Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Bpg -- Other) | 
 enlarge | Author: Wayne L. Winston
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 624
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.7
MPN: 9780735623965
ISBN: 0735623961
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
EAN: 9780735623965
ASIN: 0735623961
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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 Not Useful November 19, 2008
Tango Static (San Jose, CA)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought the book to do a spreadsheet for a new business. The author assumes I am already well versed in Excel, but at this point, I hadn't used Excel for about 6 years. Maybe I should not have purchased this book. I would think that business modeling allows one to do a spread sheet and do sensitivity analysis, as to which items are major cost drivers. This could be obvious by inspection.
The author gets into present value calculations and internal rate of return but there is better software for this. He includes a disk but it wasn't obvious to me which files to open. I found the book hard to follow.
This book would be better used in a finance class with an instructor. It's not for the user who needs some quick help with Excel.
 Best, Most Practical Book in the Field August 11, 2008
DJ
4 out of 5 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
Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling January 24, 2008
Bob Clark (Oregon)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Huge improvement over past Excel manuals because this financial analyst can actually understand the steps being described.
Great Overview of the Power of Excel 2007 January 8, 2008
Hop (Dallas, TX USA)
9 out of 11 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!
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