Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg -- Other) |  | Author: Wayne L. Winston Ph.D.
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
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MPN: 9780735623965
ISBN: 0735623961
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
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Publication Date: May 16, 2007
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Product Description
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 Office 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--updated and expanded for Excel 2007. Each chapter advances your data analysis and modeling expertise using real-world examples and learn-by-doing exercises. You'll learn how to create best, worst, and most-likely scenarios for sales, estimate a product's demand curve, forecast using trend and seasonality, and determine which product mix will yield the greatest profit. You'll even discover how to interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales and how to assign a dollar value to customer loyalty. You 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.
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 Book is great, online course is better! May 28, 2009
Patricia A. Haldi (Needham, MA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Must read for anyone who models business problems or does statistical analysis.
If you haven't been to one of his seminars, you should check out his online course, Spreadsheet Modeling, developed by Harvard Business School (http://hbdm.harvardbusiness.org/courses).
The course shows you how to create spreadsheet models to analyze both simple and complex problems. It's practical and painless. Includes lots of great videos and is very interactive.
Great Overview of the Power of Excel 2007 January 8, 2008
Hop (Dallas, TX USA)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
I'll start by saying I'm biased: I believe Excel 2007 is awesome. So, this book is a great reference for how to get more out of a great tool. I've been to Wayne's seminars, adn his book is a great substitute for his classroom knowledge and experience. THe examples are highly practical, and his data samples on the included CD make learning how to use the functions a lot easier. Love the basketball and baseball stat examples!
Best, Most Practical Book in the Field August 11, 2008
DJ
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Winston is a guru in his field and it shows in this book, which tackles all the necessary tools you will need "on the job" and does so in a rich, but easy to understand language.
At times, you will feel that the author is coaching you all along, right over your shoulder.
an amzing book that I reference at least once a week, this book is must-own for anyone who wants to model business decisions & stand out among your peers
Very useful book for financial analysis. March 26, 2010
FC (Los Angeles, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I just started my career as a financial analyst, a project manager gave me a pile of condensed training materials which included the excel functions that I would be using most frequently. I bought this Data Analysis & Modeling book 2-3 weeks after my first day of work and I found many of those taught in the book aligned with those on the training materials from my manager. The book has been very useful to me as it has a lot of cases to demonstrate how those functions can be applied.
This book is a book teaching MS Excel, but shaped in a way that focuses more on functions that are useful to financial analysis. It won't make you a financial expert after reading the book -- you need to know the financial concepts like fixed / variable cost, NPV & IRR, stocks & options first, then the tools introduced in the book will help you organize, calculate or present your data.
Pros:
- Clear step by step explanation
- Lots of examples & Exercises included in CD.
Winston is an Excel Wizard! April 6, 2009
D. Watts (Charleston, SC)
A fantastic book for everyone switching over to Excel 2007 or just wanting to learn more about Excel. I highly recommend this book as a great source of information and reference.
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