Get a result based on several different conditions

Hi all,

New to the forum and in need of a bit of help. Friend of mine is in here regularly looking for assistance and tells me this is the best excel forum around. Thought I would put it to the test with a problem that is doing my head in.

The following is a table which shows a salesmans sales. He or she has sold to 8 customers.

What I need to do is show in the commission column how much they should get paid for the additional products based on this criteria.

1. If the penetration is equal to or over 41%, and he has sold the additional product for max profit of 250 then he should get £40

2. If the penetration is less than 41%, and he has sold the additional product for max profit of 250 then he should get £25

3. If he hasnt sold the product for full amount then he gets 10% of the profit, regardless of the penetration





CUSTOMER...........UNIT...........ADDITIONAL PROFIT........COMMISSION

JOHN..................... 1 ....................
MARY.................... 1 .....................250
BILLY.................... 1 .................... 250
BOB...................... 1 .....................150
WILL..................... 1 .....................200
MANDY.................. 1
JAMES................... 1
GRAHAM................. 1

TOTAL.................. 8....................... 4


ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS PENETRATION 50.00%


Hope that makes sense. I have tried all sorts of formula and just cant get it quite right, please someone put me out of my misery

Thanks in anticipation

Quizzle

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See attached.

Formula used in D3:

=IF(C3>=250,LOOKUP($B$15,{0,0.41},{25,40}),C3*10%)

copied down..

where B15 contains penetration percentage.

Have a look at LOOKUP in Excel Help files... it will help explain the basic use of the formula.

In my example, I physically entered the arrays (which have to be enclosed in the curly brackets) instead of using ranges as per the Excel help file samples.

The Lookup() function looks up a value in a range of sorted (ascending) values and finds a match when it finds the largest value that is smaller than or equal to the lookup value.. it returns the corresponding item in the results array.

So for your example if looks for the value in B15 within the array {0,.41}. If the value in B15 is less than 0.41, then it will return 25 because 0 is the largest value that is less than or equal to the value in B15. If B15 is 0.41 or higher it will return 40, since .41 will be the largest value in the lookup array that is less than or equal to the value in B15.

The IF() parts simply tests the conditions... so it checks first if C3>250.. if it is, it performs the LOOKUP(), otherwise it simply multiplies the corresponding profit in column C by 10%

Hope that helps.

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