Part 1: The Performance Lawn Equipment Database contains data needed to develop a pro forma income statement. Dealers selling PLE products all receive 18% of sales revenue for their part of doing business, and this is accounted for as the selling expense. The tax rate is 50%. Develop an Excel worksheet to extract and summarize the data needed to develop the income statement for 2018 and implement an Excel model in the form of a pro forma income statement for the company. Part 2: The CFO of Performance Lawn Equipment, J. Kenneth Valentine, would like to have a model to predict the net income for the next three years. To do this, you need to determine how the variables in the pro forma income statement will likely change in the future. Using the calculations and worksheet that you developed along with other historical data in the database, estimate the annual rate of change in sales revenue, cost of goods sold, operating expense, and interest expense. Use these rates to modify the pro forma income statement to predict the net income over the next three years. Because the estimates you derived from the historical data may not hold in the future, conduct appropriate what-if and scenario analyses to investigate how the projections might change if these assumptions don’t hold. Summarize your results and conclusions in a report to Mr. Valentine.
> Impact of Credit Report. Explain how a weak credit report can affect you.
> Credit Counseling. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using a credit counseling organization.
> Checking Credit Scores. Why should you be careful about checking your credit score on one of the numerous “free” sites?
> Liquidity Risk. How does liquidity risk affect money management?
> Using Time Value to Estimate Savings. DeMarcus wants to retire with $1 million in savings by the time he turns 60. He is currently 18 years old. How much will he need to save each year, assuming he can get a 10% annual return on his investments?
> Economic Impact on Asset Values. Explain in logical terms why values of assets such as homes and stocks may decline during a weak economy. How does this change affect your net worth?
> Charitable Gifts. How are charitable gifts treated for tax purposes?
> Credit Rights. Under what conditions does the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibit creditors from denying credit? If you are denied credit, do you have the right to know the reason for the denial?
> Risk Premium on a Deposit. A local bank offers a deposit that earns 4% annual interest. The deposit is backed by the government if the bank fails. What is the risk premium of this depost?
> Time Value and Savings. How can an understanding of the time value of money motivate you to save more money?
> What are some possible disadvantages of using online sources of personal finance information?
> Cash Versus Credit. Why should some people use cash to make purchases instead of credit?
> Common Types of Credit. What are some common types of credit?
> Correcting Mistakes on Your Credit Report. Explain how to correct a mistake you discovered on your credit report.
> Credit Cards and Liquidity. What is the risk of using credit cards as a source of liquidity?
> Future Value of Annuity. Kirk can take his $1,000 income tax refund and invest it in a 36-month certificate of deposit at 3%, compounded monthly, or he can use the money to purchase a home entertainment system and put $30 a month in a bank savings accoun
> Calculating a Risk Premium. What is a risk premium? How is the risk premium calculated?
> Reconciling Your Account Balance. What does it mean to “reconcile your account balance?” Why is it important for you to regularly perform this task?
> Standard Deduction. What is a standard deduction? How much is the standard deduction for taxpayers filing single? For married taxpayers filing jointly?
> Mortgage Interest. How is mortgage interest treated for tax purposes? How does it differ from auto loan interest?
> Future Value of Debt. How does deferring student loan payments affect the future value of your debt?
> Medicare. What is Medicare? How much do you pay in Medicare taxes?
> Peer Pressure and Cash Outflows. How can peer pressure affect your cash outflows?
> Career Choice and Cash Flows. How does your choice of career affect your cash flows?
> Age and Cash Flows. How are cash flows related to your life stage or age?
> Student Loan Debt and Cash Flows. How does student loan debt affect your cash flows while in college? How does student loan debt affect your cash flows after college?
