This Financial Analyst and MS Excel Test Separates Good From Bad Hires

Where can information about the total interest accrued during the reporting period of one year be found?

Your company sells products to customers in two cities, New York and San Francisco. You have been asked to calculate each product’s retail prices inclusive of sales taxes in these cities.

Specifically, you need to:

• Write formulas to calculate the retail prices, inclusive of sales tax, using the net prices of each product.
• Make sure you reference cells A5 and B5 in your formulas.

Note: Do not use array formulas in your work.

Your task is to download the file ‘TaxInclusive-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute the request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Your company’s accounting department has asked you to give them a list of orders filtered by two periods of time:

• On 'Sheet1', they need orders spanning a two-month period (from the 1st of July, 2018, to the 31st of August, 2018).
• On 'Sheet2', they need all orders for the period before the 1st of July, 2018, and all orders for the period after the 31st of August, 2018.

Your task is to download the file 'TimeFilters-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute this request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Read the statement below and fill in the blanks with the correct answers.

Liquidity ratios indicate an enterprise's ability to pay _________________________ while solvency ratios indicate an enterprise's ability to pay _________________________. If we see that the Quick Ratio is ____________________ over time and the Current Liquidity Ratio is ____________________ over time, we can conclude that the company’s ability to pay short-term debt is probably improving.

DEF Limited, a company that specializes in high-end audio components, is planning to expand into a new market by investing in a new production line. That investment consists of $100,000 received from a five-year loan and $50,000 of DEF’s own cash. DEF’s management has decided to use the straight-line depreciation method over a 10-year period, and the salvage (residual) value of the production line is zero.

What is the increase to DEF’s fixed assets when the production line is put into operation?

Study the balance sheet information for Carlton Corporation in 2015 in the image below.

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What is the value of the Current Asset Turnover Ratio for Carlton Corporation in 2015?

(Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Study the balance sheet for Edampilz in 2017 in the image below.

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What is the value of the Debt Ratio for Edampilz in 2017?

(Round your answer to two decimal places.)

You have been asked to create a column chart and need to make it look the same as the chart provided in the image below.

Your task is to download the ‘SalesComparison-RawData.xlsx’ file and use your spreadsheet knowledge to create the chart shown here. You should attempt to recreate this chart using any columns colors you want, but be sure to:

• Create a clustered column chart.
• Set up the horizontal axis categories and remove horizontal gridlines to match the image.
• Adjust the vertical axis scale and remove vertical gridlines to match the image.
• Add a chart title, vertical axis title, and legend that match those displayed in the image above.
• Ensure your data series are in the correct order.

When you have completed the chart, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Your company just introduced a new pricing policy. In order to further motivate customers to buy your products, your company will give discounts on each order based on the total price of the order. 

Your boss needs you to use the data in the Discounts worksheet to build a formula that calculates the applicable discount percentage according to each order’s total amount. You’ll add that formula to column D and then write a formula for column E that calculates the final order amount including the discount.

Note: Do not use any array formulas in your work.

Your task is to download the file ‘OrderDiscounts-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute all parts of this request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Your company sells tea and coffee to a variety of customers through its sales representatives. The sales manager is preparing for the annual performance reviews in which he reviews the achievements of all the sales representatives as a basis for discussing bonus compensation and raises.

He asks you to prepare some pivot tables to help him prepare for these reviews:

1. For Pivot Table 1, you’ll show Total Sales by Employee and Category.

2. For Pivot Table 2, you’ll show Total Sales by Years, Quarters, and Months per each Employee.

3. Ensure that both pivot tables match the layout shown below.

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Your task is to download the ‘PerformanceReviews-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute all parts of this request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.