Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling, Second Edition

Chapter 41. Consolidating Data

Suppose your company sells products in several regions of the United States. Each region keeps records of the number of units of each product sold during the months of January, February, and March. You might have a question like the following: Is there an easy way to create a "master workbook" that always combines each region’s sales and gives a tally of the total amount of each product sold in the U.S. during each month?

A business analyst often receives worksheets that tally the same information (such as monthly product sales) from different affiliates or regions. To determine the company’s overall profitability, the analyst usually needs to combine or consolidate this information into a single Microsoft Office ...