Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling

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• Hands-on, scenario-focused, and 100% practical
• Updated for Excel 2016’s newest functionality: new charts, FORECAST capability, PowerMap, and more
• New spreadsheet models help beginner-to-intermediate Excel users move to more advanced techniques
• Adds 150+ new problems with solutions

• Hands-on, scenario-focused, and 100% practical
• Updated for Excel 2016’s newest functionality: new charts, FORECAST capability, PowerMap, and more
• New spreadsheet models help beginner-to-intermediate Excel users move to more advanced techniques
• Adds 150+ new problems with solutions

Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel’s newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. This edition adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a chapter of basic spreadsheet models to make sure you’re fully up to speed.

Solve real business problems with Excel—and build your competitive advantage

• Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics
• Summarize data by using PivotTables and Descriptive Statistics
• Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing
• Master advanced functions such as OFFSET and INDIRECT
• Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions
• Leverage the new charts in Excel 2016 (including box and whisker and waterfall charts)
• Make charts more effective by using Power View
• Tame complex optimizations by using Excel Solver
• Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models
• Work with the AGGREGATE function and table slicers
• Create PivotTables from data in different worksheets or workbooks
• Learn about basic probability and Bayes’ Theorem
• Automate repetitive tasks by using macros

• Chapter 1 Basic spreadsheet modeling                                   
• Chapter 2 Range names                                                       
• Chapter 3 Lookup functions                                                  
• Chapter 4 The INDEX function
• Chapter 5 The MATCH function                                            
• Chapter 6 Text functions                                                     
• Chapter 7 Dates and date functions
• Chapter 8 Evaluating investment by using net present value criteria      
• Chapter 9 Internal rate of return                                          
• Chapter 10 More Excel financial functions                              
• Chapter 11 Circular references                                            
• Chapter 12 IF statements                                                    
• Chapter 13 Time and time functions                                     
• Chapter 14 The Paste Special command                   

This edition has been fully updated for Excel 2016’s latest innovations, including new charts, the FORECAST capabilities, and Power Map. It adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a new first chapter to help inexperienced Excel users transition to more advanced techniques. \

Chapters have been added on macros and on sensitivity analysis with more than two variables. This edition also adds features skipped in previous editions, including UNICODE, Using AGGREGATE function with Table Slicers, creating many PivotTables from a filter, HYPERLINKS, and ISFORMULA.

WAYNE L. WINSTON is Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and Visiting Professor of Decision and Information Sciences at University of Houston Bauer College of Business. He has earned numerous MBA teaching awards. For more than 20 years, he has taught clients at Fortune 500 companies, various accounting groups, the US Navy, and the US Army 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.

Students will master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps readers use Excel’s newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. This edition adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a chapter of basic spreadsheet models to make sure readers are fully up to speed.

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