Exercises

Lecture Calculation Software

You will find the documents in the ISM-Net in the area of lectures (Lecture Calculation
Software) or in drive P: under the name of your lecturer.
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Exercise 1:
Calculate in column E the total amount for each drink, the grand total total, the discount and
the value added tax (in €).

Exercise 2:
a) Calculate the total amount for each type of beer for the individual months of the year.
b) Calculate the total price for each article, the value added tax and the final price (in €).
c) Calculate the total price for each order, the discount and the final price (in €).

Exercise 3:
Create each formula with the copy function for formulas and decide whether it is a relative or
an absolute reference.
a) Calculate in sheet 1 the amount of journals in the first quarter.
b) Calculate in sheet 2 the prices of the journals (in €).

Exercise 4:
a) Adjust the right number format.
b) Adjust the right format für date and time.

Exercise 5:
Calculate the discount and the final price. Adjust the formats according to row 2.

Exercise 6:
The sheets of exercise 6a and 6b should be formatted as follows:
a) The sales per quarter for each sales representative should be 250000 € or more. The
sellers will get a bonus if their sales exceed 300000 € per quarter.
Design the layout of sheet 6a with sales figures in bold, italic and red colour if they are
less than 250000 € and take a yellow filling if they are at least 300000 €.
b) Calculate in column F (Excel sheet 6b) the total sales of the current year for each
seller. The total sales should be highlighted as follows:
If the total sale of a seller in the current year is higher by 25% than in the last period,
the name of the seller should be formatted in bold, white colour with a grey filling.

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Exercise 7:
In sheet 7a you see the order list and the order data. Calculate in column F the total price for
each order (in €). Calculate in sheet exercise 7b for each quarter the total amount of order
quantities and of total prices (in €).

Exercise 8:
In sheet exercise 8a you find the rental prices of agreements from car rental Karl Kabelbruch.
If an employee has entered the customer data, the rental agreement should be automatically
created in sheet exercise 8b.
Define the necessary formulas in sheet exercise 8b so that the rental agreement will be
automatically created.

Exercise 9:
In exercise 9 you see the working hours and lunch breaks of Mister Müller. Calculate in
column G for each day the daily working time in hours and minutes. Finally compute his total
working time in the month of May.

Exercise 10:
a) In sheet exercise 8a you see the data of the order list. Calculate:
Column H: Delivery date resulting from order date and production time
Column I: Total price in €
Column J: 4% discount amount in €
Column K: Final price in €
b) In sheet exercise 10b you see the work schedule with the beginning and the end of
work. Calculate in column F the number of days and in column G the salary for these
days at an hourly rate of 150 €.
c) In sheet exercise 10c you see the work schedule with the beginning and the end of
work. Calculate in column F the number of minutes.

Exercise 11:
Add the missing data in the order list of 2009 in columns G and H as follows:
Column G: Calculate the delivery date. It is determined using the order data plus the
production time. We only produce 5 days a week (Monday to Friday), i.e.
with the exception of Saturday and Sunday as non-working days. Vacation
periods and public holidays are from 23.08.2009 to 27.08.2009
Column H: Calculate the total price (in €).
Determine in cell F4 the number of orders in calendar week 37. It is allowed to use additional
columns for the calculation.

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Exercise 12:
In file "exercise 12.xlsx" you will find a work schedule.
The beginning of work is given in column B, the end of work is in column C and the wage per
day is in column D. Determine in column E the number of working days and in column F the
total wages (in €). Note that working days are only 5 days a week (Monday to Friday.) also
01.11.2009 and 26.12.2009 are non-working days.

Exercise 13:
Evaluate the table sales using the functions you have been taught during the lesson:
1. Determine the smallest value of all sales (in €).
2. Determine the average value of all sales (in €).
3. Determine the fourth-largest value of all sales (in €).
4. Determine the total number of all sales.
5. Determine the ranking of the total revenue of agent Müller.
Note: You will find the sales of Müller in cell D5.
6. Determine how often there are sales in region west.
Enter your calculations in the cells H5 to H10.

Exercise 14:
In file „exercise 14.xlsx“ you will find the delivery data of the years 2008 and 2009.
Determine in cells J6 to J9, how many deliveries there are in each quarter of 2008.
Note: The table contains only data of 2008 and 2009.
Hint: Solve the problem first with function „countif“ and then with function „frequency“.

