A spreadsheet class is being considered for the 2008 Adult Earn-A-Computer Classes.

• Accounting
• Mathematics
• Invoices
• Graphing / Charts, business analysis
• Point out upside/downside of spreadsheets and alternatives
  • Quick, customizable
  • Can be over-used and become the Hammer in the “If all you have is a Hammer, everything looks like a nail” analogy.
  • Can be used as small databases/storage, but usually only stores 64,000 rows of data.
  • Quicken / Microsoft Money
  • Peachtree Accounting
  • Other business / computational software that is more specialized.

• Formulas
• Cells
  • Absolute versus Relative Cell references.
  • Formatting (Important)
  • Data Types (Date, Numeric)
• Worksheets
• Functions
• Graphs/Charts
• Free and Commercial Plug-ins

• Most important part of the program!
• Searching help file

• The instructor could create a simple checkbook register
• Or, stock performance tool
  • Show the myriad of accounting functions, just to give students a starting point for something they might want to do.