 in this presentation we will discuss the comprehensive problem goals of the comprehensive problem and components of the comprehensive problem we will be working the payroll problem in excel this is going to be the excel worksheet we're going to have a few tabs that we will be jumping back and forth through not too much jumping we're going to try to put as much on an individual spreadsheet as possible but there will be three tabs to the problem we've got the register and record we got the gl tab and we've got the w2 and w3 these three here are going to be the answer tab so we're going to go through just the answers seeing this information all filled out and then these three tabs are going to be where we can work the problem so when we work the problem we're going to be in these three tabs and we can always refer back to the answer key to see what has been input and how it's being input the goal of this problem is to be comprehensive enough so that we can see multiple time periods