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

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Week 3 video: "Excel 2016 Essential Training."

Read the following business scenario:

Your company has asked you to create a spreadsheet to analyze the resulting data. The data will need to 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. This chart should display the TOTAL sales (i.e., the sales for the complete year), per region. These "Total Sales" must include the fourth quarter as well, which you forecast as indicated above.

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

Check the attached "FINISHED SAMPLE" for design ideas.

Please DO NOT --I repeat, do not-- use Excel templates for this assignment.

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.

Materials

Learn: Excel 2016 Essential Training

Sales Analysis FINISHED SAMPLE