Exercise 15:
In file „exercise 15.xlsx“ you will find staff data. Evaluate the table in cells I5 to I11 using the
functions you have been taught during the lesson:
1. Determine the fourth-largest value of the salaries (in €).
2. Determine the number of employees from the HR data.
3. Determine the average value of all salaries (in €).
4. Determine the ranking in ascending order of the salary of employee Overbeck.
Note: You will find the salary of Overbeck in cell F7.
5. Determine the number of employees in the sales department.
6. Determine the total amount of all salaries above 5000 € (in €).
7. Determine the total amount of all salaries in the purchasing department (in €).

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Exercise 16:
In file „exercise 16.xlsx“ you will find in sheet exercise 16a a table with time data concerning
the beginning and end of work.
1. Calculate in column G sheet exercise 16a the working time in minutes for each
employee.
2. Calculate in sheet exercise 16b the number of employees and the total of whole
working-minutes for each department. Use the data of sheet exercise 16a to solve the
problem.

Exercise 17:
File „exercise 17.xlsx“ gives you a table with insurance data.
Part A
Evaluate the table insurances in cells L7 to L10 as follows:
1. Determine the smallest annual fee (in €).
2. Calculate how many insurance contracts have been concluded.
3. Calculate how many contracts have been concluded with Allianz.
4. Calculate the total amount of all annual fees concluded with agent Klein (in €).
Part B
Determine how many contracts have been concluded over the following period:
2004
2005
2006
2007
Part C
Determine in column H the provision (in €) for each contract. The provision of an accident
insurance is 8% from the amount of the annual fee. For all other insurances it is 6,5%. The
insurance type is given in column E.
Life insurance = L
Accident insurance = A
Expenses insurance = E
Health insurance = H
Think about a solution if each insurance type has its own amount

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Exercise 18:
File „exercise 18.xlsx“ contains a table with personell data.
Part A
Evaluate the table “personell” in cells L7 to L12 as follows:
1. Determine the value of the smallest salary of all employees in €.
2. Determine the value of the average salary of the staff in €.
3. Determine the date of birth of the third oldest employee.
4. Determine how many employees have been recruited before year 2006.
5. Determine the number of female employees.
6. Determine the total amount of salaries in the warehousing department.
Part B
Determine how many employees have been born over the following period:
before 1950
1950 to 1969
1970 to 1979
1980 and later
Part C
Calculate in column I the bonus (in €) for each employee. Women will get a bonus of 2%
based on their salaries, men will get a bonus of 1.5%.

Exercise 19:
File „exercise 19.xlsx“ contains a work schedule with all working times.
Add the missing data in columns F and G as follows:
Column F: Calculate the number of working days between the beginning of work
(Column D) and the end of work (Column E) (inclusive in each case).
Calculate only the workdays, e.g. excluding Saturday and Sunday. Vacation
and public holidays, which are also no workdays are: 09.05.2009,
20.05.2009 and 30.05.2009
Column G: Determine the salary for the work of each employee. The salary results from
the number of working days multiplied by the base salary per day. The base
salary depends on the salary group of each employee. Salary group T5 gets
320 € per day. All other employees get 180 € per day. The salary group is
coded in the second and third position of the personell number. Format the
salaries in column G in € with 2 decimal places.

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Exercise 20:
Teil A
File „Exercise 20.xlsx“ contains sheet „exercise 20 A“ with article data.
Column B represents 9-digit article numbers. The warehouse information is coded in position
4, 5, 6 and 7 of the article number. Determine in column C the warehouse of each article and
calculate in F5 and F6 how often warehouses A100 and B100 are mentioned.

Teil B
Sheet „exercise 20 B“ contains a list with names of participants. The names are set up as
follows: „Last name comma first name“. Determine in column C the last name and in column
D the first name of each participant.
Example: Grillmeister, Gustl gives Grillmeister Gustl

Teil C
Sheet „exercise 20 C“ contains telephone numbers. Replace each of the last three digits of the
numbers with an "X". In column A all telephone numbers have 6 digits; in column E the
numbers have variable length.
Example: 4775137 gives 4775XXX

Exercise 21:
File „exercise 21.xlsx“ contains personnel data.
Determine in cells I6 to I13 the department for each employee given in column H.

Exercise 22:
File „exercise 22.xlsx“ contains a table with personnel data.
Add the missing data in columns H, I and J as follows:
Column H: Your staff will be rewarded with gifts. All employees, who have been older
than 40 years on January 1, 2009, will get a bunch of flowers. The other
employees will get a CD. Column H represents the gift (Flowers or CD).
Column I: The 10 oldest employees get a bonus of 3% based on their salary. Column I
contains the amount (in €).
Column J: Some employees are granted a special leave. The cells L6 to M19 contain
the list with the personell numbers who will get a special leave and the
numbers of days. Calculate in Column J the days of special leave, if the
employee gets no special leave, you will get the message „#NA“ (not
applicable).

