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    Lindsey Sawyer asked for help analyzing sales and commissions data for recruiters at Raybridge Recruiting. The analysis included renaming a worksheet, formatting cells, adding formulas and sparklines to show sales trends, calculating percentages and dividends, using Goal Seek to determine executive placements needed, and inserting a chart comparing estimated July and December sales. Formatting was applied to labels and the chart layout was changed before saving the report for Lindsey.

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    Lindsey Sawyer asked for help analyzing sales and commissions data for recruiters at Raybridge Recruiting. The analysis included renaming a worksheet, formatting cells, adding formulas and sparklines to show sales trends, calculating percentages and dividends, using Goal Seek to determine executive placements needed, and inserting a chart comparing estimated July and December sales. Formatting was applied to labels and the chart layout was changed before saving the report for Lindsey.

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    Conner Crane: Submission #1 - Score Is: 93 Out of 100

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    Lindsey Sawyer asked for help analyzing sales and commissions data for recruiters at Raybridge Recruiting. The analysis included renaming a worksheet, formatting cells, adding formulas and sparklines to show sales trends, calculating percentages and dividends, using Goal Seek to determine executive placements needed, and inserting a chart comparing estimated July and December sales. Formatting was applied to labels and the chart layout was changed before saving the report for Lindsey.

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    Shelly Cashman Excel 2019 | Module 3: SAM Project 1a

    Conner Crane
    SUBMISSION #1 | SCORE IS: 93 OUT OF 100 GE ver. 15.0.0-rc0000

    1. Lindsey Sawyer is the director of recruiting and business development for Raybridge Recruiting in Washington, D.C. She has been 7/7
    analyzing sales and commissions for recruiters in an Excel workbook and has asked you to help her complete the analysis.

    Go to the Sales worksheet. Rename the Sales worksheet as Sales and Dividends, which is a more accurate name.

    Change the name of a worksheet.


    2. Unfreeze column A so it is not displayed when you scroll horizontally. 7/7
    Unfreeze a column.
    3. Middle-align the contents of the merged cell A1 to improve the appearance of the worksheet title. 7/7
    Align cell content vertically.
    4. In cell B3, insert a formula that uses the NOW function to display today's date. 7/7
    Create a formula using a function.
    5. Fill the range C6:G10 with the formatting from the range B6:B10 to use a consistent number format for the sales data. 7/7

    Copy and paste formatting.


    6. Lindsey wants to show the sales trend for each position and month from January to June. Provide this information as follows: 7/7
    a. In cell H6, insert a Line sparkline based on the data in the range B6:G6.
    b. Use the Fill Handle to fill the range H7:H10 without formatting based on the contents of cell H6.
    c. Change the color of the sparklines in the range H6:H10 to Dark Purple, Text 2 (4th column, 1st row of the Theme Colors
    palette) to emphasize them.
    d. Show a High Point and a Low Point in the sparklines to make those values easy to identify.

    Add sparklines to a cell.


    Add sparklines to a range.
    Set the color of sparklines.
    Format sparklines.
    Format sparklines.
    7. Copy the formula in cell I6 and paste it in the range I7:I10, pasting only the formula and number formatting, to include sales totals. 7/7

    Copy a formula into a range.


    8. Lindsey wants to determine how the sales of each month contributed to the total sales. Calculate this information for her as follows: 7/7
    a. In cell B13, insert a formula without using a function that divides the total sales for January (cell B10) by the total sales to date
    (cell I10).
    b. Use an absolute reference to cell I10 in the formula.
    c. Use the Fill Handle to fill the range C13:G13 with the formula in cell B13.

    Create a formula.
    Use absolute reference in a formula.
    Copy a formula into a range.
    9. Lindsey also needs to calculate the dividends earned each month. If the company earns $200,000 or more in a month, the dividend 7/7
    is 35% of the sales. If the company earns less than $200,000 in a month, the dividend is 27% of the sales. Calculate the dividends
    as follows:
    a. In cell B17, enter a formula that uses the IF function and tests whether the total sales for January (cell B10) is greater than or
    equal to 200000.
    b. If the condition is true, multiply the total sales for January (cell B10) by 0.35 to calculate a dividend of 35%.
    c. If the condition is false, multiply the total sales for January (cell B10) by 0.27 to calculate a dividend of 27%.
    d. Use the Fill Handle to fill the range C17:G17 with the formula in cell B17 to calculate the dividends for February through June.

    Create a formula using a function.


    Copy a formula into a range.
    10. Change the sparklines in the range H17:H18 as follows to use a more meaningful format: 0/7
    a. Change the Column sparklines to Line sparklines.
    b. Apply the sparkline style Dark Gray, Sparkline Style Dark #3 (3rd column, 5th row of the Sparkline Styles palette) to make
    the sparklines easier to see.

    Change sparklines in a range.


    In the Sales and Dividends worksheet, the sparklines in cell H17 should chart the data in the range B17:G17.

