1. Open the excel sheet Session 3 Data.xls for this exercise.

a) Type in the following data in adjacent rows and columns in the excel worksheet:

Product lip foundation lipstick eye mascara

gloss liner
Discount 5.0% 3.5% 4.0% 7.0% 6.5%

b) Generate a list of sales persons. Next to each sales person type in the following
data in adjacent rows and columns in the excel worksheet:

Sales Discount
Person
Betsy 1.0%
Hallagan 1.2%
Ashley 1.1%
Zaret 1.0%
Colleen 1.3%
Cristina 1.2%
Emilee 1.0%
Jen 1.0%
Cici 1.1%

c) If the products were to be sold at the ‘product discounts’ shown in part a), and the
sales persons exercise their discretion to offer a further discount as per the
schedule shown in part b), calculate the ‘Discounted Value’ of each transaction.

d) Calculate the discounted total value of sales of each Sales Person and populate
them against the name of each sales person.

e) Sales persons get commission as per the following schedule:

Total Discounted Commission

Sales (More than)
20000 10%
25000 15%
30000 20%

Against the name of each sales person populate the commission rate applicable and the
commission earned.
f) If commissions are paid on Yearly Sales (rather than on Total Sales) as per the
following schedule recalculate the total commission for each sales person.

Yearly Commission
Yearly Sales Above 2004 2005 2006
7500 7.5% 7.5% 7.5%
8000 8.0% 8.0% 8.0%
8500 8.5% 9.0% 9.0%
9000 9.0% 9.5% 9.5%
10000 10.0% 10.0% 10.5%