Bar Code

Local Literature

Aquilan (2004) made a comparable thesis on the automation of time attendance that records the time in and time out of every employee using barcode system. It tends to eliminate the manual recording system of time and attendance and also include salary computation of each employee based on the time and attendance reports. Ramon Faloran (2005) wrote in the article “The Computer Edge of the New Employment and Opportunities “in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He stated that computer gives you a different feeling about what is happening in the company. Business will be highly competitive and innovative because the computer provides instants information. Study by Cantoma (2004) in her thesis entitled “Computer Library System for St. James Academy” stated that, in manual system in retrieving, maintaining security and piling records take place because of the years gone by. Furthermore, these files were only kept in envelopes and folders in wooden rocks. There are also instances when the right information is given to a wrong person, which affect quality of service.

Foreign Literature:

According to Primer (2005), for many businesses automating the collecting of employee attendance data when employees begin their shifts is still a manual process. Even business that has automated or computerized processes such asscheduling, inventory, purchasing, general ledger and payroll processing still usemanual methods such as time cards or attendance sheets to collect time andattendance data. NOVAtime (2007), the system that will give management the power to notonly utilize the tools we have available to us today, but will continue to grow andevolve, giving it the capability to incorporate and utilize the tools the newmillennium promises to bring us. NOVAtime has brought a system designed for growth while maintaining themaximum in flexibility. Where the sophistication lies within the programmedmechanism of the system, allowing for a quick and simple...