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Microsoft� Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling

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ISBN-10: 0735619018

ISBN-13: 9780735619012

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Wayne L. Winston

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Now you can apply the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to analyze and transform data into bottom line results. For more than 10 years, well- known consultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA candidates the most effective ways to use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. This practical, business-focused guide delivers the best of Winston's classroom experience to you-from asset allocation modeling to estimating exponential growth, forecasting sales, optimizing portfolios, and other critical functions. You also get all the book's sample files on CD- ROM-ready for use in your own work.
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 1/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Wayne L. Winston is a professor of Decision Sciences at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and the recipient of more than 30 teaching awards. For the past 20 years, Wayne has also taught Fortune 500 companies how to use Excel to make smarter business decisions. He has written 15 books on Excel, management science, and mathematics in sports.

Introduction
Range Names
Natural Language Range Names
Lookup Functions
The INDEX Function
The MATCH Function
Text Functions
Dates and Date Functions
Evaluating Investments with Net Present Value Criteria
Internal Rate of Return
Functions for Personal Financial Decisions: The PV, FV, PMT, PPMT, and IPMT Functions
Circular References
IF Statements
The Paste Special Command
The Auditing Tool
Sensitivity Analysis with Data Tables
The Goal Seek Command
Using the Scenario Manager for Sensitivity Analysis
Creating and Using Spinners for Sensitivity Analysis
The COUNTIF, COUNT, COUNTA, and COUNTBLANK Functions
The SUMIF Function
The OFFSET Function
The INDIRECT Function
Conditional Formatting
An Introduction to Optimization with the Excel Solver
Using Solver to Determine the Optimal Product Mix
Using Solver to Solve Transportation or Distribution Problems
Using Solver to Schedule Your Workforce
Using Solver for Capital Budgeting
Using Solver for Financial Planning
Using Solver to Rate Sports Teams
Importing Text or Microsoft Word Data into Excel
Importing Data from the Web into Excel
Validating Data
Summarizing Data with Histograms
Summarizing Data with Descriptive Statistics
Using PivotTables to Describe Data
Summarizing Data with Database Statistical Functions
Filtering Data
Consolidating Data
Creating Subtotals
Estimating Straight Line Relationships
Modeling Exponential Growth
The Power Curve
Using Correlations to Summarize Relationships
Introduction to Multiple Regression
Incorporating Qualitative Factors into Multiple Regression
Modeling Nonlinearities and Interactions
Analysis of Variance: One-Way ANOVA
Randomized Blocks and Two-Way ANOVA
Using Moving Averages to Understand Time Series
Forecasting with Moving Averages
Forecasting in the Presence of Special Events
An Introduction to Random Variables
The Binomial and Hypergeometric Random Variables
The Poisson and Exponential Random Variable
The Normal Random Variable
Weibull and Beta Distributions: Modeling Machine Life and Duration of a Project
Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation
Calculating an Optimal Bid
Simulating Stock Prices and Asset Allocation Modeling
Fun and Games: Simulating Gambling and Sporting Event Probabilities
Using Resampling to Analyze Data
Pricing Stock Options
Determining Customer Value
The Economic Order Quantity Inventory Model
Determining the Reorder Point: How Low Should I Let My Inventory Level Go Before I Reorder?
Queuing Theory: The Mathematics of Waiting in Line
Estimating a Demand Curve
Pricing Products with Tie-ins
Pricing Products Using Subjectively Determined Demand
Nonlinear Pricing
Array Formulas and Functions
Picking Your Fantasy Football Team
Index