• You are doing research for a medium-sized widget manufacturing company (approximately 200 employees) to do a complete evaluation of their computer needs and make recommendations to them about an information system to support their business. Currently several of their support departments are using manual processes, and they wish to automate their accounting and human resources business processes. They also want to harness the power of the Internet in their business.

For this laboratory assignment, you will create an Excel spreadsheet that clearly displays the research you have done to determine the cost of the various components of the new information system you are recommending to the company executives. Your spreadsheet should calculate the total cost of the information system and display the costs of the individual components in a graph. This spreadsheet will be presented as a part of your final project. You will need to expand the spreadsheet you submit as a part of the final project to include any comments from your mentor on this lab assignment as well as any additional information you have included in your final project report.

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step 1 First you need to research the cost of the various components of the information system This ... View the full answer