> Future Value of Annuity. Jen spends $20 per week on doughnuts and coffee. If she takes the same amount that she spends on doughnuts and coffee and invests it each week for the next five years at 4%, compounded weekly, how much will she have in five years
> Your friend Brad Brooks wants your guidance on his latest retirement plans. Although he is only 30 years old, he says he is now determined to consistently save a portion of his paycheck so that he can retire early. Be sure to access the Excel spreadsheet
> Use the Descriptive Statistics tool to summarize the responses in the Excel file Job Satisfaction. What information can you conclude from this analysis?
> Apply the Descriptive Statistics tool for subsets of liberal arts colleges and research universities in the Excel file Colleges and Universities. Compare the two types of colleges. What can you conclude?
> Find 30 days of stock prices for three companies in different industries. The average stock prices should have a wide range of values. Using the data, compute and interpret the coefficient of variation.
> Compute the coefficient of variation for each variable in the Excel file Course Marks. Which has the least and greatest relative dispersion?
> Compute the mean and standard deviation of the data in the Cost of Living Adjustments Excel file. Then compute the z-scores for the comparative salaries and housing adjustments and interpret your results.
> The Excel file Atlanta Airline Data provides arrival and taxi-in time statistics for one day at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. Find the mean and standard deviation of the difference between the scheduled and actual arrival times and the taxi-i
> Use the Excel file Land to find the mean, standard deviation, and interquartile range of the land size. Show that Chebyshev’s theorem holds for the data and determine how accurate the empirical rules are.
> Use the Descriptive Statistics tool to summarize the mean, median, variance, and standard deviation of the prices of shares in the Coffee Shares Excel file.
> In the Excel file Facebook Survey, find the range, variance, standard deviation, and interquartile range for hours online/week and number of friends in the sample using the appropriate Excel functions. Compare these measures of dispersion.
> Use the Excel file Course Marks to calculate the mean, variance and standard deviation for each variable using formulas (4.5), (4.8), and (4.10). Verify your calculations using the appropriate Excel function.
> In one of PLE’s manufacturing facilities, a drill press that has three drill bits is used to fabricate metal parts. Drill bits break occasionally and need to be replaced. The present policy is to replace a drill bit when it breaks or can no longer be use
> Considering the data in the Excel file House Market Value as a population of homeowners on this street, compute the mean, variance, and standard deviation for each of the variables using a spreadsheet and formulas (4.4), (4.7), and (4.9). Verify your cal
> Compute the mean, median, midrange, and mode for each of the importance factors in the Excel file Coffee Shop Preferences using the appropriate Excel functions.
> Find the mean, median, and midrange for the data in the Excel file Automobile Quality using the appropriate Excel functions or formulas.
> Use PivotTables to construct cross-tabulations between each pair of variables in the Excel file Beverage Preferences
> Use PivotTables to construct cross-tabulations for (1) neighborhood and improvement and (2) neighborhood and structure home for the Excel file Home.
> Find the first, second, and third quartiles for the sales amounts in the Sales Transactions database and interpret the results.
> Find the first, second, and third quartiles for the combined amounts of checking and savings accounts in the Excel file Credit Risk Data and interpret the results.
> Find the 25th and 70th percentiles of the costs in the Excel file Road Construction. Use formula (4.3), the Excel PERCENTILE.INC function, and the Rank and Percentile tool, and compare the results.
> Use a PivotTable to construct a frequency distribution and histogram for GPA in the Excel file Grade Point Averages.
> Use a PivotTable to develop a frequency distribution with six bins for the age of individuals in the Base Data worksheet in the Credit Risk Data file. Compute and chart the relative and cumulative relative frequencies.
> Use a PivotTable to construct a frequency distribution and histogram of lunch sales amounts in the Restaurant Sales database.
> Identify the bins for number of letters, width, and height in the provided data in the Excel file Letter. Then use the Histogram tool to compute frequency distributions and cumulative relative frequencies and create charts for the data.
