Mischief, Inc., is a regional pet toy supplier that tracks its business sales in a spreadsheet. The owner, Lisa Derrick, has provided you with a skeleton worksheet, T2_TotalMischief_ Data.xls, with the totals for each quarter by sales region. Lisa needs you to total each column and row, and then provide her with a clustered column chart of each region by quarter. See Figure T2.21 for a sample of what Lisa would like you to do. Regional Sales Summary
Mischief, Inc., is a regional pet toy supplier that tracks its business sales in a spreadsheet.
The owner, Lisa Derrick, has provided you with a skeleton worksheet, T2_TotalMischief_
Data.xls, with the totals for each quarter by sales region. Lisa needs you to total each
column and row, and then provide her with a clustered column chart of each region by
quarter. See Figure T2.21 for a sample of what Lisa would like you to do.
| Regional Sales Summary | |||||
| 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter | Totals | |
| Northeast | $ 119,700.00 | $ 125,100.00 | $ 133,400.00 | $ 139,500.00 | |
| South | $ 48,900.00 | $ 52,000.00 | $ 49,600.00 | $ 54,500.00 | |
| Midwest | $ 34,600.00 | $ 32,200.00 | $ 47,000.00 | $ 45,900.00 | |
| West | $ 56,200.00 | $ 49,000.00 | $ 52,000.00 | $ 51,300.00 | |
| Totals | |||||
You would sum up the sales for each quarter across all areas to get the total for each column. The sum of the sales for the Northeast, South, Midwest, and West areas, for instance, would be the entire sales for the first quarter.
You would sum up the sales for each quarter for a certain region to get the total for each row. The sum of the Northeast region's sales for each quarter, for instance, would represent the region's overall sales.
The totals for each row would be added together in the final column.
The sales data would be visually represented as a clustered column chart, with each column indicating a quarter and each area represented by a distinct color. Each column's height would reflect the region's and quarter's total sales. You may simply compare sales between areas and quarters using the graphic.
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