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Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling
Master the analysis and business modeling techniques that help you transform your data into bottom-line results. Award-winning business professor and corporate consultant Wayne Winston shares the best of his real-world experience in this practical guide—now updated for Excel 2007. Use Wayne’s proven practices and hands-on exercises to help you work smarter, make better decisions, and gain the competitive edge.
Solve real-world business problems with Excel 2007!
Maximize profits—determine NPV, optimize your product mix, calculate ROI
Create best, worst, and most-likely case scenarios for sales
Analyze investment performance and help minimize risk
Track your personal finances, calculate loan terms, and plan for retirement
Use trend and seasonality to forecast revenue
Estimate a product’s demand curve and manage inventory with precision Interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales
Assign a dollar value to customer loyalty
Solve work scheduling problems and shorten wait times for customer service queues
PLUS—predict outcomes of sporting events, presidential elections, and more!
CD Includes:
Sample files from each chapter
Problem-and-solution sets—build your expertise!
Fully searchable eBook
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
Solve real-world business problems with Excel 2007!
Maximize profits—determine NPV, optimize your product mix, calculate ROI
Create best, worst, and most-likely case scenarios for sales
Analyze investment performance and help minimize risk
Track your personal finances, calculate loan terms, and plan for retirement
Use trend and seasonality to forecast revenue
Estimate a product’s demand curve and manage inventory with precision Interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales
Assign a dollar value to customer loyalty
Solve work scheduling problems and shorten wait times for customer service queues
PLUS—predict outcomes of sporting events, presidential elections, and more!
CD Includes:
Sample files from each chapter
Problem-and-solution sets—build your expertise!
Fully searchable eBook
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
- GenresBusiness
624 pages, Paperback
First published May 16, 2007
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April 9, 2012
Such an excellent resource for Excel, specifically data analysis. So much of Excel is made up of clever formulas and features to enable you to cut down on the old-style drag and compute way of looking at data. And given the size of data sets now, you need to know those features more than ever.
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