicare withholdings | | | | 36 |
| - Union fees | | | | 22.32 |
| - Total deductions | | | | 5.4 |
| - Disposable income or net pay | | | | 63.72 |
| The excel worksheet involves the provision of | | | | 296.28 |
| formulas in each cell and then auto fill to the other | | | | 7 |
| required cells, however caution must be | | | | SOLOMON |
| undertaken to avoid errors when multiplying a | | | | 16 |
| column with a single cell, however auto filling helps | | | | 30 |
| reduce the problem of having to multiply on each | | | | 480 |
| row, further the sheet can be used to undertake | | | | 101.5 |
| calculation of over 1000 employees. | | | | 29.76 |
| The worksheet has a number of 10 employees | | | | 7.2 |
| namely James, John, Michael, Alex, Lincoln, Elias, | | | | 138.46 |
| Solomon, David, Grace and Carol, all of them are | | | | 341.54 |
| married and they work different total of hours | | | | 8 |
| per week, they are also paid at different rates | | | | DAVID |
| and their taxation depends on the level of gross | | | | 17 |
| weekly pay, below is a summary of the | | | | 26 |
| reductions for all the employees: | | | | 442 |
| For Federal holdings if gross wage is less than | | | | 44.2 |
| 449 dollars the rate is 10%, if it is more than 449 | | | | 27.404 |
| dollars then the rate is 29.5 + 15% of gross pay, | | | | 6.63 |
| however all our employees earn between 0 and | | | | 78.234 |
| 500 dollars gross weekly wage. The social security | | | | 363.77 |
| and Medicare is 6.20% for all the employees and | | | | 9 |
| finally the union fee is 1.5% for all the workers. | | | | GRACE |
| Results:numbernamehours per weekpay per | | | | 14 |
| hourgross payfederal taxsocial security and | | | | 30 |
| Medicare withholdingsunion duestotal | | | | 420 |
| deductionsdisposable income(net pay) | | | | 42 |
| 1 | | | | 26.04 |
| JAMES | | | | 6.3 |
| 20 | | | | 74.34 |
| 20 | | | | 345.66 |
| 400 | | | | 10 |
| 40 | | | | CAROL |
| 24.8 | | | | 25 |
| 6 | | | | 20 |
| 70.8 | | | | 500 |
| 329.2 | | | | 104.5 |
| 2 | | | | 31 |
| JOHN | | | | 7.5 |
| 24 | | | | 143 |
| 15 | | | | 357 |
| 360 | | | | Advantages: |
| 36 | | | | - Easy to use |
| 22.32 | | | | - Can be used to calculate tax levels for a large |
| 5.4 | | | | sample of employees within minutes |
| 63.72 | | | | - Self explanatory in that all calculations are well |
| 296.28 | | | | defined |
| 3 | | | | Disadvantages: |
| MICHAEL | | | | - It is not easy to multiply or copy the program |
| 22 | | | | to a new spread sheet |
| 15 | | | | - It will be cumbersome to make such a |
| 330 | | | | programming on weekly bases |
| 33 | | | | - A single error may lead to wrong impressions of |
| 20.46 | | | | tax levels |
| 4.95 | | | | Recommendation: |
| 58.41 | | | | The excel spread sheet should have an option |
| 271.59 | | | | that allows copying the formulas from one spread |
| 4 | | | | sheet to another, this will aid in quick duplication of |
| ALEX | | | | weekly and dairy tax pay. |
| 20 | | | | |