Introduction

Joey and three friends had a great idea to make money so they opened up a lemonade stand. They watched the local weather to see when those hot summer days would be around and figured those would be the best days to sell their delicious drinks. They needed lemons, cups, ice and sugar and some good old fashioned salesmen skills. Each of the partners in the lemonade stand chipped in some money and they bought enough supplies to make lots of great lemonade. On that first day they sold out and made $10! Wow they thought, that's pretty good. The only problem was they didn't have enough money to buy as many supplies for the next day. They had a great idea but fell short when keeping track of their finances.

Do you think you could run Joey's Lemonade Stand? If you apply the skills you have learned using spreadsheets to keep track of things like expenses and sales you could keep track of things to make a lot of money! You could even make charts and graphs to analyze your sales to figure out even better ways to make money.