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BIS 155 All iLabs Course Project For more
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Course Project Excel Project BIS 155 Lab 1 of 7
Saddle River Marching Band BIS 155 iLab 1 Upper
Saddle River Marching Band (New) BIS 155 Lab 2 of
7 Excel's Advanced Formulas Functions BIS 155
iLab 2 First National Bank (New) BIS 155 Lab 3
of 7 Alice Barr Realty Analysis
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BIS 155 Final Exam Guide (Cool Clocks, Inc.) For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   BIS15
5 Practical Final Exam Instructions 1 for Cool
Clocks, Inc. (v2) Complete the tasks below using
Microsoft Excel. You may refer to your notes,
the textbook, or other resources (for example,
you may search the Web for information). You may
not get interactive help from any other person
(either in person or via email, text messaging,
IM, or other communications channels). I strongly
recommend that you save your work frequently.
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BIS 155 Final Exam Guide (Music on Demand) For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Compl
ete the tasks below using Microsoft Excel. You
may refer to your notes, the textbook, or other
resources such as the Web You may not get
interactive help from any other person, either in
person or via email, text messaging, instant
messaging, or other communications channels. I
strongly recommend that you save your work
frequently. You have 4 hours to complete this
exam. Note Be sure to spell check on every
worksheet and correct all spelling
errors. Getting started
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BIS 155 iLab 1 Upper Saddle River Marching Band
(New) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Scenario/Summary You are
the assistant to the band director for the Upper
Saddle River Marching Band, and you must prepare
a report showing the status of the marching band
fundraising event for presentation to the board
of trustees. The report will summarize all sales
of all items and include the total profit-to-date
with the amount remaining to reach the profit
goal.
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BIS 155 iLab 2 First National Bank (New) For
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rio/Summary You are an intern at First National
Bank working in the loan department, and your
boss has asked you to prepare the monthly "New
Loan Report" for the Board of Directors. This
analysis report will clearly list and summarize
all new loans for residential housing in the past
month. The summary area includes the loan
statistics as labeled data in the data file. The
format of the report should be appropriate for
the Board of Directors for the First National
Bank.
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BIS 155 iLab 3 Luke Liberty Realty (New) For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com You
are an intern with the Regional Realty
Association and are analyzing the claim made by
Luke Liberty Realty that "we get your price." You
have prepared a spreadsheet that shows data
relating to 3 months' sales by Luke Liberty
Realty. You are going to determine the percent of
asking price for each home sold and analyze the
sales data to determine the true track record of
the company in selling homes for the asking price.
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BIS 155 iLab 4 Student Education Trust Create
Address Labels (New) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com You work with the Student
Education Trust, which allows you to demonstrate
your expertise with Excel. The trust is
sponsoring an auction, and you have received a
list of all donors who have contributed to this
auction. The list was pulled from their database
as a comma-separated text file. You have been
asked to create a letter that will go out to each
of the contributors that will accept their
donation. Tickets to the event will be enclosed.
The letter requires that you provide the
following pieces of information.
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BIS 155 iLab 5 Carina's Pizza Analysis (New) For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   The
owner of Carina's Pizza, wants to evaluate the
profitability of the three restaurants before
expanding further. They are particularly
interested in the comparative results of three
dining categories, dine-in, pickup, and delivery.
Carina has asked for your help in doing this
analysis in return for a small stipend and all
the pizza you can eat. You have already prepared
a template and distributed it to each restaurant
manager, who has entered the sales data for last
year.
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BIS 155 iLab 6 (Week 5) Day Care Center (New) For
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io/Summary Your friend, Adair Deske, is
considering opening a day care center. She has
started compiling her assumptions and putting
together an Income Statement. She has determined
that she must make at least 75,000 profit per
year in order to start the business. She has
asked you to analyze her Income Statement and
help her determine whether it is viable for her
to start this business. You have agreed to help
her complete her Income Statement and to perform
What-If analysis to help her look at her
potential profitability.
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BIS 155 iLab 7 (Week 6) Analysis of a business
Scenario For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Scenario/Summary The
purpose of this exercise is to use the Excel
skills you have acquired thus far, and apply them
to an analysis of
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BIS 155 iLab 8 (Week 7) Descriptive statistics,
formatting, graphs, and regression analysis For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Scena
rio/Summary Hopefully you will find this week's
iLab activity fun and useful. We'll be exploring
the world of statistics from a business
perspective this week, allowing you to practice
your skills with descriptive statistics,
formatting, graphs, and regression analysis.
