Question: Topic & ContentThis is the fun part! Within appropriate limits ( nothing derogatory or of a sensitive nature ) , you may choose any topic.

Topic & ContentThis is the fun part! Within appropriate limits (nothing derogatory or of a sensitive nature), you may choose any topic. The only requirement is that the chosen subject matter provides you with numerical and also financial data where the potential to borrow or loan money is involved. FYI - credit cards loan you money and have interest rates! You need a topic where you could potentially have a situation where money is borrowed or loaned, even if the data doesn't exist yet in the real world. To explain, some of (or all of) the data can be fictitious, as you will be required in the latter part of the case to create a loan amount with an interest rate and a loan period. In terms of topic choice, remember that this is not an essay. You will not have to write or create sentence structure, grammar, etc. What you need is data! So, be it a daily spending routine, workout regiment & diet intake (health food is expensive), fantasy sports league with money involved, a business you run or that involves you, utility costs, grocery expenses, trip planning, mileage and gas consumption or other driving related themes, etc., you should be able to come up enough numbers to apply the skills as required in the list below. Any topic that can provide the level of data that will enable you to complete this project is acceptable, and choosing a topic and integrating your own data into Excel is your first step in this project. This is not something your professor can do for you. Your knowledge going into Week 13 of this course should be more than enough to facilitate a variety of information from your life being organized into an Excel Workbook. You may use any of the ideas provided or come up with your own, as long as the topic can generate enough data to accomplish the following:A minimum of 8 categories of data that would fill an Excel table. Here are some examples, but again, you are encouraged to come up with your own ideas:MONTHLY LIVING EXPENSES: a student could easily generate up to 10 categories of data, with some obvious choices being groceries, vehicle & gasoline or transit expenses, rent, home internet, cell, electricity, natural gas, water, entertainment, etc. WORKOUT ROUTINE: grouping your workouts into different regions of the body and the types of food you may consume at different times of day when you are working out, you could easily generate a plethora of workouts, with at least 10 separate routines. This is a good one to run with...no pun intended, and for the money portion, you could tie into billing for meal supplements.With the first column in the table identifying the data series, you should be able to generate at least 8 columns of data related to these series. Here are some examples:I.E. workout 1, workout 2, workout 3...I.E. School Year Expenses: September, October, November...I.E. Game 1, Game 2, Game 3...I.E. Order #, Cost, Tax, Balance Due, Interest Rate...Refer to Weeks 8 and 11 for examples or see below (please note that this VISUAL EXAMPLE BELOW does not show everything that is required on this worksheet, i.e., steps 5 and 6 as detailed in the instructions in the lower portion of this page):Again, this is just an example! Get creative and come up with your own data. Other ideas for data might include a private student loan that is interest bearing, money lent to you to start a business, money lent to you as a sponsorship for an artistic endeavor, a car loan, etc. Bottom line, you need some numbers that will enable you to complete financial functions, and these numbers (in the yellow highlighted cells) can be completely independent of the data in the table if they have to be. The instructions below will explain what you need. Please note that the above example does not include or show many of the requirements in the file, but is simply meant to show an example of a table that would be acceptable for this project. This next part is the part that gets a little tricky, and this is where you are encouraged to be as creative as your heart desires! Even if money doesn't play a large role in the topic that you have chosen, you need to conceptualize and create a scenario in which it could cost you money as a result of having to make partial monthly payments due to the borrowing this money, or, it could be a similar scenario where you have loaned money to someone. Most providers of any type of service or product have late fees and then interest rates against the money you owe. Even with the workout routine example, you could imagine a scenario where you find yourself involved with an expensive meal supplement program that has resulted in an ongoing unpaid balance on your credit card. Case in point, you have to come up with a scenario that involves interest being paid (or collected), thereby allowing you make use of certain financial functions taught in Week 12. A large part of this the project is demonstrating to your professor not only that you know how to use Excel, but also that you know when and why to use Excel! As found in the list of steps below, you will be required to demonstrate the effective use of several financial functions from Week 12 along several other Excel skills that you learned this semester. While professors will still be holding a lab session in Week 13(no lecture hour, but the lab session will still occur for extra help) to provide assistance with the project, professors will not be helping students to come up with scenarios in which some of these functions may be used as this level of assistance would simply defeat the purpose of the project. Again, if you have to make-up the data, this is fine. Remember that you are now an advanced Excel user! If you can come up with one month, one week, one set up data (i.e., one column), you could simply use excel to work the math to provide different variations of that data across more columns, with a few other columns that may help you to sort the data in different ways. Required Steps / Out of 100 Possible Points (might be helpful to copy and print this list)5 Points - File Naming: Create a standard Excel file named as follows - firstname_lastname_customproject.xlsx. Your own first and last name would replace firstname and lastname in the file name.4 Points - Worksheet Naming & Tab Formatting: Provide a one or two word name for your first worksheet that is related to its content. Change the worksheet tab color to any color of your choosing that is not the default color.12 Points - Creation of an Excel Table: Starting in cell A2, generate a table of data on the first worksheet with at least 8 column headings and at least 10 rows of data. Format as an excel table using a style of your choosing. Do not leave the default style (4 Points)Name the table appropriately (2 Points)Using