Chapter 3, Problem 1P

A sales manager is trying to determine appropriate sales performance bonuses for her team this year. The following table contains the data relevant to determining the bonuses, but it is not easy to read and interpret. Reformat the table to improve readability and to help the sales manager make her decisions about bonuses.

To determine

Provide reformation for the table to improve readability.

Answer to Problem 1P

The table is reformatted as follows:

Salesperson	Total Sales ($)	Average Performance Bonus Previous Years ($)	Customer Accounts	Years with Company
Smith, Michael	325,001	124,99	124	14
Yu, Joe	13,678	240	9	7
Reeves, Bill	452,359	219,87	175	21
Hamilton, Joshua	87,424	7643	28	3
Harper, Derek	87,654	1,250	21	4
Quinn, Dorothy	234,091	14,568	48	9
Graves, Lorrie	379,402	27,981	121	12
Sun, Yi	31,734	673	7	1
Thompson, Nicole	127,845	13,323	17	3

Explanation of Solution

In order to improve readability, the following steps are carried out in the given table:

• Unnecessary gridlines are deleted.
• Bold font is removed except for column titles.
• Text columns are left aligned and numerical columns are right aligned.
• A comma separator is added to the numerical values that represent the dollar.
• Unnecessary decimal digits are removed.

Thus, the table is reformatted to improve readability.