Chapter II 2.

1 Local Literature

According to Dave de Leon, a business partner of Brion Grow America, Inc., he said that there is a huge opportunity in human resource and job placement in the US where it is experiencing a shortage in qualified medical and IT professionals as well as teachers. The level of IT penetration among medium-sized companies in the US is less than five percent. Most of the companies have only automated their payroll and part of their accounting systems. In the Philippines, mediumsized companies are more automated than their US counterparts. We have good schools that produce competent engineers, accountants and IT graduates. What we need most are IT-literate professionals and not necessarily software programmers.

2.2

Foreign Literature

In an article written by James Bell, he wrote about the misunderstanding in the general business community regarding this process is that electronic time clocks will be able to do the collection, interpretation and export to payroll steps which is exceptionally unlikely. Sometimes in an automated system, employees clock in and out using a electronic time clock, these data are usually electronically via a network into an interpretation software which has been preconfigured with the rules, the system automatically calculates the payroll hours and this can then be transferred into your payroll software and job done in a more accurately and much faster. Some of the manual calculations done by payroll staff will challenge the very best time clock. And there are some requirements when calculating payroll and they are, ostensibly, outside the capability of electronic Bundy clocks. According to Bells article his study explains how an

automated payroll system can help companies work efficiently and reliably especially in a networked environment.

2.3

Conceptual Framework INPUT PROCESS Designing Data Flow Diagram Flow Chart Coding/ Encoding Automated Payroll System for Guardian Angel Academy OUTPUT

System Analysis and Design Payroll System Concept of the System Visual Basic 6.0 Microsoft Access

2.4

Definition of Terms

Accounting the skill or practice of maintaining and auditing accounts and preparing reports on the assets, liabilities, etc., of a business.

Automated to convert to automatic operation

Bundy Clock or time clock a clock which records, by punching or stamping cards inserted into it, the time of arrival or departure of people, such as employees in a factory.

Comptroller someone who maintains and audits business accounts

Critical containing or making severe or negative judgments

Database any collection of data organized for storage in a computer memory and design for easy access by authorized person.

Data Dictionary also pertains to databases and Database Management System.

Human Resource responsible for hiring and firing, they also handle contacting job references and administering employee benefits.

Marketing the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service.

Microsoft Access a database program.

Networked to connect (computers) into a network.

Payroll system designed for computing salary.

Program set of instructions that direct a computer to perform functions.

Programming creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something.

Programming Language contains series of command in creating software.

System collection or combination of program, procedure, data, and equipment to process information.

Software the programs that can be used with a particular computer system

Solicit to provoke or incite (a person) to do something wrong or illegal

Visual Basic a programming language that is used to build applications or software.