You currently work for an automotive parts supply store. Your company is growing

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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 visual representations need to be concise and clearly 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.

Explanation / Answer

You have decided to investigate the trend in sales over the past three years. Respond fully to the following questions regarding this task:
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A - (TCO 9) The data for the North and Central locations has been provided to you in the form of .csv files. The South location information is in an Excel file. Explain the steps involved in converting the information from the .csv files to Excel, and what steps you will take to assure the data is usable.

I would follow these steps:
* Open Excel
* Go to

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