Business Analysis with Microsoft® Excel®

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?

Category Spreadsheets

Covers Applicable for versions of Microsoft Excel 97 to 2007

User Level Intermediate–Advanced

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

quote from the front cover

“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

Customer Reviews:

Dissatisfaction rating

By Mizuno - May 29, 2006

I'm generally disappointed at what the book seems to promise and what it delivers. My take on the book is that it is not thorough enough, and topped with a number of typos and reference errors. I find that several examples and references are hard to follow. Perhaps expanding on the explanation on the examples would help. I would also recommend adding a CD for examples. I wouldn't mind paying more to be able to follow the concepts and fully understand them. Afterall, this is business analysis with "Microsoft Excel." There's just no "Excel", just text. Trying to go through this book is more like reading a cliff note version of a "real" book (again, hard to follow leading to discouragement and disappointment. If you're patient, you can find some values, no doubt, just be prepared to spend some time more than you would expect, and to reference a couple more books for validation/clarification of concepts discussed in this book.

Well-rounded Book for Aspiring Business Analysts

By Robert DeLaMartre - May 25, 2002

Carlberg puts together a very enlightening book with both high level and detailed information. Starting with an introduction to each topic, he then gets into progressively detailed explanations and examples. The beauty of this approach, of course, is that the reader can pursue however much he or she wants to learn about a particular subject.For the "old hands at BA", beware, this is not an all-encompassing tome on the subject. It is, however, a very good introduction into basic and intermediate analysis of business statistics.

Perfect for beginer in accountancy

By siourock "siourock" - January 31, 2003

I have BA in Busines administration and now i start a course in accountancy.
I bought this book to refresh my knowledge in accountancy and because i use Excel almost for everything.
I think that this book is ideal for everyone who want to get an idea of what is accountancy and general business economics. Is very analytical and interpretive so it is understood for everyone who has not any previous experience in Business economics.
Although is very interpretive in acoounting - economic theory, I belive that substantial prior experience in Excel is required.I'm not sure but I think that the examples of excel applications sometimes have some wrongs. i.e. The example on text refers to B4 cell, but indeed the information that refer to, are in C4 cell if you look better in a picture.

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