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This assignment prepares a Profit and Loss (also called Income) statement, the most common and  important financial statement in business. 
Perform the following tasks in the order given:
  1. Enter column A, rows 1,2, and 3 enter "Revenue", "Cost of Goods Sold", "Gross Margin" as row labels.
  2. Adjust the column width.
  3. In B1, enter a value for as Revenue (this is the money that is collected for all goods and services sold).
  4. Format column B with a comma (,) and not pennies. Format B1 with a $ and no pennies
  5. Enter another value  in B2 for "Cost of Good Sold". (This is the money that MUST be spend to create and sell the Note it comes in with the correct formatting
  6. Enter the formula for Gross Margin in cell B3. (Type or click on the =, point to cell B1, type a minus(-), point to cell B2)
  7. Change revenue value (increase it by 50,000) Change "Cost of Good Sold" value. Note the change in Gross Margin.
  8. Save the sheet to your disk (UCC hard disk space, floppy or Zip) as "P_AND_L" or "Income Statement" or whatever name makes sense to you and that you will remember.  Upload to your briefcase later.
  9. Enter labels for 3 Discretionary (non-operating) Expenses such as Interest", "Officer's Bonus" and "Xmas Party" in column A, rows 4, 5, and 6.
  10. Enter 3 values for the 3 Discretionary (non-operating) Expenses into B4, B5 and B6.
  11. Enter label "Total Non Operating Expenses" in cell A7
  12. Total above 3 amounts using a AutoSum icon (sigma).  Adjust which cells (B4, B5 and B6) are to be summed.
  13. Enter Net Income as a row label in row 8 and the formula to calculate it in Cell B8.  Net Income is the Gross Profit minus the total Non-Operating Expenses.
  14. Save the sheet again.
  15. Enter Taxes as a row label for row 9. Enter B9 using the formula as 23% of Net Income of $25,000 is Taxes.  This requires using the IF function.  The best way to do this is to
    bulletrename Sheet2 (on the bottom tab, right click) Assumptions
    bullettype TaxRate in to Cell A1 of Assumptions
    bullettype Taxable Minimum into cell A2
    bullettype the current tax rate value (23%) in to call B1 and the minimum taxable amount ($25,000) into call B2
    bulletselect all 4 cells
    bulletinsert menu name create
    bulletcheck that you got the two names using the drop down on the upper left, just to the left of the
    bulletin cell B9
    bulletclick
    bulletselect IF
    bulletcreate the test which is the Net Income amount is greater than the Taxable Minimum (either point to it or hit F3)
    bulletthe true is Net Income amount minus Taxable Minimum value times Tax Rate (add parenthesis as need)
    bulletthe false is 0 (zero)
  16. Enter "Net Inc. After Tax" as a row label for row 10
  17. In column B enter a formula that finds the difference between Net income and Taxes.
  18. Format "Net Inc. After Tax "with a $ (no Pennies)
  19. Save the sheet.
  20. Enter "Number of Shares Outstanding" as a row label and 5,000 in cell B12
  21. Enter "Earnings Per Share" as the next row label and enter a formula for Earning Per share.  (IF there is $x of income, what is each shareholder's share?)
  22. Format "Earning per Share" with a $ and pennies. Bold label and value in the row.
  23. Position the Select on row 1 and insert a new row.
  24. Enter Monday in B1 and drag to C1 to E1.   See Tuesday, Wednesday.. etc appear. UNDO
    Enter January in B1 and drag to B1, C1, D1, E1 etc. and see February, March etc appear, UNDO
    Now for real, enter 1 Qtr 07 as column labels in B1 and drag C1 to D1 and see 2Qtr 07 appear.     Underline the years.
  25. Enter bigger amounts for Revenue and  for Cost of Goods Sold in the C2 and C3.
  26. Copy the Cost formula from B4 to column C4.
  27. In column C, Enter 3 new amounts for the 3 Non Operating Expenses some higher some lower than the prior period.
  28. Select all formulas in the remaining rows of column B and copy them from column B to column C.
  29. Enter "Difference" as column D label.
  30. Enter formula for the difference between 1Qtr 07 and 2 Qtr 07.
  31. Enter %t Diff as column E label
  32. Enter formula the divides the dollar difference by the first period amount
  33. Restyle as percentage with no decimals
  34. Fill Down the entire column.
  35. Setup a Header and footer with a title your name, the date, etc.
  36. Save and Print sheet
  37. Select Cost of Goods Sold value.
  38. Hold down the ctrl key and select cells with the values of the other components or revenue: the 3 Discretionary expenses, taxes and Net Income.
  39. Keeping the Cntl key depressed, select the labels)
  40. Use the Chart Wizard to create a pie chart in the sheet
  41. Spruce up the chart is desired by putting patterns in the slices, exploding a slice, putting data labels and percentages around the chart.  Make sure the chart doesn't cover the numbers.
  42. Save and Print sheet with the chart
  43. Print the formulae (Tools menu, Options, View tab) with gridlines and row and column heading (File menu Print Setup)

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