1. Imagine that you are to design a budget report for a colleague at work using a spreadsheet package. Following the prototyping discussion (see also Figure 1-12), describe the steps you would take to design a prototype of this report.

2. Consider a system that produces inven- tory reports at a local retailer. Alternatively, consider a system that produces student ac- ademic records for the records office at a uni- versity. For whichever system you choose, answer the following design questions: Who will use the output? What is the purpose of the output? When is the output needed, and when is the information that will be used within the output available? Where does the output need to be delivered? How many peo- ple need to view the output?