Overview
Master the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to transform data into bottom-line results. For more than a decade, well-known consultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA students the most effective ways to use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. Now this award-winning educator shares the best of his classroom experience in this practical, business-focused guide. Each chapter advances your data analysis and modeling expertise using real-world examples and learn-by-doing exercises. You also get all the book’s problem-and-solution files on CD—for all the practice you need to solve complex problems and work smarter with Excel.
Learn how to solve real business problems with Excel!
- Create best, worst, and most-likely scenarios for sales
- Calculate how long it would take to recoup a project’s startup costs
- Plan personal finances, such as computing loan terms or saving for retirement
- Estimate a product’s demand curve
- Simulate stock performance over a year
- Determine which product mix will yield the greatest profits
- Interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales
- Assign a dollar value to customer loyalty
- Manage inventory and order quantities with precision
- Create customer service queues with short wait times
- Estimate the probabilities of equipment failure
- Model business uncertainties
- Get new perspectives on data with PivotTable dynamic views
- Help predict quarterly revenue, outcomes of sporting events, presidential elections, and more!
On the CD:
- Practice files for all the book’s exercises
- Solutions for problem sets
- Fully searchable eBook
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
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Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWayne Winston has taught Excel analysis and modeling to thousands of analysts, from Microsoft to the Department of Defense. Now, he’s written the definitive guide for working businesspeople: simply the best we’ve ever seen on the subject.
Winston walks you through one challenge and feature at a time, from the simplest (range names) all the way through Black-Scholes options calculations. Using real-world examples, he explains IRR, auditing, sensitivity analysis, goal seek, data validation, PivotTables, demand curves, risk analysis, and plenty more.
Your payoff: a closing chapter on picking your fantasy football team. Don’t laugh: Winston consults with Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks on using Excel to rate basketball players. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.