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Exercise 23:
File „exercise 23.xlsx“ contains examination data.
Add the missing data in columns D and H to I as follows:
Column D: Determine the subject (EC Economics or BA Business Administration) of
the students. The subject is coded in the matriculation number. A
matriculation number less than 50000 means subject = „EC“, in the case of
50000 or more the subject is „BA“.
Column H: Determine the total scores. The score is the sum of columnn E to G.
Column I: Determine the grades of each test. The grades are based on the level system
as follows:
Score Grade
0 to 10 points unsatisfactory
11 to 15 points satisfactory
16 to 20 points good
21 to 25 points very good
More than 25 points excellent
Column J: The best 5 students get a commendation, the output is “commendation”
otherwise empty spaces.
Determine in cell H2, how often you find grade „very good“.

Exercise 24:
File „exercise 24.xlsx“ contains examination data.
Add the missing data in columns D and H to I as follows:
Column D: Determine the subject (EC Economics, BA Business Administration, IN
Informatics) of the students. The subject is coded in the matriculation
number. A matriculation number less than 50000 means subject = „EC“,
50000 up to 69999 means “BA”, in the case of 70000 or more the subject is
„IN“.
Column H: Determine the total scores. The score is the weighted sum of columns E to G
as follows: Column E with weighting 50 %, column F with weighting 30 %
and column G with weighting 20 %.
Column I: Determine the grades of each test. The grades are based on the level system
as follows:
Score Grade
0 to 4.9 points unsatisfactory
5 to 6.9 points satisfactory
7 to 7.9 points good
8 to 8.9 points very good

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9 to 10 points excellent
Exercise 25:
File „exercise 25.xlsx“ contains the sheets „exercise 25 input“ and „exercise 25 output“!
Car rental company „Karl Kabelbruch und Söhne GmbH“ wants to organise the rentals with a
spreadsheet program using the following conditions:
1. The rental time is either half a day or full days. A rental time of 3.5 days is not
possible.
2. The minimum rental of a Maybach (Type M-7) is one full day.
3. In the case of a rental time of 7 days or more there will be a discount of 10% for each
type.
The input cells are:
Cell D15: Name of the customer
Cell D16: Street of the customer
Cell D17: Postal code and city of the customer
Cell D19: Type of car
Cell D20: Beginning of lease
Cell D21: Rental term in days
Calculate in the following cells:
Cell E20: If the input in cell D19 is “Maybach”, automatically the text
„Attention! Minimal rental: 1 day!“ should appear. Otherwise no text or
spaces should appear.
Cell D23: Calculation of the return date (format proposal dd.MM.yyyy).
Cell D25: Output of the deposit (in €)
Cell D26: Calculation of the rental price (in €)
Cell D27: The sum of both of these items (in €)
Cell D29: Calculation of the discount amount (in €). If it is not possible to give a
discount there will be a zero.
Cell D30: Output of the total price (in €)

The sheet „output“ contains the rental agreement. The cells with the grey background shall be
automatically filled with formulas and data of the sheet “input”. In cell D13 the type of the car
shall appear (i.e. VW Polo). In cell D22 the rental price including (!) the discount shall appear
automatically. The current date shall appear automatically in cell C33.

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Exercise 26:
File „exercise 26.xlsx“ contains the sheets „exercise 26a prices“ and „exercise 26b order
form“!
You want to improve your pocket money, therefore you have a job with “Pizza-Service
ROMA" in Dortmund. The orders by telephone are entered in an Excel sheet. This order form,
in accordance with the model”, shall be completed and given to the pizza-driver:
Each order is based on the menu (sheet „prices“).
Complete the order form on the basis of the menu. To determine the meals and the prices use
the function “VLOOKUP”.
The calculation of the total price (in €) should be formula-controlled, self-collectors (yes/no)
should get a 20% discount.
Only the fields for „Pizza-No“, „large“, „small“ and self-collector „yes“/“no“ are input cells
The text „discount 20%“ should appear only if it is a “self-collector”, otherwise the output
should be no text or spaces.
Note: The date has to be the current date (system date!). Desired format: Date and time!
To check the correctness of your solution, please see an example of an order form as follows:

Pizza-
Service
ROMA
44227 Dortmund

date:

Pizza-No. large small description Total price

9 2 Ci Polle 13,00 €

30 1 Calzone 6,50 €

43 1 3 American 31,50 €

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Amount 51,00 €
Self-collector? yes
discount 20% 10,20 €
40,80 €
Final price

