IT Software for Business - Assignment
• Word Exercise: Create a professional curriculum vitae, including a picture and at least 2-3 educational institutions and work experience (if you do not have enough, feel free to invent them).
• PowerPoint Exercise: Create a PowerPoint presentation about your hometown/country using the features of the program (pictures, transitions, animation, styles, lists etc).
• Excel Exercise: Solve the following problems in one Excel Sheet, having each exercise on a separate sheet.
When you have finished the three exercises, upload them to Moodle, you have time to do so until the last class of the semester.
Exercise 1
Create a Personal Budget Sheet, including the following categories:
- In rows:
• INCOME:
- Salary, Public Assistance, Food Stamps, Other. Total Income
• EXPENSES:
- Living/Housing: Rent/Mortgage, Electric, Water/Sewer, Gas/Heating, Telephone, Cable TV, Household/Repairs, Other. Total Housing.
- Regular Payments: Student Loan, Credit Cards, Other Loan Payments, Health Insurance, Car/Home Insurance: Life Insurance, Child Care, Other. Total Regular payments.
- Food Expenses: Groceries, Restaurant Meals, Other. Total Food.
- Personal Expenses: Personal Care, Hair/Nail Care, Clothing/Shoes, Doctors, Prescriptions, Laundry/Dry Clean, Recreation/Travel, Other. Total Personal.
- Transportation: Gas/Auto Expenses, Bus, Taxi, Train, etc., Parking, Other - Miscellaneous: Church, Gifts/Charity, Savings, Other. Total Personal.
- Total Expenses
• TOTAL INCOME MINUS TOTAL EXPENSES
- In columns: the 12 months of the year. - Include also the grand total.
IT Software for Business - Assignment
Exercise 2
A survey has been completed by 30 families. Their responses for "number of children" are the following:
1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 0, 6, 2, 1, 1, 0
1) Introduce these numbers in an Excel table and calculate the the following statistical data: minimum, maximum, average, median, mode.
2) Use conditional formatting (on the original data) to highlight the cells with numbers grater than 2.
3) Create the following table next to the data displayed with the following information:
Number of Children Number of families
0 ....
1 ....
2 ....
3 ....
4 ....
5 ....
6 ....
With the second column containing the number of families having 0, 1, ..., 6 children.
4) Show the last results in a Pie Chart.
Exercise 3
Suppose that we have an annual interest rate of 6%.
1) Calculate the present value of 200€ payments at the end of each month (type 0), during 2 years.
2) Calculate the future value of 50€ payment at the beginning of each year (type 1), during 10 years.
3) Calculate the internal rate of return of an investment of 3000€, if we get 950€, 930€, 800€ and 528€ in the following periods.
4) Calculate the internal rate of return of an investment of 5000€ on 1st January 2013, if we get 1900€ on 14th February 2013, 1640€ on 25th March 2013 and 1500€ 12th May of 2013.
5) Compare the net present value of the following two investment possibilities:
A: to invest 4000€ now and get 1000€, 1800€, 1500€ and 300€ in the next years,
B: to invest 5000€ now, and get 1300€, 1350€, 1400€ and 1450€ in the next years if we suppose that there is a 2% of annual interest rate.
Exercise 4
1) Which would you choose of the following two options?
A: to get 20,000€ in 4 years,
B: to get 1000€ now and 1000€ at the end of in each quarter during four years (future value, suppose that there is 8% of annual interest rate).
Which would you choose, if the interest rate were 7% annual?
2) Which would you choose of the following two options?
A: to get 7,300€ now, or
B: to get 240 at the beginning of each month (type 1), for three years, supposing that there is a 12% of annual interest rate.
3) Which would you choose of the following two options, if you had 10,000€ to invest:
A: a savings account with 5,5% of interest rate
B: a return of 2000€ annually in the following 6 years (use IRR).
4) Compare the internal rate of return of the following investment opportunities
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Data
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A
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B
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C
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Investment
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01/01/2013
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-5000
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-6000
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-5500
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Return
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25/03/2013
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1800
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2000
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1900
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10/07/2013
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1600
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1830
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1700
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20/10/2013
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1300
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1600
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1000
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31/12/2013
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500
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800
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1145
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Functions used:
MAX, MIN, SUM, AVERAGE, MODE, MEDIAN, COUNTIF, PV, FV, IRR, XIRR, NPV.