Analyzing Business Data With Excel

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created Excel isfamiliar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of usdont know... » 

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created Excel isfamiliar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of usdont know the full extent of what Excel can do mostly because of its recentgrowth in power versatility and complexity. The truth is that there are manyways Excel can help make your job easierbeyond calculating sums and averagesin a standard spreadsheet. Analyzing Business Data with Excel shows you how tosolve realworld business problems by taking Excels data analysis features tothe max. Rather than focusing on individual Excel functions and features thebook keys directly on the needs of business users. Most of the chapters startwith a business problem or question and then show you how to create pointedspreadsheets that address common data analysis issues. Aimed primarily atexperienced Excel users the book doesnt spend much time on the basics. Afterintroducing some necessary general tools it quickly moves into more specificproblem areas such as the following Statistics Pivot tables Workloadforecasting Modeling Measuring quality Monitoring complex systems Queuing Optimizing Importing data If you feel as though youre gettingshortchanged by your overall application of Excel Analyzing Business Data withExcel is just the antidote. It addresses the growing Excel data analysis markethead on. Accountants managers analysts engineers and supervisorsone andallwill learn how to turn Excel functionality into actual solutions for thebusiness problems that confront them. «