Annual profit table 1_Scenarios: Assume you manage a small

Annual Sales: $100,000 business and want to evaluate three potential

Annual Costs: $50,000 growth strategies: Aggressive, Moderate, and
Conservative. You have the following data:
Profit: $50,000

Scenarios
Aggressive: Increase sales by 30%
Moderate: Increase sales by 15%
Conservative: Increase sales by 5%
Tip! Do not forget name the cells accordingly:
B3: Annual Sales
B5: Annual profit
 Annual profit table 2_Scenarios: Assume you manage a small business and
Annual Sales: $100,000 want to evaluate three potential growth strategies:
Aggressive, Moderate, and Conservative. You have the
Annual Costs: $50,000 following data:
Profit: $50,000

Scenarios
Aggressive: Increase sales by 30%, reduce costs by 10%
Moderate: Increase sales by 15%, reduce costs by 5%
Conservative: Increase sales by 5%, reduce costs by 1%
 Course GPA 1_Goal_Seek: Suppose you are taking four
Course 1 3.0 courses this semester, and you want to achieve a
Course 2 3.7 target GPA of 3.5 (cell C8). You have already
received final grades for three of the courses and
Course 3 4.0 have one remaining (cell C6). You want to
Course 4 determine the required grade for the last course
to reach your target GPA. The four courses have
equal credit hours.
Final GPA: 2.68

Task. Calculate the Course 4 (C6) grade to achieve a target GPA

NO. Graded activity Weight % Grades: 2_Goal_Seek: Suppose you have a course with
1 Attendance 5% 80 various graded activities, and you want to achieve
2 Participation 10% 70 a target final grade of 61 (cell E10). You have
received grades for all activities except the final
3 Quizzes 15% 65 exam (cell E9). You want to determine the
4 Homework(s) 20% 80 required grade for the final exam to reach your
target final grade.
5 Midterm exam 20% 50
6 Final exam 30%
Final Grade: 46.75

Task. Calculate the required final exam grade to achieve a target final grade
 a course with
want to achieve
). You have
cept the final
mine the
o reach your
 Break-even analysis 🤑 3_Goal_Seek: Imagine you run a business
Selling Price $8 selling handmade candles. You want to
Variable costs $3 determine the minimum number of candles
you need to sell each month to break even.
Fixed costs $1,000
Number of Candles Find the minimum number of candles (C7) to
Profit -$1,000 sell to achieve a profit of $0 (break-even
point, C8).

Formula below is how you calculate Profit:

Profit 💰 = (Selling Price * Number of Candles) - (Fixed Costs + (Variable Costs * Number of Candles))
 Analyze the impact of different ice cream 🍨 prices and sales volumes on total revenue

Ice cream Sales 🍨 Data_Table: Suppose you are selling ice cream
Selling Price $2 and want to understand how different selling
Sales Volume 200 prices and sales volumes affect your total
revenue. You can create a data table to analyze
Total Revenue $400 various scenarios.

Prices Task_1: How much revenue will you generate

$1 (C10:C14) if you sell 200 ice cream cones at
$2 different prices each (B10:B14)?
$3 *WRITE Formula for Total Revenue =C4*C5 at cell C9.
$4
$5

Sales Volume Task_2: What is the total revenue if you sell

50 various quantity (B18:B22) ice cream cones at $2
100 each?
150 *WRITE Formula for Total Revenue =C4*C5 at cell
200 C17.
250

sales volumes 🍨 Task_3: How different selling prices

100 200 300 400 500 (B27:B31) and sales volumes (C26:G26
affect your total revenue (range
$2
selling prices

C27:G31)?
$3
$4 *WRITE Formula for Total Revenue
=C4*C5 at cell B26.
$5
$6
_3: How different selling prices
B31) and sales volumes (C26:G26)
your total revenue (range
G31)?

TE Formula for Total Revenue

C5 at cell B26.
 Resource Cost Variables
Hourly labor cost 30 Three Scenarios for the Produ
Materials cost 57 Scenario
Best Case
Worst Case
Product A Product B Product C Most Likely
Hours per unit 12 14 24
Materials per unit 6 9 14
Cost to produce $702 $933 $1,518
Sales price $795 $1,295 $2,195
Unit profit $93 $362 $677
Units produced 36 18 12
Total profit per product $3,348 $6,516 $8,124

Total Profit $17,988

Three Scenarios for the Production Model
Hourly Cost Materials Cost
30 57
38 62
34 59
 Mortgage Loan Worksheet

Input Cells Assume that you’re in the market for a new

Purchase Price: $322,002 home and you know that you can afford a
Down Payment: 20% $1,100 monthly mortgage payment. You also
know that a lender can issue a 30-­year fixed-­
Loan Term (Months): 360 rate mortgage loan for 3.10%, based on a 20%
Interest Rate (APR): 3.10% down payment. The question is, “What is the
maximum purchase price I can afford?” In
other words, what value in cell C4 (purchase
Result Cells price) causes the formula in cell C11 (monthly
Loan Amount: $257,601 payment) to result in $1,100?
Monthly Payment: $1,100
Total Payments: $396,000
Total Interest: $138,399
he market for a new
at you can afford a
age payment. You also
issue a 30-­year fixed-­
3.10%, based on a 20%
estion is, “What is the
ce I can afford?” In
e in cell C4 (purchase
la in cell C11 (monthly
1,100?
 Direct Mail Profit Model

Input Cells !After reading the provided file with the name
Number mailed: 275,000 "Week_10_1_What_If_Analysis_Reading"
Response rate: 2.50% follow the steps that are outlined there.

Parameters
Printing costs per unit: $0.15
Mailing costs per unit: $0.28
Responses: 6,875
Profit per response: $18.50
Gross profit: $127,188
Printing + mailing costs: $118,250
Net Profit $8,937

Response Rate
$8,937 1.50% 1.75% 2.00% 2.25% 2.50% 2.75% 3.00%
100,000
125,000
150,000
Number Mailed

175,000
200,000
225,000
250,000
275,000
300,000
325,000
ded file with the name
Analysis_Reading"
outlined there.

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