Features and uses of two Spreadsheet examples

Alexander Mothersole
ID 70091194

UNIT 9 ASSIGNMENT 1 TASK 1

Presentation Aim Review of two different kinds of
spreadsheets

Explain how spreadsheets are used for two different activities,

and how the features are used in spreadsheets.
Review how the features in the spreadsheets could improve,
Productivity, accuracy and usability
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the spreadsheets. .
 Shoeshock spreadsheet-
summary of use
Maintain employee salary records
Perform calculations and help analyse data
Support decision making
Present information clearly and effectively
Improve productivity and accuracy
Tools- Shoeshock

Calculation
Formula
Formatting
Conditional formatting
Repositioning data
 Features that improve productivity
for Shoeshock

Finding and replacing data

Adding and naming worksheets
Linking Worksheets
Relative and absolute dressing
Naming cells
Count Statistical management function
Comments
Data validation
Summary of use of cost modelling
Spreadsheet.
To show how much each Lego brick cost
It identifies the Lego parts for custom Lego design
it is a bill for the materials
Perform calculations and help analyse data
Present information clearly and effectively
Support decision making
Improve productivity and accuracy
Tools- Cost Modelling

Calculation
Formula
Formatting
Repositioning data
Features that improve
productivity of cost modelling
Named worksheets
Naming cells
Count Statistical management function
Strengths of the Shoeshock
spreadsheet
Its easy to understand.
You can re calculate things very quickly by changing one cell E.g.
Overtime Rate.
By linking worksheets it makes it simpler and easier to read
because calculations to do for example with Overtime are on a
different worksheet to the main one.
By using the Yes or No toggle on Overtime, It makes it very easy
to manage people Pay
Weaknesses of the shoeshock
spreadsheet
The way its done you need to make a new worksheet every
month which is a bit difficult.
For overtime it will be better to make columns for each month. So
you dont need to make another spreadsheet.
The Yes or no Toggle for overtime would need to be changed if
someone started getting overtime as a later date. Otherwise it
would change the calculations for previous months .
Strengths of the Cost modelling
spreadsheet
Its very and clean to understand and nice to look at.
Very Easy to update the quantity cost.
Youve got a summary at the top which makes it easy to read for
management reporting.
Its got a picture of each product item which will avoid mistakes.
It uses name cells to reduces errors.
Weaknesses of the cost modelling
spreadsheet
You cannot see any obvious weakness for a cost modelling
spreadsheet.
The only weaknesses is it would take a long to make the
spreadsheet look this attractive. Whereas what it does is very
simple. They probably made it like this to avoid errors in inputting
data.