Computer Applications for Business - Week 6 Assignment - MS Excel: Update Payroll

Sep 22, 2026

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Weekly payroll report update instructions for PHM Reliable Catering using Microsoft Excel online or an installed version. The assignment requires modifying an existing workbook by removing specified rows and columns, updating employee records, and ensuring formulas for gross pay, overtime-related computations, Taxable Income, federal tax (two-tier rules), state tax, Social Security, Medicare, and Net Pay. It also specifies detailed formatting: column widths, wrapping and row heights, font styling, borders, cell styles, sheet tab naming and color, tax-rate table placement, and page setup fit to one landscape page.

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Reading Time2 min

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Assignment Overview

Workbook Setup and File Saving

Data Updates and Employee Records

Tax Tables and Tax Calculations

Formatting, Borders, and Page Setup

Computer Applications for Business – Week 6 Assignment MS Excel: Update Payroll Using Microsoft Excel online or installed version of Microsoft Excel complete the following assignment NOTE: To complete the assignment you will need to start with this file, Lab 3-2 PHM Reliable Catering Weekly Payroll Report Problem: PHM Reliable Catering is a company that provides catering services to both small and large businesses. You have been asked to update the weekly payroll report to reflect changes in personnel, to update certain mandatory deductions, and to add overtime computations. The final worksheet is shown in Figure 3–87. 1. Open the workbook, Lab 3-2 PHM Reliable Catering Weekly Payroll Report. 2. Save the file as CS155Week6LastnameFirstname. Ensure that you use your Lastname and Firstname in filename. 3. Delete rows 12 through 14 to remove the statistics below the Totals row. 4. Delete column B. Set column A width to 31.00 and columns B through K to 11.00. Select row 3 and set text to wrap in this row using the Wrap Text button (Home tab | Alignment group), and then set the row height to best fit. 5. Delete the record for the employee Evans, Timothy. Add two blank lines directly above the row for Mi, Emily, and add the information for the two new employees listed in Table 3–11. 6. Replace one of employee’s names with your name. . 7. If necessary, use the fill handle in cell E6 to copy the gross pay formula to the rows of the two new employees. 8. Add the Tax Rates information shown in Figure 3–87 in cells A15:B20 to your worksheet. 9. Change the font size in cell A1 to 28-point. Change the font size in cell A2 to 18-point. Change the font in cell A15 to 18-point italic and underlined. Change the row height for rows 1, 2, and 15 to best fit. 10. Insert three columns to the right of the Gross Pay column. Add the column titles Taxable Income, Social Security, and Medicare in cells F3:H3 . Center the contents of cells B3:K3 . Calculate the Social Security and Medicare taxes in columns G and H by multiplying the tax rates in the Tax Rates table by the Gross Pay. 11. Federal tax calculations must take into account two tiers of income tax, which are applied to the taxable income. Calculate the taxable income, which is the Gross Pay—(number of withholding allowances * $90) . 12. Calculate the federal tax withheld. If an employee has a taxable income of greater than or equal to $689, then the federal tax withheld equals $110.85 plus the federal tax rate found in cell B19 multiplied by the taxable income in excess of $689. If an employee’staxable income is $689 or less, the federal tax withheld equals the taxable income multiplied by the federal tax rate found in cell B18 . Use the IF function to calculate the federal tax in Column I. 13. State tax is calculated as a percentage of federal tax. Use the tax rate in the Tax Ratestable to calculate state tax in column J. 14. Calculate Net Pay in column K, as Gross Pay—Social Security, Medicare, Federal Tax, and State Tax. 15. Use the background color of your choice for the ranges A1:K2 and A15:B20 . 16. Center the range B4:B11 . Apply the currency style with two decimal places, no dollar signs, and negative numbers in black and parentheses to the range C4:C11 and E4:K12 . 17. Apply a Thick Bottom Border to the range A3:K3 . Apply a Thick Outside Border to the range A15:B20 . 18. Change the sheet tab name to Weekly Payroll and the tab color to match the color used as background color in cell A1 . 19. Preview the worksheet. In page setup fit the worksheet to one page in landscape orientation. Save file after completing and submit work by attaching file to week 6 assignment submission area. | Grading Criteria Assignment | Maximum Points | | --- | --- | | Deleted rows 12-14 and Delete column B
Deleted record. Two employees added, one students name and copied gross pay over to new entries | 21 | | Column Widths: A-31 pts and co

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Which Excel formatting and layout steps must be applied before submission?

Set font sizes and styles for specified cells, adjust column widths and row heights, apply background colors, center specific ranges, apply currency formatting rules, add thick borders to defined ranges, rename the sheet tab to Weekly Payroll, and fit the worksheet to one landscape page in page setup.

Sep 22, 2026

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