Next Generation Excel: Modeling In Excel For Analysts And Mbas

　　Rutgers professor, Dr. Isaac Gottlieb demonstrates an array of advanced financial and accounting functions in this practical Excel modeling book. He shows how to quickly create models that deliver accurate, relevant information related to efficiency, forecasting, and a host of other business and reporting issues. This book describes how Excel can be used efficiently to help build your spreadsheet for a variety of purposes. As an MBA student, an analyst or an executive you could become a spreadsheets expert.

　　Isaac D. Gottlieb, Ph.D. is the Director of the International Executive MBA at Rutgers University Business School. He has been part of the teaching faculty for over 10 years, and is the recipient of a number of teaching excellence awards. Over the last decade, he has taught how to use Excel-and how to apply it effectively to various business disciplines-to thousands of MBA and Executive MBA students at Rutgers, NYU and Columbia University. He has also instructed Excel application in business settings to over 10,000 participants in corporate seminars, conferences and workshops. The participants are professionals from leading multinational companies as well as small private business corporations. Dr. Gottlieb has an Excel-Tip-Of-The-Month newsletter which goes to over 50,000 recipients.

A Word from the Author xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction and
Overview xv PART ONE Using Excel Efficiently 1
CHAPTER 1 AutoFill 3
CHAPTER 2 Selecting Efficiently In Excel 14
CHAPTER 3 Formulas, Functions, Relative and Absolute Addressing
19
CHAPTER 4 Naming Cells and Ranges 28
CHAPTER 5 Excel Charts 38 PART TWO IF Functions and Text
Manipulations 63
CHAPTER 6 IF Functions 65
CHAPTER 7 Text Manipulation 72 PART THREE Statistical Tools
83
CHAPTER 8 Descriptive Statistics 85
CHAPTER 9 Frequency Distributions 90
CHAPTER 10 Statistical Regression 100
CHAPTER 11 Data Analysis-The Excel Easy to Use Statistics Add-in
109 PART FOUR What-if Analysis 119
CHAPTER 12 Naming Cells-for Meaningful Decision Making and Modeling
121
CHAPTER 13 What-if Analysis and Goal Seek 129
CHAPTER 14 Sensitivity Analysis-One- and Two-way Data Tables
136
CHAPTER 15 Using Scroll Bars for Sensitivity Analysis 149 PART FIVE
Multi-Page Systems and Lookups 159
CHAPTER 16 Multi-Page Budgets-Going to the Third Dimension
161
CHAPTER 17 Lookup Tables 170 PART SIX The Data Menu and Ribbon
179
CHAPTER 18 Sorting Data 181
CHAPTER 19 AutoFilter 190
CHAPTER 20 Data Forms and Features Eliminated in Excel 2007
198
CHAPTER 21 Group and Outline Data 204
CHAPTER 22 Subtotals 209
CHAPTER 23 Pivot Tables 219
CHAPTER 24 Data Mining Using Pivot Tables 229 PART SEVEN Excel
Financial Tools 241
CHAPTER 25 NPV and IRR-Evaluating Capital Investments 243
CHAPTER 26 Unconventional Financial Functions: XNPV and XIRR
249
CHAPTER 27 Frequently Used Financial Functions 253
CHAPTER 28 Amortization Tables 258
CHAPTER 29 Accounting Depreciation Functions 268 PART EIGHT Using
the Solver Add-In 271
CHAPTER 30 Beyond the Goal Seek-More than One Changing Cell? Use
the Solver 273
CHAPTER 31 The Solver Add-In-Optimizer 282 Index 291