You have the responsibility for managing software training for Sales, Accounting, and
Operations Department workers in your organization. You have surveyed the workers to get a
feel for the amounts of time spent using various packages, and the results are shown below.
The values shown are the total number of workers in each department and the total weekly
hours the department’s workers spend using each software package. You have been asked to
prepare a spreadsheet summarizing this data and comparing the use of the various packages
across departments.
a. Create a spreadsheet illustrating each application’s average use per department. To do this,
you will first enter the data shown below. Then compute the average weekly spreadsheet use by
dividing spreadsheet hours by the number of Sales workers. Do this for each department.
Repeat these three calculations for both database and presentation use. Round results to the
nearest 1/100th.
b. Create a three-dimensional bar graph illustrating the averages by department and software
package.
c. A committee has been formed to plan software training classes at your company. Prepare a
slide presentation with four slides illustrating your findings. The first slide should serve as an
introduction to the data. The second slide should contain a copy of the original data table
(without the averages). The third slide should contain a copy of the three-dimensional bar graph
from the previous answer. The fourth slide should contain your conclusions regarding key
applications per department. Use professional labels, formatting, and backgrounds.
Department Employees Spreasheet Database Presentations
*Sales 225 410 1,100 650
*Operations 75 710 520 405
*Accounting 30 310 405 50