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BIS 155 Lab 1 of 7 Saddle River Marching Band
(Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   WE HAVE A NEW WEEK 1 LAB
(UPDATED JUNE 2016) WHICH COULD BE FOUND ON THIS
LINK Lab 1 of 7 Saddle River Marching Band (50
Points) Submit your assignment to the Dropbox
located on the silver tab at the top of this
page. L A B O V E R V I E W Scenario/Summary
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BIS 155 Lab 2 of 7 Excel's Advanced Formulas
Functions (Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   WE HAVE A NEW WEEK 2 LAB
(UPDATED JUNE 2016) WHICH COULD BE FOUND ON THIS
LINK BIS 155 Lab 2 of 7 Excels Advanced
Formulas Functions You are an intern at First
National Bank working in the loan department, and
your boss has asked you to prepare the monthly
"New Loan Report" for the Board of Directors.
This analysis report will clearly list and
summarize all new loans for residential housing
in the past month
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BIS 155 Lab 3 of 7 Alice Barr Realty Analysis
(Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   WE HAVE A NEW WEEK 3 LAB
(UPDATED JUNE 2016) WHICH COULD BE FOUND ON THIS
LINK Lab 3 of 7 Alice Barr Realty Analysis You
are an intern with the Regional Realty
Association and are analyzing the claim made by
Alice Barr Realty that "we get your price." You
have prepared a spreadsheet that shows data
relating to 3 months' sales by Alice Barr
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BIS 155 Lab 4 of 7 Create Address Labels
(Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   WE HAVE A NEW WEEK 4 LAB
(UPDATED JUNE 2016) WHICH COULD BE FOUND ON THIS
LINK Create labels for the letters. The XYZ
Corporation wishes to use mailing labels to
address the envelopes. They own 8 1/2 x 11"
sheets of label paper with 1" by 4" labels, which
they purchased from Office Depot.
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BIS 155 Lab 5 of 7 Bruno's Pizza Analysis
(Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   WE HAVE A NEW WEEK 5 LAB
(UPDATED JUNE 2016) WHICH COULD BE FOUND ON THIS
LINK The owner of Bruno's Pizza, Joe Bruno, wants
to evaluate the profitability of his three
restaurants before he expands further. He is
particularly interested in the comparative
results of three dining categories, dine-in,
pickup, and delivery. Joe has asked for your help
in doing this analysis in return for a small
stipend and all the pizza you can eat. You have
already prepared a template and distributed it to
each restaurant manager,
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BIS 155 Lab 6 of 7 Day Care Center (Devry) For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   WE
HAVE A NEW WEEK 5 iLAB 6 (UPDATED JUNE 2016)
WHICH COULD BE FOUND ON THIS LINK Your friend,
Jane Morales, is considering opening a Day Care
Center. She has started compiling her assumptions
and putting together an Income Statement. She has
determined that she must make at least 75,000
profit per year in order to start the business.
She has asked you to analyze her Income Statement
and help her determine whether it is viable for
her to start this business.
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BIS 155 Lab 7 of 7 Access Database (Devry) For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   WE
HAVE A NEW WEEK 5 LAB (UPDATED JUNE 2016) WHICH
COULD BE FOUND ON THIS LINK Hopefully you will
find this week's lab activity fun and useful. If
you have never created a database, you will be
able to tell all of your friends and family that
you are now a database designer. You will walk
through the steps of creating and populating an
Access database to keep a record of items in your
home. The database will have a table, a form, a
query, and a report.
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BIS 155 Week 1 DQ Getting Familiar With Excel For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Excel
was introduced in 1985. Since then, it has
become a standard business tool. Discuss and
explain at least six different (unique) features
of Excel that make it a valuable business
tool. Discuss what type of Excel skills would be
important in todays job market and why. Be
specific.
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BIS 155 Week 1 Quiz (Excel Fundamentals and
Charting) (Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Week 1 Quiz (TCO 1)
Which of the following describes the function of
the Formula Bar (as it applies to Excel 2010)?
(Points 2) (TCO 1) Which of the following
best describes a cell address? (Points 2)
(TCO 1) If you wanted to insert the current date
into an active cell, which of the following would
you use? (Points 2)
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BIS 155 Week 1 Quiz (New) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 1) An Input Area (as it
applies to Excel 2013) is defined as_____. a
range of cells containing results based on the
output area displays the name of a worksheet
within a workbook a range of cells containing
values for variables used in formulas Question 2.
Question (TCO 1) In Excel 2013, a
cell is best described by which of the following?
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BIS 155 Week 1-7 All DQs For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   BIS 155 Week 1
DQ Getting Familiar With Excel BIS 155 Week 2 DQ
Formulas and Functions BIS 155 Week 3 DQ Data
Analysis Tools BIS 155 Week 4 DQ Excel Data
Exchange
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BIS 155 Week 2 DQ Formulas and Functions For more
course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   One of
the benefits of Excel is the ability to use
formulas and functions. Discuss the differences
between formulas and functions. Pick a function
in Excel and discuss how that function is used to
calculate results in your worksheets. Review your
classmates posts to make sure that you're not
duplicating formulas/functions already discussed.
