BIS 221 Week 3 Apply: Sales Analysis

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BIS 221 Week 3 Apply: Sales Analysis
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BIS 221 Week 3 Apply: Sales Analysis

Purpose of Assignment

In this assignment, you apply Microsoft® Excel® formatting to a business example. You will use this skill to enter and analyze data using charts.

Assignment Steps

Resources:

  • Microsoft® Office Help and Training

  • Other tutorials available online

  • Week 3 video: “Excel 2016 Essential Training”

Read the following business scenario:

Your company has asked you to create a spreadsheet to analyze the following data. The data will be reviewed for top salespeople bonuses and commissions payments based on individual sales. Averages will be used to analyze month-over-month sales throughout the years.

Use the Sales Analysis Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet and apply formatting to accomplish the following:

  • Calculate total sales using the SUM function.

  • Calculate total sales for each quarter. (March, June, and September each represent a quarter.). A quarter is three months.

  • Calculate average sales for each quarter to help determine 4th-quarter potential sales.

  • Highlight the top salesperson in each quarter.

  • Generate a Microsoft® Excel® chart or graph that displays the total sales by region to identify the highest and lowest selling regions.

  • Insert a hyperlink to the company’s web page. (You can use any business web page for this example.)

  • Change your spreadsheet to a page or print layout view to be sure it fits well on a printed 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Used with permission from Microsoft.