Charting cumulative date-series data, that isn't in order in a worksheet

So, I have sales folks entering sales opportunities into worksheets, but they are NOT in date order.
I wish to create a chart the shows the cumulative sales totals, accumulating them in date order.
I know how to do this IF they sales data is entered in date order.
But if is not, I must either re-enter it chronologically, or sort the worksheet chronologically, and then create a column that performs the cumulative values.
However, this approach means I must re-sort the values EVERY time the sales person enters his sales opportunities.
the Excel Charts allow the use of a time axis that will automatically sort and plot values in chronological order. But I need the charting to perform the cumulative function as well.
Ideas?

Hi,
Based on your required, I agree with Mr. trip_to_Tokyo's suggestion. We can use Pivot table/Chart and then group the data.
Here is the detailed information, we can refer to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel-help/group-or-ungroup-data-in-a-pivottable-report-HA102840048.aspx
http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/11/17/group-dates-in-pivot-tables/
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