CASE STUDY
1. You just started as an assistant in to prepare a worksheet to help him contacti than
glasses. He has compiled With this data, along with your employer's additional needs,
design a worksheet to present the data in an casy to-understand format. Use the
conceptsand techniques presented in this project to create the worksheet.
2. You Are a teaching assistant for Professor Firewall. She is known around campus as
the gatekeeper of diplomas. because her courses are so rigorous. ProfessorFirewallhas
askedyoutotakeher grade ledger (Table 1-13), which shows her grade distributions for all
her spring clases, and separate them into categories hasedon the class and the grade.
She watits a worksheet and 3-D Column chart to make it easier to view the grades at a
glance. Use the concepts and techniques presented in this project to create the
worksheetand chart.
3." The Main Street Rib House restaurant is trying to decide whether it is feasible to open
another restaurant in a neighboring community.The ownerhas asked you to develop a
worksheet to taling all the revenur received in a week. The revenue by day is Monday,
$1,500.80; Tuesday, $1,220.09 Wednesday,$1,435.50;Thursday, $1,565.29;Friday,
$2,556.32; and Saturday, $3.102.12. On Sunday the restaurant is closed. Create a 3-D
Pie chart to illustrate revenue by day and total weekly revenue. Use the AutoCalculate
area to find the average daily sales.
4.The senior accountant at Great Expectations, a local cable company where you are a
student con sultant, has asked you to prepare a worksheet that can be used at the next
annual stockholders' meer ing. The worksheet is to compare the company's expenditures
last year to its anticipated expenditures this year. Last year, the company spent
$1.230,000 on staff salaries and benefits, $3,015,000 on equin ment, $2,550.000 on
programming, and $121.000 onbuilding andgrounds maintenance. This year the
company expects to spend $1,402.000 on staff salaries and benefits, $3,275,000 on
equipment. $2.525.000 on programming, and $143.000 on building and grounds
maintenance. Use the concepts and rochniques presented in this project to prepare the
worksheet. Include total expenditures for each category and for each year, and a column
chart illustrating yearlyexpenditures.Aftercompleting the worksheet, prepare a second
worksheet showing how this year's expenditures would be affected if the amount spent
on staff salaries and benefits waschanged to$1,504,000 (after hiringtwo new technicians)
and the amount spent on equipment was changed to $3,550,000 (after purchasing four
new utility trucksl.
5 .Each year, universities report an increase in the enrollment of undergraduate students
25 years or older, who often are referred to as non-traditional students. Visit your school's
Office of the Registrar to determine the number of male and number of female
undergraduate students under 25 years old, and the number of male and number of
female undergraduate students 25 years or older for each of the last five years, From the
data, create a worksheet and a 3-D Column chart to track the data obtained
6. Athletic footwear stores must track carefully the sales of their different shoe brands so
they can restock theirinventory promptly. Visitanathletic shoe storeand make alistof the
differentbrands of running shoes. Find out how many of each brand was sold over the last
three months. Using this information, create a worksheet showing the number of each
brand sold each month, the total number of each brand sold over three months, and the
total number of running shoes sold each month. Include a 3-D Column chart to illustrate
your data.
7.Drugstores often advertise that they have the lowest prices. Make a list of seven items
that can be purchased from any drugstore. Visit at least three drugstores and obtain a
price for each of the items listed. Make sure your prices are for similar items, Using this
data, together with the techniques presented in this project, create a worksheet showing
the price of each individual item in the drugstore and the total price for all seven items in
a particular drugstore. Include a 3-D Column chart to illustrate your data.
