Fire Stop Ltd fire hoses which are exported to fifteen countries. The company has three

locations, and one specific location has twenty$-$eight $(28)$ employees who work in the production

department, and two $(2)$ employees in the accounting department, the manager, Mr$.$ White and

the accounting assistant, Miss Jones. Miss Jones deals with all items relating to the financial

recordkeeping of the business, while Mr$.$ White deals with the managerial aspects of the

department and provides oversight to Miss Jones. Among Miss Jones$$s many duties, she

prepares all the paperwork for new hires, collects the punch cards from the employees at the end

of each pay period and completes and signs the paycheques.

When a new employee is hired, Mr$.$ White, the accounting manager sends the individual to Miss

Jones to complete the appropriate paperwork for payroll. Miss Jones is responsible for properly

completing the paperwork regarding the employee$$s SIN, gross pay, and other details.

Miss Jones sometimes must track down employees to get their timecards so she can pay them.

Employees manually fill out the timecards and sometimes take them home in their uniforms.

The accounting manager does not review the paycheques that Miss Jones writes. He is often too

busy dealing with the managerial accounting issues related to production to have time to do

much of the paperwork that Miss Jones presents to him. Since Miss Jones is allowed to sign

cheques, she prepares the cheques and hands them out to the employees.

Miss Jones prepares the paycheques manually and is currently using the $2022$ payroll tables to

calculate income tax, CPP and EI deductions. The $2023$ year has just started, and Miss Jones is

unaware that the rates for income tax, CPP and EI change each year. She is still using the $2022$

payroll tables for $2023$ paycheques.

Required

You are required to prepare a report to Mr$.$ Johnathon Williams, The Chief Executive Officer of

Fire Stop Ltd$,$ highlighting any issues in the operation of the payroll department of this specific

location. Your case report must be in the format on page $3.$ Case Format

$$ Title Section $(1$ marks$)$

o Name of report, team members, and date

$$ Executive Summary $(2$ marks$)$

o Explain what you will examine in the case.

$$ Findings $(3$ marks$)$

o Provide background information and the most relevant facts. Isolate the issues.

$$ Case Evaluation $(10$ marks$)$

o Isolate the sections of the study you want to focus on$.$ In it$,$ explain why

something is working or is not working.

$$ Proposed Solutions $(5$ marks$)$

o Offer realistic ways to solve what isn$$t working or how to improve its current

condition.

$$ Recommendations $(3$ marks$)$

o Talk about the strategy that you should choose. Explain why this choice is the

most appropriate.

$$ Implementation $(5$ marks$)$

o Explain how to put the strategy into action. Be sure to set clear goals, determine

roles and responsibilities, how the plan is to be monitored and what success looks