    Format sparklines.
    In the Sales and Dividends worksheet, the sparklines in cell H17 should chart the data in the range B17:G17.

    11. Lindsey would like to increase the average number of placements per month. Because executive placements are the most profitable, 7/7
    Lindsey wants to know how many executive placements she needs to reach the goal of 30 placements per month.

    Use Goal Seek to set the average number of placements for all positions (cell I27) to the value of 30 by changing the average
    number of executive placements (cell I23).

    Use Goal Seek.


    12. Format the text in cell J22 to clarify what it refers to as follows: 7/7
    a. Merge and center the range J22:J27.
    b. Rotate the text down to -90 degrees in the merged cell so that the text reads from top to bottom.
    c. Change the width of column J to 6.00.

    Merge and center a range.


    Change the orientation of cell content.
    Change the column width.
    13. Delete row 35, which contains information Lindsey does not need anymore. 8/8
    Delete a row.
    Delete a row.
    14. Lindsey also wants to compare the estimated sales of July and December. Insert a chart that provides this information as follows: 8/8
    a. Create a Clustered Column chart based on the nonadjacent ranges A22:B26 and G22:G26.
    b. Enter Estimated Sales: July and December as the chart title.
    c. Resize and reposition the chart so its upper-left corner is in cell A35 and its lower-right corner is in cell E49.
    d. Change the chart layout to Layout 2 to display the data values above the bars instead of including a vertical axis.

    Insert a chart.
    Insert a chart title.
    Resize and reposition a chart.
    Change the layout of a chart.
    Shelly Cashman Excel 2019 | Module 3: SAM Project 1a

    Raybridge Recruiting
    CREATE A SALES REPORT

    Author: Conner Crane

    Note: Do not edit this sheet. If your name does not appear in cell B6, please download a new copy of the file from the SAM
    website.
    e from the SAM
    Raybridge Recruiting
    Sales Report
    Last updated: 4/5/2023
    Monthly Sales
    Position Type January February March April
    Executives $ 98,348.50 $ 89,532.90 $ 81,522.67 $ 75,279.26
    Managers $ 74,474.35 $ 65,742.12 $ 56,330.69 $ 52,540.58
    Professionals $ 31,330.21 $ 29,667.74 $ 28,884.48 $ 27,274.09
    Interim $ 18,307.52 $ 15,002.26 $ 15,721.81 $ 12,382.10
    Total $ 222,460.58 $ 199,945.02 $ 182,459.65 $ 167,476.03

    Percentage per Month


    Share 18% 17% 15% 14%

    Commissions Paid
    Monthly Commission January February March April
    Amount $ 77,861.20 $ 53,985.16 $ 49,264.10 $ 45,218.53
    Net Amount $ 48,273.95 $ 33,470.80 $ 30,543.74 $ 28,035.49
    Net Commission % (After
    Deductions) 62%

    Estimated Sales
    Position Type July August September October
    Executives $ 98,000 $ 89,000 $ 90,000 $ 92,000
    Managers $ 78,500 $ 65,000 $ 70,000 $ 72,000
    Professionals $ 31,000 $ 29,000 $ 30,000 $ 31,000
    Interim $ 22,000 $ 15,000 $ 16,000 $ 18,000
    Total $ 229,500 $ 198,000 $ 206,000 $ 213,000

    Estimated Commissions
    Monthly Commission July August September October
    Amount $ 8,032.50 $ 5,346.00 $ 7,210.00 $ 7,455.00
    Net Amount $ 4,980.15 $ 3,314.52 $ 4,470.20 $ 4,622.10
    Net Commission % (After
    Deductions) 62%

    Estimated Sales: July and December


    July December

    $98,000
    $91,500
    $78,500
    $71,000

    $31,000
    $98,000
    $91,500
    $78,500
    $71,000

    $31,000 $30,000
    $22,000 $19,000

    Executives Managers Professionals Interim


    Recruiting
    eport

    Sales
    May June Trend Total
    $ 91,610.24 $ 97,352.68 $ 533,646.25
    $ 68,080.67 $ 78,107.76 $ 395,276.17
    $ 27,281.96 $ 30,099.43 $ 174,537.91
    $ 20,009.22 $ 21,272.37 $ 102,695.28
    $ 206,982.09 $ 226,832.24 $ 1,206,155.61

    17% 19%

    ns Paid
    May June Trend Total
    $ 72,443.73 $ 79,391.28 $ 378,164.01
    $ 44,915.11 $ 49,222.60 $ 234,461.68

    d Sales
    November December Total Avg. Placements
    Estimates only

    $ 94,000 $ 91,500 $ 554,500 35


    $ 74,000 $ 71,000 $ 430,500 43
    $ 33,000 $ 30,000 $ 184,000 20
    $ 19,500 $ 19,000 $ 109,500 22
    $ 220,500 $ 211,500 $ 1,278,500 30

    mmissions
    November December Trend Total
    $ 7,717.50 $ 7,402.50 $ 43,163.50
    $ 4,784.85 $ 4,589.55 $ 26,761.37

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