Statement of the problem

The St. Nicholas Academy: Center of Catholic Education, Incorporation. has been in existing for many years.

It is the only Catholic academic institution in the town of macabebe and is supervised by the Archbishop of the City of San Fernando, Pampanga.Rev. Fr. Genaro Sazon founded the parochial school in 1947 and named it Auxilium Christianorum.

The RVM sisters were tasked to supervise the school. It was temporarily closed from 1954 it 1974. In 1975, the school was repened by Sor. Maria Encarnacion T.

Rodriguez of the handmaids of our Lady of the sacred heart (HOLSH) with a new name- Our lady of Fatima Catholic School. The school offered complete pre-elementary and elementary course and classes were housed in the school buildings beside the parish church.In 1995, the archdiocese of San Fernando effected a reshuffle in the pastoral assignments of the school administration took place. A young energetic priest and an equally-experienced school administrator in the person of Rev. Fr. Jose E.

David was assigned in the parish on June 29, 1995. Under his administration, Fr. David pursued the mission-vision to provide quality Catholic education. As part of the expansion program, the school started to offer courses in the secondary level effective school year 1996-1997.

With this welcome development, the name of the school as changed to Saint Nichols Academy.Finally, on April 12, 1999, Government Recognition No. S-004, S, 1999 for the complete four-year Secondary Course was granted to the school. Presently, the school is located within the parish church lot of Macabebe, Pampanga. The parish church is in front of the town’s municipal hall.

Statement of the Problems Time consuming process of payroll preparation The St. Nichols Academy still using the manual method of payroll process. A lot of jobs are assigned to the payroll maker and accounting clerk, with cause’s inconvenience to their services. In this method, it will need more time and manpower to complete the payroll of each employee. Laborious payroll processNobody could admit the inescapable fact that what makes the manual procedure take a long time to finish the task is due to the many steps and processes to undergo. There is the collection of data such as the individual manual calculation of payroll.

Individual data is transferred through sheets, encoding and double checking after calculating. All this process requires labor and effort to complete the task. Misposting and understating of employee’s dataThe logical process of manual procedure result to too much time consumption. It often times result in misposting and understating of each employees data of plenty of files that is hard to accommodate.

Objectives of the StudyThis study is intended to design and develop a Computerized Payroll System for St. Nichols academy. Specifically, this study aims: To minimize the effort of the payroll maker in processing the Payroll Slip and Payroll Form. To make an efficient and accurate computation of Payroll. To create a well-arranged database and to implement strong security of the system for data security.