Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel (3rd Edition)

Product Description

Whether you own a small business or work for a large corporation–whether you are looking for help making financial and business decisions–this book is for you. Business Analysis with Microsoft® Excel, Third Edition, provides in-depth information that will streamline your use of the tools within Excel. Professional advice and guidance from an experienced author provide the answers to your most pressing questions:

• What’s the relationship between my cost of goods sold and my inventory?
• How do I get Excel to keep these values up-to-date on my income statement and my balance sheet?
• I have to track service quality over time. How can I automate that using Excel charts?
• How can I forecast future demand for my products, based on prior sales results?
• What’s the difference between financial leverage and operating leverage? How do I calculate them using my financial records?
• I need to project my financials for next year. Does Excel have a tool for that? What do I need to know to use it effectively?
• How do I do all these things using the new Ribbon in Excel 2007?
• What are the best ways to automate a connection between Excel and an external database?

More great stuff… is just a click away!

• Sample journals and ledgers; examples of trial balances, income statements, and balance sheets
• Custom functions, such as FIFO and LIFO, for inventory management
• VBA routines that automate the creation of forecasts, quality control charts, and sales and marketing analysis
• Statistical process control charts: P charts, X-and-S charts, X-and-MR charts
• Forecasting tools: Seasonal smoothing and ARIMA model identification

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Review

“Conrad takes the time to give the readers an easy-to-follow step-by-step understanding of the material, accompanied by clear illustrations, making this an excellent book to learn the material. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to gain more expertise in using and manipulating business data from within Excel."
Bob Umlas, Excel MVP

Carlberg develops each concept within the context of a realistic business case, using Excel spreadsheets as examples.
PC World, May, 1997 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About Conrad Carlberg

Conrad Carlberg is president of Network Control Systems, Inc., a software-development and consulting firm that specializes in statistical and database applications. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics and is a many-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award. He lives near San Diego.

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