Goal - Demonstrate your knowledge about information technology to build data sets, retrieve relevant business information that can be used to drive decision making, analyze and communicate this information.

Project Details - You are being considered for a large promotion at your firm. The company has requested you to present to them an idea of why you should be promoted. In essence, what can you bring to the table to provide value to the corporation? This is your time to shine to management. Demonstrate your knowledge of accounting, technology and ability to communicate (writing skills).

Requirements:

1. Build and/or transform a data set into a usable format for analysis in excel
2. Use excel to analyze the material using charts, tables and/or pivot tables
3. Must answer the four questions:
   1. Build Data Set - describe how you created the data set
   2. Data Extraction and Analysis - describe how you extracted the data
   3. Data Interpretation - describe what you interpreted from the data
   4. Suggested Business Recommendations - make suggestions based on the data
4. also a report (using Microsoft Word) explaining the information that is presented by your findings (your recommendation). Note, you are not explaining how you created your charts, tables and/or pivot tables. You must explain how your research solves a problem for management and will also add value to the company.