Downtown Office Supply

Downtown Office supply is a small family owned store in a small suburb. In order to maintain and grow the business the owners want to do some analysis to see how their sales are doing. Management wants to see how the company did last year and make some decisions about what products to keep along with staffing for busy times of the year.

Instructions: In the excle spreadheet provided, complete the tasks below. Upon completion you will submit a single, completed, Excel workbook.

10 points each

1. Setup the spreadsheet with proper formatting and formulas so it can be presented to management.
   1. Change the tab called Quarterly to Q1 - Quarterly and move the tab to the first position.
   2. Add a column to calculate the total for each product. Use the SUM function.
   3. Add rows to calculate the Total, Average and Median sales for each quarter. Use the SUM, AVERAGE, and MEDIAN functions.
   4. Format the title at the top so it stands out. Add distinct formatting to the column and row headings. Format the data in the cells to show currency.
   5. Format the total sales column to have a green background.
   6. Create a bar chart showing for each product (a) the total sales for the year and (b) the proportion of the total contributed by each quarters sales. This should be shown in one. You should have 1 bar for each product. Add a title to your chart.

2. Management would like to decide whether they should discontinue any products. Any product which has had 50% less sales over the previous year should be discontinued. Are there any products that they should discontinued? List the product(s) and your recommendation in the worksheet. Which 3 products had the highest increase in sales?
   1. Change the tab called 2017 vs 2018 to Q2 2017 vs. 2018 and move the tab to the second position.
   2. Add a new column to calculate the percentage change from 2017 to 2018. Percentage change is computed using the following formula: (current year saleslast year sales) / (last year sales). Represent the numbers as percentages.
   3. Calculate the total, average, and standard deviation for each year.
   4. Format the title at the top so it stands out. Add distinct formatting to the column and row headings. Format the data in the cells to show currency.
   5. Use conditional formatting to highlight the Percent Change cells that have a negative percent change in red.
   6. Use conditional formatting to highlight the top 3 cells that had the highest increase in green.
   7. Create a pie chart showing the contribution of each product to 2018 total sales. Make sure the percentages are displayed on the chart and the product names are displayed in the legend. Add a title to the chart.