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

Managing contacts You can manage your contacts and mailing addresses, and then create reports in Access or merge the data with Microsoft Office Word to print form letters, envelopes, or mailing labels.

Inventory and Asset tracking You can create an inventory of items in your home or business, and store photos or other related documents along with the data.

Order tracking You can enter information about products, customers, and orders, and then create reports that show sales by employee, region, time period, or some other value.

Task tracking You can track tasks for a group of people, and enter new tasks at the same time others are updating their existing tasks in the same database.

Organizing lending libraries You can use Access to store data about your books and CDs, and keep track of whom you have lent them to.

Event Planning You can enter information about event dates, locations, and participants, and then print schedules or summaries about the events.

Nutrition tracking Keep track of recipes, and log diet and exercise activities.

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