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Wayne L. Winston (Author)

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Product details

Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS; 1 edition (1 Jan 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0735619018
ISBN-13: 978-0735619012
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.6 x 3.7 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 180,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #4 in Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft Windows > Applications > Excel > Excel & Business
- #13 in Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft Windows > Applications > Excel > Excel & Modelling

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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 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. Each chapter advances your data analysis and modeling expertise using real-world examples and learn-by-doing exercises. You also 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.

Learn how to solve real business problems with Excel!

Create best, worst, and most-likely scenarios for sales
Calculate how long it would take to recoup a project’s startup costs
Plan personal finances, such as computing loan terms or saving for retirement
Estimate a product’s demand curve
Simulate stock performance over a year
Determine which product mix will yield the greatest profits
Interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales
Assign a dollar value to customer loyalty
Manage inventory and order quantities with precision
Create customer service queues with short wait times
Estimate the probabilities of equipment failure
Model business uncertainties
Get new perspectives on data with PivotTable dynamic views
Help predict quarterly revenue, outcomes of sporting events, presidential elections, and more!

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Practice files for all the book’s exercises
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About the Author: Wayne L. Winston teaches decision sciences at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. For more than 10 years he has taught business analysts how to use Excel to make better decisions. His clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Eli Lilly and Company; Ford Motor Company; General Motors Corporation; Intel Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; Owens Corning; Pfizer, Inc.; Proctor & Gamble; the U.S. Army; and the U.S. Department of Defense. Wayne and business partner Jeff Sagarin developed a player rating system that the Dallas Mavericks use to identify statistical trends and evaluate players. Wayne is also a two-time Jeopardy! Champion. Product Description: Now you can apply the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to analyze and transform data into bottom line results. For more than 10 years, well-known consultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA candidates the most effective ways to use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. This practical, business-focused guide delivers the best of Winston's classroom experience to you in 70+ concise chapters, organized by real-world scenarios. Quickly find and apply exactly the information you need to solve a specific business problem-from asset allocation modeling to estimating exponential growth, forecasting sales, optimizing portfolios, and other critical functions. You also get all the book's sample files on CD-ROM-ready for use in your own work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good tool to make life easier at work, 21 Mar 2009

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This book and its CD companion contain real-life examples and easy to follow steps to show how to make the most of MS Excel in everyday office situations where you have to process data and extract meaning to feed into business processes. Great tool for modelling and data analysis, with applications in finance, marketing, and operations.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, 14 May 2009

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Great Book if you know how to use excel doesnt teach you from basic but every page worth reading, cd is also included containing spreadsheets with excercises and solution. Would definately recommend to all Managers, Analysts & Project Managers

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