Excel Project 1 – MS Excel (Summer 2019) Use The Following P

Excel Project 1 – MS Excel (Summer 2019) Use the following project description to complete this activity

Create a Microsoft Excel workbook with four worksheets that provides extensive use of Excel capabilities including charting, and written analysis and recommendations in support of a business enterprise. A large rental car company has two metropolitan locations, one at the airport and another centrally located in downtown. It has been operating since 2015 and each location summarizes its car rental revenue quarterly.

Both locations rent four classes of cars: economy, premium, hybrid, SUV. Rental revenue is maintained separately for the four classes of rental vehicles. The data for this case resides in the file summer2019rentalcars.txt and can be downloaded by clicking on the Assignments tab, then on the data file name. It is a text file (with the file type .txt). Do not create your own data.

You must use the data provided and only the data provided. Default Formatting. All labels, text, and numbers will be Arial 10. There will be $ and comma and decimal point variations for numeric data, but Arial 10 will be the default font and font size. Tutorials Note: Tutorials that address activities used in this project have been assigned in Week 1, 2 and 3.

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Introduction

This project demonstrates comprehensive use of Microsoft Excel to analyze rental car revenue data for a large enterprise operating in two metropolitan locations—airport and downtown—over several years. The tasks include data importing, organization, analysis, chart creation, and written interpretative responses, thereby showcasing proficiency in data handling, visualization, and reporting within Excel.

Workbook Setup and Data Import

The initial step involves creating a new Excel workbook, naming it appropriately to include the student's last name, first name initial, and the project number, such as "SmithJExcel Project 1." The print layout is set to landscape orientation for optimal presentation. A worksheet titled "Analysis by" is prepared, with labels such as "Name:", "Class/Section:", "Project:", and "Date Due:" aligned right and formatted in Arial 10. Following, the student inputs their respective details aligned left beside each label.

Subsequently, three additional worksheets named "Data," "Sorted," and "Airport" are created, with any extraneous sheets deleted. Worksheets are reordered to maintain the specified sequence. The rental data, downloaded as a text file, is imported into the "Data" worksheet starting at cell A1, utilizing the Text Import Wizard if necessary. The data is formatted to display revenue in currency format ($ with no decimal, commas as thousand separators) and number of cars as a numeric format with comma separators, aligning with project standards.

Data Organization and Table Management

An Excel table is generated from the imported data, styled with banded rows for clarity, with headers highlighted and ensuring no blank cells disrupt the dataset. This table is then copied to the "Sorted" worksheet, where it is sorted ascending by "Location." The filtered data pertaining only to the "Airport" location is then copied over to the "Airport" worksheet. In this worksheet, all "Downtown" rows are deleted, retaining only "Airport" data.

Within the "Airport" worksheet, a custom sort is applied to organize data first by "CarClass" (ascending), then by "Year" (ascending), and finally by "Quarter" (ascending). A new column "AvgRev" is added adjacent to "NumCars" to calculate the average revenue per car for each row, formatted as currency with two decimal places. Formulas are entered across all data rows, leveraging Excel table structured references for accuracy. Named ranges are created for the "AvgRev" for each car class to enable quick calculation of averages per class.

Data Analysis and Summary Calculations

Labels are added to describe the average quarterly revenue per car class, with appropriate formatting (bold, Arial 10, left justification). Using the named ranges, the worksheet computes the average revenue across all "Airport" data for each car class, formatted as currency. Conditional formatting highlights "AvgRev" cells exceeding their class averages with green fill and dark green text, providing visual cues on revenue performance variability.

Furthermore, two column/bar charts are constructed: one illustrating the average quarterly revenue for hybrid cars over ten quarters (2015–2017) and another displaying similar data for premium cars across four quarterly periods. These visualizations are titled appropriately to convey their purpose and are positioned strategically within the worksheet for clarity.

In response to interpretative questions, the student analyzes the revenue trend of hybrids based on the chart, discussing whether revenues are increasing, decreasing, or stable, supported by rationale. Additionally, the student recommends the type of chart best suited to compare all class revenues across ten quarters and justifies this choice, emphasizing clarity and comparative insight.

Throughout the project, all data, labels, and numerical values follow the Arial font size 10, with proper formatting applied consistently. The completion of these steps demonstrates proficiency in data import, organization, analysis, visualization, and report writing within Excel, essential for business data analysis roles.

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