Author royalties excel

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Author Royalties

Project Description:

You manage a publishing company that publishes and sells books to bookstores in Austin. Your assistant prepared a standard six-month royalty statement for one author. You need to insert formulas, format the worksheets, and then prepare royalty statements for other authors.

Instructions:

For the purpose of grading the project you are required to perform the following tasks:

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Instructions

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Start Excel. Download and open the workbook named exploring_e01_grader_h1.xlsx.

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Merge and center the title over the range A1:D1.

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Delete the blank column between the Hardback and Paperback columns.

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Insert a new row between Retail Price and Price to Bookstore. Enter Standard Discount Rate in cell A14, 0.55 in cell B14, and 0.5 in cell C14. Format the range B14:C14 with Percent Style.

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Enter the Percent Returned formula in cell B10. The Percent Returned is the ratio of No. of Returns over the Gross Units Sold. Format the result with Percent Style with one decimal place. Copy the formula in B10 to C10.

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Enter the Price to Bookstore formula in cell B15. This is the price at which you sell the books to the bookstore. It is based on the Retail Price and the Standard Discount Rate. For example, if a book has a $10 retail price and a 55% discount, the price to the bookstore would be $4.50. Copy the formula in cell B15 to cell C15 using the Paste Formulas & Numbering Formatting option.

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Enter the Net Retail Sales formula in cell B16. The net retail sales is the revenue from the net units sold at the retail price. Gross units sold minus the returned units equals net units sold. Copy the formula in cell B16 to cell C16 using the Paste Formulas & Numbering Formatting option.