LAB: Intelligent Support Systems (DSS)
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Lab 6: Scenarios in MS. Excel
What are Scenarios?
A scenario is a named what-if model that includes variable cells linked together
by one or more formulas. Before you create a scenario, you must design your
worksheet so that it contains at least one formula that’s dependent on cells that
can be fed different values. Scenarios come under the heading of "What-If
Analysis" in Excel.
Question 1: Coffee Sales.
Open the workbook Coffee Sales.xlsx and do the following. This is a coffee shop
that is interested in evaluating the best case, worst case and the original
scenario.
a- Create the formula total revenue = the addition of all Subtotals.
b- Save the current figures as “Original Scenario”
c- Name the variables and use the data provided below to create these
scenarios
d- Create a summary report of your scenarios
Variable
Regular coffee cups
Premium coffee cups
Premium mocha cups
You’re Comments:
Best Case
150
225
125
Worst Case
50
40
30
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Question 2: The Family Budget
You want to create a family budget. You can then make changes to individual
amounts, like food, clothes, or fuel, and see how these changes affect your
overall budget.
a- Create two simple formulas, one to sum the total spending and another to
calculate the income left after paying for the outgoings.
b- Save the current figures as “original Scenario”
c- Name the variables and create two more scenarios using the table below:
Variable
Food
Clothes
Phone Bill
Budget 1
180
100
25
Budget 2
140
120
30
d- Create a summary report.
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Question3: Managing Expenses
A company is trying to calculate its required budget by totaling their expenses.
They are trying to reduce their expense budget by checking two different
scenarios.
a- Save the current figures as “Original Scenario”
b- Name the variables and create the following two scenarios
- Scenario 1: We move to a smaller location, rent will be reduced by %20
and we reduce our Office Personnel and give it a budget of $7,000
- Scenario 2: We remain in this location but reduce our Office Personnel
into half.
c- Create a summary report
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