COMPUTER SCIENCE

code 30424 a.y. 2018-19

Lesson 7
Date and time management with the spreadsheet

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Objectives of the lesson

Understand how to manage dates and times in Excel and how to
use the related functions
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Our case
We have to create a tool in order to calculate the monthly wage of
the consultants of a small company.

We are asked to create a tool with several automatic features so

that, inserting a few data, several relevant information are
automatically calculated.
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Development
To solve the problem we will:

1. Create a tool which allows to enter the data of the consultant

and of the month considered
2. Calculate the monthly wage of the consultant
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Tools to learn with today’s lecture

• Formulas with dates and times, normalization

• Date & Time functions: DAY, MONTH, YEAR, HOUR, MINUTE,

SECOND, WEEKDAY, DAYS, TODAY, NOW, DATE, DATEDIF

• IFERROR function
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Files of the lesson

In the zip file 30424 ENG - 12 - Lesson 7.zip you will find these files:

• 30424 lesson 7 slides.pdf: these slides

• Timesheet.xlsx: starting files of the lesson
• MercuryT-201805.txt: file with data to be imported
• Timesheet solved.xlsx: solved file
• Assignment 30424 lesson 7.pdf: mock-up questions of the exam
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Book references
Computer skills handbook for economics, third edition:
Chapters n. 4.4 (except 4.4.8), 4.2.3

Excel workbook, second edition: All the exercises of unit 6