console program assistance ? sales

SUNIL GUTTA

Write a program that calculates and prints the take-home pay for a commissioned sales employee. Perform a compile-time initialization and store the name of Nesbith Lang in a variable called employeeName. Nesbith earns 7% of her total sales as her commission. Her federal tax rate is 18%. She contributes 10% to a retirement program and 6% to Social Security. Her sales this month were $161,432. Produce a formatted report showing the amount for each of the computed items. Select appropriate constants. After you finish displaying Nesbitch Lang's data, change the values and rerun and application.

Output should look like this - before the values are changed: http://imgur.com/Z87aom4 ----------> open this link of image

My best wishes :)

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Vulpes12y ago
Accepted answer
That's strange. I thought that using the 'C' format would give the currency symbol for your current culture.

Anyway, I suggest that you 'pretend' you're in the US by changing the culture of the current thread.

I've also just noticed that the question asks you to use constants so I've dealt with that as well:

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Globalization;

class SalesEmployee
{
const decimal COMMISSION = 9m;
const decimal FEDERAL = 18m;
const decimal SOCIAL = 6m;
const decimal RETIREMENT = 10m;

static void Main()
{
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-us");
string employeeName = "Nesbith Lang";
decimal sales = 161432m;
PrintData(employeeName, sales);
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue . . .");
Console.ReadKey();
Console.WriteLine();
employeeName = "Sunil Gutta";
sales = 200100m;
PrintData(employeeName, sales);
Console.ReadKey();
}

static void PrintData(string name, decimal sales)
{
decimal totalDeductions = 0m;
Console.WriteLine(" Employee: {0}", name);
Console.WriteLine("Total Sales: {0, 11:C}", sales);
decimal grossPay = Math.Round(COMMISSION * sales/100m, 2);
Console.WriteLine("Gross Pay ({0} %): {1, 11:C}", COMMISSION, grossPay);
decimal federalTaxes = Math.Round(FEDERAL * grossPay/100m, 2);
totalDeductions += federalTaxes;
Console.WriteLine("Federal Taxes: {0, 11:C}", federalTaxes);
decimal socialSecurity = Math.Round(SOCIAL * grossPay/100m, 2);
totalDeductions += socialSecurity;
Console.WriteLine("Social Security Taxes: {0, 11:C}", socialSecurity);
decimal retirementConts = Math.Round(RETIREMENT * grossPay/100m, 2);
totalDeductions += retirementConts;
Console.WriteLine("Retirement Contribution: {0, 11:C}", retirementConts);
Console.WriteLine(" -----------");
Console.WriteLine("Total Deductions: {0, 11:C}", totalDeductions);
Console.WriteLine();
decimal takeHomePay = grossPay - totalDeductions;
Console.WriteLine("Take Home Pay: {0, 11:C}", takeHomePay);
}
}
Vulpes12y ago
String formatting in .NET is very powerful.

When you have something like {0, 11} it means right justify what's in the first placeholder within a field which is 11 characters wide.

If it had been {0, -11} it would have left justified it within an 11 character wide field.

If you have {0, 11:C} then what's in the first placeholder will (as well as being right justified) be formatted using the 'C' format ('C' stands for currency).

Thousand separators will be added where needed and the number will be formatted with 2 places to the right of the decimal point. It will also be preceded by the currency symbol for the current culture.
SUNIL GUTTA12y ago
Hi

Yes your code is very helpful

11:C ... you mentioned right in console.writeline .. actually whats the use of it ??

I only know i.e {0} {1} ... parameters in console.write so we can replace them accordingly with variables

ex :
int a =24;
string b=male;
console.writeline("my age is {0} and i am {}",a,b);

But you are combining things with something like this
Console.WriteLine("Total Sales: {0, 11:C}", sales);

Thank you .. ..
SUNIL GUTTA12y ago
I am getting "" ? """ symbol before values .... any ideas ??????
Vulpes12y ago
There's an inconsistency in the data here as it says in the question that Nesbith's commission is 7% but in the image it says that her gross pay is 9%. I've assumed the image figure is the correct one:

using System;

class SalesEmployee
{
static void Main()
{
string employeeName = "Nesbith Lang";
decimal sales = 161432m;
PrintData(employeeName, sales);
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue . . .");
Console.ReadKey();
Console.WriteLine();
employeeName = "Sunil Gutta";
sales = 200100m;
PrintData(employeeName, sales);
Console.ReadKey();
}

static void PrintData(string name, decimal sales)
{
decimal totalDeductions = 0m;
Console.WriteLine(" Employee: {0}", name);
Console.WriteLine("Total Sales: {0, 11:C}", sales);
decimal grossPay = Math.Round(0.09m * sales, 2);
Console.WriteLine("Gross Pay (9 %): {0, 11:C}", grossPay);
decimal federalTaxes = Math.Round(0.18m * grossPay, 2);
totalDeductions += federalTaxes;
Console.WriteLine("Federal Taxes: {0, 11:C}", federalTaxes);
decimal socialSecurity = Math.Round(0.06m * grossPay, 2);
totalDeductions += socialSecurity;
Console.WriteLine("Social Security Taxes: {0, 11:C}", socialSecurity);
decimal retirementConts = Math.Round(0.1m * grossPay, 2);
totalDeductions += retirementConts;
Console.WriteLine("Retirement Contribution: {0, 11:C}", retirementConts);
Console.WriteLine(" -----------");
Console.WriteLine("Total Deductions: {0, 11:C}", totalDeductions);
Console.WriteLine();
decimal takeHomePay = grossPay - totalDeductions;
Console.WriteLine("Take Home Pay: {0, 11:C}", takeHomePay);
}
}