BIS/221 University of Phoenix assignment

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.

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