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• Group Members
• Christan Grant
• Scott Fagen
• Robert Jack
• Peter Kehagias

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• Goal

• To Implement a quick and easy tax calculator
  that will allow a user to create compile all the
  information they need to submit the 1040-EZ tax
  form.

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• Software Engineering

• Met with brief status and goal meetings
• Most of our meetings were to discuss goals,
  objectives
• We assigned duties and expected them to completed
  done by the meet date
• The last few weeks we had integration meetings

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• Requiements

• Requirement 1 - Splash Screen
• The first screen visible to the user will be a
  splash screen consisting of the name of the
  program and the group name. This information will
  be represented by an image file containging a
  logo graphic. The splash screen will
  automatically transition to the user login screen
  after 3 seconds.
• Requirement 2 - Login Screen
• The login screen will consist of a graphical user
  interface with text input fields for username and
  password. When a valid username and password
  combination has been entered, and the submit
  button is pressed, the login screen will
  dissapear and transition to the user input
  screen. In addition to the login submission,
  there will be a clear button to clear out user
  input, an exit button to exit the program at this
  point, and a user registration button, which will
  activiate the user registration form.
• Requirement 3 - Registration Screen
• The registration screen enables new users to
  create a username and password giving them access
  to the system. By registering in the system, the
  user will be able to login using the username and
  password they register with. The registration
  screen will also collect the user's first name,
  last name. and social security number, which will
  be stored in the system for later use. This
  screen has a button to submit the registration,
  as well as buttons to clear the form, exit the
  program, or cancle registration and return to the
  login screen.

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• Requiements

• Requirement 4 - Input Screen
• The input screen is a GUI that collects the users
  tax information for processing. The user's
  personal information such as first name, last
  name, and social security number are entered in
  the first part of this screen. The second section
  allows the user to input their wages, taxable
  interest, unemployment compenstation,
  dependencies, taxes withheld, earned income
  credit, and combat pay. This information will be
  stored upon submission and used to calculate the
  tax output, which is displayed on the output
  screen.
• Requirement 5 - Data Entry Validation
• All data inputed on the user input screen is
  validated to ensure the quality of the data and
  the correctness of the data types entered. First
  name, and last name are strings so any value is
  accepted. Social secuity number is only valid if
  it is a 9 character integer. The values for
  wages, taxable interest, unemployment
  compenstation, taxes withheld, earned income
  credit, and combat pay are all monetary values
  and only valid if entered as an integer or double
  value. If a invalid peice of data is entered and
  a submission is attempted, a dialog box alerts
  the user of error and insturcts them to fix it,
  cancling the submission in the process.
• Requirement 6 - Tax Calculator
• The tax calculator takes the data submitted by
  the input screen and calculates the user's taxes
  based on their income and deductions. The rules
  for calculating these values have been taken from
  the 1040ez tax form.

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• Requiements

• Requirement 7 - Storage
• The user input values along with the tax
  information calculated by the tax calculator are
  stored on the hard disk in an XML file. When the
  submit button on the input form is clicked, and
  the data entered is valid, the user is promted to
  save the information in an xml file. They must
  choose a file name and location to save the file
  to.
• Requirement 8 - Output Screen
• The output screen displays the user's tax
  information, calculated by the tax calculator, in
  new GUI screen that appears after the information
  is inputed, validated, calculated, stored, and
  submitted. There is an exit button that sends the
  user back to the login screen.
• Requirement 9 - Help Screen
• A help button located on the user input screen
  loads a new GUI screen with instructions on how
  to use the program.

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• Features

• One Click Calculation
• Easy to Use GUI
• User Information Storage

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• Easy to Use GUI

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• User Information Storage

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• Registration

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• One Click Calculation

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• Future Work
• Online Submission
• Encryption
• User Input Prediction
• Tips / Enhanced Help
• More Tax Forms
• PDF Output