This document provides instructions and questions for the BIS 155 Final Exam. It includes 5 multiple part questions related to using Excel to structure worksheets, analyze sales data, rearrange data, automate a weekly production report, and analyze a large data set to prepare a report. The questions cover skills like formatting worksheets, using formulas and functions, visually representing data, integrating Excel with other programs, and utilizing Excel tools to analyze a large data set.

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1. (TCO 1) You work for a local construction firm, “DeVry Engineering Group” and your
supervisor wants to test your knowledge and skills with Microsoft Excel and has
instructed you to develop a spreadsheet to calculate weekly payroll for “15” employees
with the following assumptions:
Note: This is a one part question.
• Each employee could have a standard hourly rate between $10.00 and $30.00 per
hour.
• Each employee qualifies to earn overtime at a rate of 1.5 of his or her hourly rate for
every hour greater than 40 hours.
• Each employee will have a standard 7.65% deduction for social security
• Each employee will have a standard 14.00% deduction for Federal Taxes
• Each employee will have a standard 5.33% deduction for State Taxes
Explain how you will structure and format your worksheet, including titles, column
headings, and formulas to calculate payroll variables for each employee to determine
“Net Pay” including and not limited to Total Hours, Gross Pay, Social Security Tax,
Federal Withholding Tax, and Sate Withholding Tax. In addition, determine how you
would extract overtime hours from a calculated value of “Total Hours” using a
conditional formula.
In addition, your supervisor will need this weekly payroll report on a weekly basis and
instructed you to keep the payroll history of all weeks within “1″ workbook but has

2. allowed you to decide if you would rather keep the payroll running on one worksheet or
by assigning a new worksheet for each week. Using your knowledge learned in this
class, descriptively explain whether you would keep all weekly payrolls in one
worksheet or assigned to new worksheets by week. Defend your reasoning’s on the
approach your take based on what you have learned in this course.
(Points : 40)
2. (TCO 3) You currently work for an automotive parts supply store. Your company is
growing and is considering expansion. The company currently has three locations
(North, South, and Central) in one state. Each parts supply store carries inventory in
four categories. You have been presented with the sales figures for the last three years
for each location and inventory category by store. Based on this information, you’re
tasked with analyzing current sales for each store by category and overall total sales by
store and category.
Note: This is a four part question.
1.) Explain your approach to setting up your worksheets and organizing the data.
2.) Explain how you will visually represent the data for the total sales of the individual
inventory categories for each location for the time periods shown.
3.) Explain how you will visually represent the consolidated data for the sales of all
stores and all inventory categories for all time periods in one chart or graph.
4.) Once you have finished the above tasks, you plan to send the Excel workbook to
your manager for evaluation. Your manger is presenting your findings to the Board of
Directors for justification for additional capital expenditures. The visually
representations need to be concise and clear by able to support the requested
expenditures. Explain how you would use the integration features of MS Office to
incorporate the Excel information into other presentation media.
(Points : 40)
3. (TCO 4) You are given a spreadsheet with daily sales numbers ordered by date from
January 1st to December 31st. You have been tasked with finding the average sales of
each month, then to reorder the months so they are listed in order from highest to
lowest average sales. Give a step-by-step explanation of how you will rearrange the
data so you can analyze the best and worst months.
Note: This is a one part question.
(Points : 40)
4. (TCO 5) You’ve just joined the staff of the XYZ Manufacturing Company (XYZ, for
short). XYZ manufactures only one product, the gizmo. It comes in two sizes, the mini-

3. gizmo and the magna-gizmo. Both are difficult to manufacture, and consequently, the
company closely monitors rejected units. The company has three locations, each of
which produces both the mini and the magna-gizmos. You are automating the weekly
production reports so that you can easily calculate total production for the entire
company each week.
The mini-gizmo is priced at $3.25 per unit. The magna-gizmo is priced at $7.00 per
unit. The unit cost for a reject mini-gizmo is $1.75. The cost for a reject magna-gizmo
is $3.50. Respond fully to the following questions regarding this task:
Note: This is a two part question.
1.) The managers will e-mail their weekly reports to you on Monday of the following
week. You will then produce the summary report. Explain the process for doing this.
Give a sample formula to total the number of mini-gizmos produced by the entire
company in a week.
2.) Each week, you will present the combined report to your boss, who wants to see
both the summary and the individual sheets for each location. You want to add a
header with the date and your name to each page. What is the easiest way to do this?
Explain the process.
(Points : 40)
5. (TCO 9) You have been tasked with analyzing an extremely large amount of data and
to ultimately produce a report to share with the board of directors. The data is currently
in a text file and has over two thousand records of data. Explain how you would use
Excel to analyze this data and organize it to prepare a written report. Be very specific
on the variety of tools you would use and the steps you would go through to analyze
the data and to ultimately prepare a detailed report with recommendations.