Using the following scenarios, discuss how you
would apply the Excel functions or create a
formula to solve the scenario. Be specific!
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BIS 155 Week 2 Quiz (Excel s Advanced Formulas
Functions) (Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Week 2 Quiz (TCO 2) An
absolute cell reference (Points 2) (TCO 2)
Which of the following best describes a circular
reference? (Points 2) (TCO 2) E2-G4 contains
examples of _____ cell references. (Points
2) (TCO 2) In Excel, an Argument would be best
described by which of the following statements?
(Points 2)
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BIS 155 Week 2 Quiz (New) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 2) In Excel, a relative
cell reference indicates a cell's specific
location and the reference does not change when
you copy the formula. contains both an absolute
and a relative cell reference.
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BIS 155 Week 3 DQ Data Analysis Tools For more
course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Excel
provides many different ways in which to analyze
data. Discuss the different methods by which you
can analyze data in your spreadsheet. That is,
try an Internet search for "data analysis with
excel" or use some of the methods you learned in
this week's lesson. P.S. Please don't use the
same methods. Show your research and creativity
skills.
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BIS 155 Week 3 Quiz (Data Analysis Functions)
(Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Week 3 Quiz (TCO 4) If
there are certain columns of information that are
not needed at a particular time but might be
needed later,_ the unneeded columns to allow
users to focus on only the essential information.
(Points2) (TCO 4) In Excel, the print area is
defined as _____. (Points 2) (TCO 4) When
sorting in Excel, it arranges records in a table
_____. (Points 2)
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BIS 155 Week 3 Quiz (New) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 4) If there are certain
columns of information that are not needed at a
particular time but might be needed later, _____
the unneeded columns to allow users to focus on
only the essential information. hide delete
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BIS 155 Week 4 DQ Excel Data Exchange For more
course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Excel
2013 provides the capability to exchange data
with other applications. Discuss the different
types of ways to exchange data between Excel and
other Microsoft applications. Are there
limitations to the exchange process? Think of
some specific examples.
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BIS 155 Week 4 Quiz (New) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 8) Which of the following
is one of the most common file types imported
into Excel? Text PowerPoint Web
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BIS 155 Week 4 Quiz (Office Integration and Mail
Merge) (Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Week 4 Quiz (TCO 8) Which
of the following is one of the most common file
types imported into Excel? (Points 2) (TCO 8)
Which of the following is NOT a text file?
(Points 2) (TCO 8) Which of the following is
NOT a method for refreshing data? (Points 2)
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BIS 155 Week 5 DQ Data Consolidation and What-If
Analysis For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Discuss and compare the
group summations and What-If analysis
(Consolidation) Excel tools. You may need to look
up (research) the group summations. Under what
circumstances would you use each of these
features? Do they both serve the same purpose, or
is each one used under different scenarios? Give
examples of how each can be used. Please include
your research references in APA format.
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BIS 155 Week 5 Quiz (Consolidating Data and
What-If Analysis) (Devry) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Week 5 Quiz (TCO
5) When multiple worksheets are selected, the
word ________ appears in the title bar. (Points
2) (TCO 5) In Excel, which of the following would
you perform to group adjacent worksheets? (Points
2)
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BIS 155 Week 5 Quiz (New) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO 5) The tabs of grouped
worksheets are displayed with a _____
background. gray yellow blue
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BIS 155 Week 6 Course Project Excel Project
(Devry) For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   Objective The general
instructions for this project can be found in the
Week 6 Lecture material. The Week 6 Lecture
describes the assignment and provides an overview
of the project as a whole. There are no
step-by-steps for the course project. The
following are grading criteria for this project.
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BIS 155 Week 6 DQ Bringing It All Together For
more course tutorials visit www.bis155.com   This
week will be an opportunity to share ideas and
approaches to the Excel course project due this
week. What are some spreadsheet features you will
use to make your spreadsheet professional,
readable, reliable, and repeatable? This is an
opportunity to show your creativity and depth of
understanding of what you have learned up to this
point.
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BIS 155 Week 7 DQ Uses and Applications of
Statistics For more course tutorials
visit www.bis155.com   More than 100 years ago,
H.G. Wells commented that "statistical thinking
will one day be as necessary as the ability to
read and write." If you were to google
"statistics for managers", you will see a list of
all sorts of books on this topic, followed by
thousands of articles and resources.
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BIS 155 Week 8 Final Exam (Devry) For more course
tutorials visit www.bis155.com   (TCO 1) You work
for a local construction firm, "DeVry Engineering
Group" and your supervisor wants to test your
knowledge and skills with Microsoft Excel and has
instructed you to develop a spreadsheet to
calculate weekly payroll for 15 employees with
the following assumptions....... (Points 40)
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