This document provides an overview of an advanced Microsoft Excel lesson. The objectives are to familiarize students with commonly used Excel functions, conditional functions, and how to use Excel for market research and product development. An example is provided on using Excel to estimate the product cost of a milk tea. Formulas like SUM, subtraction, and division are used to calculate the ingredient costs and determine if the estimated sale price would be profitable. The lesson concludes with a discussion on analyzing survey data in Excel.

1. Lesson 4: Advanced
Spreadsheet Skills
Presented by: Darwin B. Lope

2. Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:
1.) Familiarize the most commonly used functions in
Microsoft Excel
2.) Use several conditional functions available in
Microsoft Excel
3.) Use Microsoft Excel as a viable tool in market
research and product development

3. Discussion
Whether you work in the field of accounting or not,
the truth is whatever you do should be accounted for. This is
because the resources you use cost you expenses. Whether
you become a scientist, an engineer, a yoga instructor, a
bartender, or an airline pilot, it is important to understand
how a company spends to be able to deliver a product or
service. These factors could easily be computed using
spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel or Google
Sheets.

4. Estimating the Product
Cost using Microsoft Excel
Let us assume that we are going to sell milk tea with the
following information:
Product Information
Product Name/Brand: Starbuko Organic Milk Tea
Company/Group Name: Starbuko Foods Corporation
Product Description:
Starbuko Milk Tea is a special milk tea using organic
ingredients especially made for Filipinos.
Ingredients: tea, water, condensed milk, ice, special sweetener
Estimated Sale Price: 25 Php per cup

5. We will use Microsoft Excel to find out if our estimated sale
price is reasonable considering the actual price of the ingredients.
1.) Copy the information below:

6. 2.) Use the SUM formula to get the summation of the
values from C4 to C7. The SUM formula is =SUM(C4:C7).
Type this on cell C8 as shown below:

7. 3.) Check if our estimated price will earn us profit. Type the
additional information shown below then apply the
arithmetic formula for subtraction:

8. 4.) The result is PHP 2.20. Our estimated price is not
profitable. Let us make an adjustment. Include the
information below and deduct the Total from the New Sale
Price:

9. 5.) The result is PHP 7.80. This is definitely profitable at
this price. However, this does not guarantee our product
success.
6.) Save your file as L4 Cost Ingredients.xlsx.

10. Analyzing Data using
Microsoft Excel
It is now time for us to collect data from out target
market. In reality, researchers would also come up with
survey questions before they release the product. The data
they gathered would help them determine if the product has
any chance of succeeding in a target market.

11. Figure 1. Raw Survey Results of Starbuko Milk Tea Survey

16. Post-Test
Multiple Choice. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space before each
number.
___1.) A program designed to create spreadsheets which can later be used to
analyze statistical data.
a. Microsoft Excel c. Microsoft Publisher
b. Microsoft Word d. Microsoft OneNote
___2.) A number format that puts a dollar symbol before each value by default.
a. percent c. comma
b. accounting d. date/time
___3.) A function that adds a range of cells.
a. ADD c. SUM
b. PLUS d. TOTAL
___4.) This is the tab in the format Cells dialog box where you can change the
orientation of a text.
a. alignment c. file
b. orientation d. view

17. ___5.) A function that gets the average of a range of cells.
a. AVERAGE c. MEAN
b. SUM d. MEDIAN
___6.) Which among the following is not part of the syntax for AVERAGEIF?
a. average range c. logical test
b. range d. criteria
___7.) A function used to count the number of cells that contains something in them
if the criteria are met.
a. COUNT c. COUNTING
b. COUNTNOW d. COUNTIF
___8.) A function used to add a certain range of cells if a condition is met.
a. SUMIF c. TOTALIF
b. ADIF d. PLUSIF
___9.) The shortcut key for the format Cells dialog box.
a. Ctrl + F c. Ctrl + 1
b. Shift + F d. Alt + 1
___10.) A syntax in the AVERAGE function that includes the value or label that
determines if the cell is part of the range to be averaged.
a. range c. average range
b. criteria d. logical test

18. REFERENCE
Empowerment Technologies
Innovative Training Works, Inc.