> A survey handed out to students at a local university in Munich, Germany, asked the following: ■ Where do you live? (1- On Campus 2- City 3- Other) ■ How do you feel today? (using a scale of 1–5, ranging from very happy to very unhappy) ■ What is your f
> Construct a column chart for the data in the Excel file Purchasing Rate to allow comparison of the rate for each product with the date. Would any other charts be better for visually conveying this information? Why?
> The Excel file Monthly Visits provides the data for monthly visitors visited a playground and the number of shows prepared by the playground organizer during the specific month. Create a scatter diagram to show the relationship between the number of visi
> The Excel file Mortgage Installment provides the monthly installment of a mortgage loan by different fixed interest rate (%) provided by different banks. Construct a scatter diagram to show the relationship between the monthly installment and the fixed i
> Create a stacked area chart for the monthly average sales of the different types of fuel in the Excel file Average Fuel Sales. What conclusion can you reach?
> The Excel file Expenditure contains data on a country’s expenditure on various sports during a particular year. Create a pie chart showing the percentage breakdown of total expenditure.
> Create a pie chart for all the given dates and a stock chart for the high/low/close prices for March 2018 in the Stock Excel file.
> Create a useful dashboard for the data in the Excel file Employees. Use appropriate charts, layouts, and other visualization tools that help to convey the information. Explain why you chose the elements of the dashboard and how a manager might use them.
> The worksheet Purchasing Survey in the Performance Lawn Care Database provides data related to predicting the level of business (Usage Level) obtained from a third-party survey of purchasing managers of firms that are customers of Performance Lawn Equipm
> Create a useful dashboard for the data in the Excel file Store and Regional Sales Database. Use appropriate charts and layouts and other visualization tools that help to convey the information. Explain why you chose the elements of the dashboard and how
> Create a line chart illustrating the number of AM and PM travelers for each month in the Excel file Traveler.
> Create a useful dashboard for the data in the Excel file Restaurant Sales. Use appropriate charts and layouts and other visualization tools that help to convey the information. Explain why you chose the elements of the dashboard and how a manager might u
> Create a useful dashboard for the data in the Excel file President’s Inn Guest Database. Use the additional information stated in Problem 20 of Chapter 2: Room rates are the same for one or two guests; however, additional guests must pay an additional $2
> A survey was conduct for determine the number of vegetarians and non-vegetarians between two different group of age of people. The survey results the followings: Convert the data into percentages for each age group. Then construct a chart of count and a
> Construct an appropriate chart or charts to visualize the information in the Budget Forecasting Excel file. Explain why you chose the chart(s) you used.
> Construct an appropriate chart to show the sales per unit for the primary industry in the Excel file Primary Industry.
> The Excel file Transportation provides sales data about 10 different industries. Construct two stacked bar charts that will allow you to compare any differences due to time or age groups and draw any conclusions that you can. Suggest another type of char
> Create clustered column and stacked column charts for the pre-MBA and post-MBA salary data in the Excel file MBA Motivation and Salary Expectations. Discuss which type of chart you feel is better to use to explain the information.
> In the Excel file Automobile Quality Ranking, search for and add a new column for the country of origin for each brand. Then sort the data from the lowest to highest by number of problems per 100 vehicles in Excel. What conclusions can you reach?
> PLE collects a variety of data from special studies, many of which are related to the quality of its products. The company collects data about functional test performance of its mowers after assembly; results from the past 30 days are given in the worksh
> The Excel file Global Industry Default and Rating summarizes financial information for 32 European firms, in the manufacturing and services industries, and their perceived risk of default. Convert these data into an Excel table. Use table-based calculati
> The Excel file Stationary provides the sales data for a stationary company, and each row represents an order for its products. Convert these data into an Excel table and filter the central region for those that have sold more than 50 units. What is the d
> Convert the Order Specifications database to an Excel table. Use the techniques to find: a. the total cost of all orders. b. the total cost of all orders placed with Multipurpose Fasteners. c. the total quantity of airframe bolts purchased.
> Convert the Hospital Claim database to an Excel table. Use the techniques to find: a. the total number of claims. b. the total number of outpatient claims. c. the total number of claims in January.