Exercise 27:
File „exercise 27.xlsx“ contains the sheets „exercise 27-input“ and „exercise 27–output“.
Travel agent „Euro-Sun-Tours GmbH“ wants to organise his travel program with a
spreadsheet solution. The conditions for the travel arrangements are:
1. The base price for an adult is one week half-board off season. Every additional week
will be charged with the price “additional week”.
2. Children pay half-price.
3. 15% surcharge will be applied for the peak season, 10% discount for pre season, both
based on on the off season-price.
4. Airport surcharges are applied both to adults and children
Düsseldorf 0€
Frankfurt 50 €
München 70 €
5. Travel insurance will be invoiced with 2% of the total travel price.
6. Input fields for the insurance data are cells C21 to C29:
Take sheet „exercise 27-output“ to calculate the final price. Column B bases on the data of
sheet „exercise 27-input“. Use cells C23 to C31 to determine all values depending on the
previous data (in €).
Cell C2 shows automatically the current date.
Please see following example to verify your solution:

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EuroSun-Tours GmbH Duisburg, 12.08.2009

Kampstr. 48
47166 Duisburg

We thank you for your interest in our travel program

and offer according to our general terms

Customer Max Mallorca

Hotel Far Niente****

Destination Italy
Season Peak season
Weeks 3
Departure Frankfurt
Travel insurance Yes

Travel services Flight, transfer, half-board

Number Price

Adults (Number) 4 3.600,00 €

Children (Number) 2 900,00 €
Seasonal supplements/levies (Percentage) 15% 675,00 €
Airport surcharges(in euro, e.g. 0, 50 or 70 €) 50,00 € 300,00 €

Travel price 5.475,00 €

Travel insurance 109,50 €

Final price 5.584,50 €

We would be pleased, if you can spend your vacation with us

The team of EuroSun

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Exercise 28:
File „exercise 28.xlsx“ contains sheets „exercise 28-A“ and „exercise 28–B“.
A private transport company situated in Duisburg wants to change to a computer-based
ticketing system.
Automatic fare collection – each travel form Duisburg – will be under the following
conditions:
The fare depends on
- the single distance to destination in KM
- the type of ticket (single or return)
- the tariff (depending on the age of the customer and also on the reduction for pupils and
students)
The distance of ticket type return is twice the distance of a single.
Use sheet „data“ to determine reductions, rates per kilometre, distances and prices.
Calculate in the output area the following information depending on sheet „exercise 28a data“
and the input area:
Name of the customer, tour-number, destination, total km, price, reduction, fare including
reduction.
Furthermore the type of ticket (Single or return), the reason for reduction and the current date
shall be determined formula-controlled.
Please see following example to verify your solution:

Input area

Name Bratbäkker
Tour No.: 11
Tariff 4
A = Single
Type of ticket A B = Return

Output area

Name Bratbäkker 21. September 2009

Tour No. 11
Destination Dresden
Total km 500
Price 50,00 € Single
Reduction 10,00 € Senior 1
Fare 40,00 €

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Exercise 29:
File „exercise 29.xlsx“ contains personell data. Use pivot tables to analyse the values in the
table.
a) Create a pivot table on a new sheet which contains for each department the number of
employees and their totals. The values shall be separated by gender. Rename the sheet
in „exercise 29 a“.
b) Create a pivot table on a new sheet, which contains for each department the average
value of the salaries in € and the overall average. The values shall be separated by
gender. Rename the sheet in „exercise 29 b“.
c) Create a pivot table on a new sheet, which contains for each month (!) the number of
new employees in each department. Give the possibilitiy to separate by gender.
Rename the sheet in „exercise 29 c“.

Exercise 30:
File „exercise 30.xlsx“ contains sales figures. Use pivot tables to analyse the values in the
table.
a) Create a pivot table on a new sheet which contains for each seller the number of sales
and their totals. The values shall be separated by products. Give the possibilitiy to
select with a filter only region “South” and year “2018”. Rename the sheet in
„exercise 30 a“.
b) Create a pivot table on a new sheet, which contains for each seller the sum of the value
of sales in € and their totals separated by product. Use a filter to select only region
“West” and “South”. Rename the sheet in „exercise 30 b“.
c) Create a pivot table on a new sheet, which contains for each month of the second, third
and fourth quarter (!) the average value of sales in € separated by seller and product.
Give the possibilitiy to select with a filter years and regions. Choose region “North”
and “South”. Rename the sheet in „exercise 30 c“.

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