MIS111-L, Case Analysis 3

Student Identification Section (enter your name and NetID below and in the document footer)
Name: Pontius, Molly
UANetID: mollypontius
E-tegrity Statement Section

Excel Application Section

Task 1(a):
As a marketing major I would use the LEFT() function when looking at a large amount
of sales data that are listed as entries that contain 3 different parts of information, such
as product code, price code and customer code. Instead of rewriting the first 3 letters to
record product code you can use the LEFT() function in Excel to record the left most
three letters.
Task 1(b):
As a marketing major I would use the MID() function when looking at a large amount of
sales data that are listed as entries that contain 3 different parts of information, such as
product code, price code and customer code. Instead of rewriting the first 3 letters to
record price code you can use the MID() function in Excel to record the middle most
three letters.

Task 2(a):

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Enter 8-digit 23309365

Student ID

Enter Pontius, Molly

Your Name
Information Technology,
Materials,
Telecommunications
Services, Utilities,
Row Label filter Consumer Discretionary
Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts,
Slicer Locations Michigan

Task 2(b):
2(b)(i) (Customer) State: =VLOOKUP([@CustomerID],customers,3,FALSE)
2(b)(ii) (Stock) Sector: =VLOOKUP([@Ticker],Stocks,5,FALSE)

Task 2(c):
Count of Average of Average of Sum of Total Dollar
Sector TransactionID Qty UnitPrice Value

Consumer Discretionary 383 6,418.54 $126.15 $282,743,203.75

Information Technology 314 6,265.84 $71.97 $142,454,840.75

Materials 115 6,352.83 $70.53 $50,101,745.50

Telecommunications Services 27 5,946.30 $31.74 $4,950,100.50

Utilities 126 6,233.13 $46.85 $37,350,524.75

Grand Total 965 6,323.60 $88.90 $517,600,415.25

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Task 2(d):

Task 2(e):
Q1: Consumer Discretionary

Q2: 6323.60

Q3: Telecommunications Services

Q4: Consumer Discretionary

Task 3(a):
Data validation rules are very important because without them then it would be so easy
to record or use invalid data and therefore making the project or report made using the
invalid data would be useless. I know this because when complete task 2 the data
changed drastically when I altered one thing during the data validation process.

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