BIS202 Practical Exercises Year 2018/2019 – Semester 2

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EXERCISE 1

TAX CALCULATION

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT A startup cosmetic enterprise TopCosmetic promotes and sells 8 types of high-quality cosmetic items which are internally referenced by 100, 101, …, respectively. The respective quantity and the unit price of each item are given by the below table. Each item is, however, subject to taxes whose amount is dependent on the unit price of the item.

To reduce the number errors, anomalies and difficulties related to the manual data manipulation, the manager of TopCosmetic instructs the IT staff to develop a more convenient computerized data management way based on Microsoft Excel. The later is an electronic spreadsheet software that will be used for storing, organizing and manipulating the products and sales details and for inventory purposes. This would build the foundation stone of a database application the enterprise is envisaging in the future with the increasing business turnover.

2. REQUIREMENTS The product details and the resulted tax information required by the enterprise manager are depicted by the below table. Thus, as DP staff you should develop an Excel worksheet that should reflect the same data, information and format as demanded by the manager and reported by the following table.

BIS202 Practical Exercises Year 2018/2019 – Semester 2

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3. MAIN OBJECTIVES The present assignment allows students learning and understanding the different items and topics using Excel, including:

Formatting Worksheets AutoFill, Numeric formats, previewing worksheets Working with formulas and functions: IF, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX

4. ACTIVITIES a. Open a new workbook and save the file with the name “Exercise 1”. b. Enter the labels and values in the exact cells locations as desired. c. Use AutoFill for item numbers. d. Set the columns width and rows height appropriately. e. Set labels alignment appropriately. f. Use warp text as desired. g. Apply borders, gridlines and shading as desired. h. Format money cells to include dollar sign with two decimal places. i. Format Date cells to Short Date format. j. Calculate the taxes as follows:

TAX (If ITEM PRICE is less than 100, TAX is 50, otherwise it should be 100). TOTAL PRICE BEFORE TAX =NO. OF ITEMS * ITEM PRICE. TOTAL PRICE AFTER TAX = TOTAL PRICE BEFORE TAX + TAX. RATE (If TOTAL PRICE AFTER TAX > 3500 then the rate is “HIGH”, otherwise it is

REASONABLE. k. In sheet 2 Find PRICE (Use external cell references).

Count of Items using ITEM No and Count of Items using ITEM DESCRIPTION Average of Taxes, Min Item PRICE and Max Item Count Items where Production Date is blank

l. Set the work sheet vertically and horizontally on the page. m. Create a header that includes your name in the left section, and your ID number in the right

section. Create the footer that includes the current Date in the center. n. Add the following workbook’s properties: Tags "product details, tax information",

Categories "TAX CALCULATION", Company "TopCosmetic" o. Save file and exit Excel.

5. NEED HELP? Read Excel tutorials: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2016/