the Table Total Row tool, have at least one column totaled, averaged, etc. (3 Points)Have the table sorted with a sort within a sort just like step 2 in our Week 8 case (a sort within a sort [must use sort from Data tab], not just a single sort)(3 Points)6 Points - Inputting Data + Merge and Center + Formatting:Input your full name into cell A1 followed by a dash and after the dash, provide a 2 to 4 word description of the data in the table (2 Points)Merge and center this text to be centered over the table created in Step 3(2 Points)Choose a format that uses colors from the theme of your table that affects the font or the fill color, or both (2 points)3 Points - Date Style Function: In the first row, in whatever column that is the first column after merged and center table title/your table ends, insert a today function to the right of your table. This could be G1, K1, M1, etc. - that depends on how many columns wide your table is.6 Points - Link to Web Page: Also in row 1, in the cell immediately to the right of the cell in which you just input the TODAY function, insert a hyperlink to any website that has relevance to your content.Provide a working link (2 Points)Change the text to display (link text) to something other than the web address, words that better describe the destination (2 Points)Add screen tip text (hover text) that is not the same as the link text (2 points)5 Points - Number Formatting: Format any and all financial data (of which you must have some) with Accounting format with 2 decimal places and any standard numerical data (numbers but not financial) using the number format with 0 decimals. 5 Points - Conditional Formatting: Use Conditional Formatting to format top or bottom percentage, at a level and format of your choosing, somewhere within your table.5 Points - Image Insertion: Use an image or logo of your choosing (don't worry about copyright as these projects will never be published) and insert it into the first worksheet in an appropriate location but kept small. Should not take up more than 15 to 20 cells at most and likely just be positioned to the right side of your table, or again, in a position that you feel is appropriate.12 Points - Chart Insertion: Based on a portion of or all of the data in your table (you choose), create and insert an Excel chart (you choose the chart type) as its own worksheet (not as an "object in" a sheet): This worksheet can be made to be the second worksheet in your workbook, again, named appropriately with a tab color of your choosing (2 points)Choose a chart type that is appropriate and choose a chart style. Do not leave the default style (3 points)Add data labels of your choosing on the data series (3 points)Give the chart an appropriate title centered above the chart (2 points) Change the colors on the chart to a monochromatic color pattern of your choosing (2 points)2 Points - Adding a Worksheet: Add a 3rd worksheet at the end after the chart worksheet you just created, and name this 3rd worksheet Financial. The tab color for this worksheet should maintain the default colors.14 Points - PMT Function with 3D Referencing:Go back to the data you created on the first worksheet. Underneath the table, but only skipping 1 row, create a set of data on the first worksheet (see visual example above where the project is being explained) that provides a realistic monthly debt load that you are carrying (or is paid to you, depends on the nature of your data) with an interest rate and a total number of months in the loan period. You should have 3 pieces of data formatted as you see fit in 3 separate cells with information in the cells to the left identifying what the data is (again, see the yellow highlighted cells in the visual example above). You will not be marked on formatting for this step and the data that you need is as follows, and you can refer to Step 4 in the Week 12 Case to see an example of the type of data that goes into a payment function. Bear in mind however, the loan amount can be smaller (car loan, personal loan, interest bearing money you have loaned to someone to invest in their app project, etc.). It could be anywhere from $5,000.00 to $500,000.00 to $5,000,000.00.(2 points)The money owed (a loan amount)A monthly interest rate or an annual rate divided by 12(rate)A number of months this loan will be permitted to remain outstanding (number of payment periods, 12 months, 180 months, 60 months, etc.)Now, go to the top of the new worksheet you created in Step 11 and using 3D referencing, use a formula without a function that brings this data from the first worksheet into the top of the new worksheet, referencing each of the 3 pieces of data; the loan amount, the interest rate, and the number of monthly periods in the loan; thereby bringing this data into the top of the new worksheet into 3 separate cells using 3D referencing. (3 points)Create a PMT function referencing the data that is now present in the new worksheet that will calculate the monthly payment based on the chosen interest rate and number of periods in the loan. Use cell references to the cells in which the data was just placed in the new worksheet sheet - do not type in the raw data! (9 points)8 Points - PV Function: You now want to know what the total loan will cost you, with interest, if you ask for an extra 24 months. To do this, you will use the PV function. Using the monthly payment calculated in Step 12(HINT: the answer to step 12 will be required in the PV function, for help you may refer to Step 11 in the Week 12 Case) and any other required inputs that were added to this worksheet in Step 12(rate and number of months+24)), calculate the present value of the loan for the length of the term that you suggested (your total payment periods or number of months)+ an additional 24 months, all at the same intertest rate.8 Points - FV Function: Now, looking at the present value of the loan with an extra 24 months included, you want to compare it to the future value of the loan at the length of term that you originally suggested (number of months only, without adding anything to that figure). To do this, you will use the FV function. Again, using the monthly payment calculated in Step 12 plus any of the other inputs required as generated at the beginning of Step 12(HINT: for extra help, refer to Step 12 in the Week 12 Case), calculate the future value of the loan at the end of the term. 5 Point Creative Round - Formatting Financial Worksheet: Format the final worksheet with any number of tools and formats, any way you see fit. Get creative!Save your file and submit the FOL Submissions Box!DUE DATE: Always refer to the FOL Calendar and / or FOL Submission Box for Exact Due Dates, but generally, unless other noted by your professor, this project will be due on Sunday evening at 11:59PM at the end of Week 13 of the course.

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