Microsoft� Office Excel� 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg -- Other) - Softcover

Winston, Wayne L.

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9780735623965: Microsoft� Office Excel� 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg -- Other)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735623961 ISBN 13: 9780735623965

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2007

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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

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Key Book Benefits:

-Teaches the best ways to use Excel for data analysis and decision making.

-Features real-world scenarios in each chapter, and then shows you how to use Excel to create an effective solution.

-Delivers hundreds of problem-and-solution examples.

-Covers topics including asset allocation modeling; creating histograms, elasticity and demand curves; estimating exponential growth; forecasting sales; optimizing bidding strategies and portfolios; and more!

-Includes a CD with sample files used in the book.

About the Author:

Wayne L. Winston is a professor of Decision Sciences at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and has earned numerous MBA teaching awards. For 20+ years, he has taught clients at Fortune 500 companies how to use Excel to make smarter business decisions. Wayne and his business partner Jeff Sagarin developed the player-statistics tracking and rating system used by the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team. He is also a two time Jeopardy! Champion.

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