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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
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.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.