> The Financial Forecasts database shows estimated variable and fixed expenses of a firm for the first nine months of the coming year. Define range names for each month and the type of expense. Then use the range names in formulas to find the total for eac
> The Excel file S&P 500 provides open, high, low, and close values for the S&P 500 index over a period of time. a. Enter any date (using the format month/day/year) within the range of the data in cell G2. Use a MATCH function in cell G3 to find the row in
> A shirt manufacturer needs to supply invoices to customers based on data from the Shirt Production Excel file, which indicates the costs (in £) and sizes. Modify the file to use the VLOOKUP function to compute the customer invoice when product specificat
> A survey was conducted to identify the type of movies watched by 15 people in the past two weeks. If the type of movie watched by one person is different from the others, then the code 1 will be assigned to that movie by the database. If they are the sam
> Create box-and-whisker charts for each type of expense in the Excel file Budget Forecasting.
> A new graduate has taken a job with an annual salary of $60,000. She expects her salary to go up by 2.5% each year for the first five years. Her starting salary is stored in cell A4 of an Excel worksheet, and the salary increase rate is stored in cell B4
> Construct histograms using the Histogram chart for the gross sales and gross profit data in the Excel file Sales Data.
> Develop a spreadsheet for computing the demand for any values of the input variables in the linear demand and nonlinear demand.
> Swissotel, London, is working on improving customer satisfaction and engagement. At the same time, Swissotel wants to ensure that the staff members are also satisfied. It has noticed that there are several areas that will need to be analyzed. The problem
> For the Cereal database, write a logical IF function that enters “Review” in column M if the rating is more than 45 and the sales is less than 150; if not, then enter a blank.
> How might analytics be used in the following situations? a. Planning a business b. Understanding customer behavior c. Solving human resource problems
> A part-time professor of a business program at a university in Germany always tells her students that one of the first questions they should ask their new employers is whether the organization has a good customer program. Why do you think the professor e
> In this chapter, we noted the importance of defining and analyzing a problem prior to attempting to find a solution. Consider this example: One of the earliest operations research groups during World War II was conducting a study on the optimum utilizati
> A tablet manufacturer is preparing to set the price of a new model. It examines the demand and cost structure, and determines the following model to represent the relationship between demand and price D = 50 + 2P The finance department estimates that the
> Discuss the use of business analytics in sports, such as tennis, cricket, swimming, and football. Identify as many opportunities as you can for each.
> Define range names for all the entities in the Hotel Overbooking Model spreadsheet and apply them to the formulas in the model.
> Define range names for all the entities in the Crebo Manufacturing Model spreadsheet and apply them to the formulas in the model.
> Define range names for all the data and model entities in the Break-Even Decision Model spreadsheet and apply them to the formulas in the model.
> Create box-and-whisker charts for each type of cost of living adjustment in the Excel file Cost of Living Adjustments.
> For the Base Data in the Excel file Credit Risk Data, use the Histogram chart to develop a histogram with a bin width of 5 for the number of months as a customer of the bank.
> Figure 2.41 shows the 2016 U.S. federal income tax rates for the four different types of filing status. Suppose an individual is single. Write one logical IF function that will determine the correct tax rate for any income that is entered in cell B3 of a
> Elizabeth Burke has received several questions from other PLE managers regarding quality, customer satisfaction, and operational performance. She would like you to summarize some data from the Performance Lawn Equipment Database using statistical tools a
> Use the Histogram chart to construct histograms for weekly usage and waiting time in the Excel file Car Sharing Survey.
> A company forecasts its net revenue for the next three years as $172,800, $213,580, and $293,985. Find the net present value of these cash flows, assuming a discount rate of 4.2%.
> In the Accounting Professionals database, use Excel functions to find a. the maximum number of years of service. b. the average number of years of service. c. the number of male employees in the database. d. the number of female employees who have a CPA.
