COMPETITIVE EVENTS--Desktop Application Programming
2008-09 Topic

Desktop Application Programming

Certain types of accounting processes require that each record in the file be processed.  Desktop Application Programming focuses on these procedural style processing systems.  This event tests the programmer's skill in designing a useful, efficient, and effective program in the area described.  At the state level, students will complete a program to be judged prior to the state conference based on the posted topic, and the top 10 finalists will be scheduled for an oral presentation.

Restrictions: None
Region Leadership Conference Eligibility: Not a regional event
State Leadership Conference Eligibility: A maximum of two projects must be submitted to PA FBLA Executive Director by the published deadline. Top 10 individuals will participate in oral presentation of project at the SLC.

2008-2009 Topic:
You have been hired by the national office of Future Business Leaders of America – Phi Beta Lambda.
 

You will design a program to keep the data current allowing the addition and change of records. Each record in the master file contains the members’ number, name, school, year joined, a code for active/non-active, and amount owed.
 

You will design a report that will produce a list of members from the master file that has the member number, member name, year joined, and amount owed. Include only the members owing a balance. The report footer should include the total number of non-active members, the total number of active members, total of members owing, and the total amount owed. Print page headings and column headings at the top of each page, allowing for 45 detail lines per page and at the end of the report, the footer information as described below.