How to compose sales table for collections of items that are sold separately? - excel

Question

I want to compose sales table for purchased and sold items to see total profit. It's easy to do when items are purchased and sold individually or as a lot. But how to handle situation when one buys collection of items and sells them one by one. For example, I buy a collection (C) of a hammer and a screwdriver and sell tools separately. If I would enter data into simple table as in the image, I would get wrong profit result.
When there are only two items, I could divide their purchase price randomly, but when there are many items and not all of them are yet sold, I can't easily see if this collection already made profit or not.
I expect correct output of profit. In this case collection cost was 10 and selling price of all collection items was 13. Thus it should show profit of 3, not loss of -7. I was thinking of adding 2 new column, like IsCollection, CollectionID. Then derive a formula, which would use either simple subtraction or would check price of a whole collection and subtract it from the sum of items that belong to that collection. Deriving such formula is another question... But maybe there is an easier way of accomplishing the same

Answer 1

I added a column COLLECTION to identify item who belong to a collection.
Then I used SUMIF to sum sell price for items which belong at the same collection.
Then I used IF in Profit column to use summed sell price or single sell price.
You need to define in some formula a range of cell (see below).
Problem: you can't add profit values to obtain Total profit.
I used opencalc (but it should be almost the same in Excel).
Content of
SUM_COLL (row2):
=SUMIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A2;$D$1:$D$22)
SUM_COLL (row3):
=SUMIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A3;$D$1:$D$22)
and so on.
Profit (row2):
=IF(A2<>"";E2-C2;D2-C2)
Profit (row3):
=IF(A3<>"";E3-C3;D3-C3)
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| COLLECTION | Item name | Purch Price | Sell Price | SUM_COLL | Profit |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | A | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | B | 2 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.1 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| C | C1 | 10 | 7 | 27 | 17 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| C | C2 | 10 | 6 | 27 | 17 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| D | D1 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 16 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | E | 8 | 12 | 0 | 4 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| C | C3 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 17 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| D | D2 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 16 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+
Update:
I added two more column to make Profit summable:
COUNT_COLL (row2):
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A2)
COUNT_COLL (row3):
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$22;"="&A3)
Profit_SUMMABLE (row2)
=IF(A2<>"";(E2-C2)/G2;D2-C2)
Profit_SUMMABLE (row3)
=IF(A3<>"";(E3-C3)/G3;D3-C3)
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| COLLECTION | Item name | Purch Price | Sell Price | SUM_COLL | Profit | COUNT_COLL | Profit_SUMMABLE |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | A | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | B | 2 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| C | C1 | 10 | 7 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 5.6666666667 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| C | C2 | 10 | 6 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 5.6666666667 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| D | D1 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 8 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | E | 8 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| C | C3 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 5.6666666667 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| D | D2 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 8 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
| | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+
...
...
| TOTAL | | | | | 87.6 | | 37.6 |
+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+----------+--------+------------+-----------------+