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.
| A Word from the Author |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction and Overview |
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PART ONE Using Excel Efficiently |
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Selecting Efficiently In Excel |
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14 | (5) |
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Formulas, Functions, Relative and Absolute Addressing |
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28 | (10) |
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PART TWO IF Functions and Text Manipulations |
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63 | (20) |
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65 | (7) |
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72 | (11) |
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PART THREE Statistical Tools |
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85 | (5) |
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90 | (10) |
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Data Analysis---The Excel Easy to Use Statistics Add-in |
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PART FOUR What-if Analysis |
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Naming Cells---for Meaningful Decision Making and Modeling |
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What-if Analysis and Goal Seek |
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Sensitivity Analysis---One- and Two-way Data Tables |
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Using Scroll Bars for Sensitivity Analysis |
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PART FIVE Multi-Page Systems and Lookups |
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Multi-Page Budgets---Going to the Third Dimension |
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161 | (9) |
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PART SIX The Data Menu and Ribbon |
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181 | (9) |
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Data Forms and Features Eliminated in Excel 2007 |
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198 | (6) |
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204 | (5) |
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209 | (10) |
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Data Mining Using Pivot Tables |
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229 | (12) |
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PART SEVEN Excel Financial Tools |
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NPV and IRR---Evaluating Capital Investments |
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243 | (6) |
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Unconventional Financial Functions: XNPV and XIRR |
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249 | (4) |
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Frequently Used Financial Functions |
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253 | (5) |
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258 | (10) |
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Accounting Depreciation Functions |
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268 | (3) |
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PART EIGHT Using the Solver Add-In |
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Reyond the Goal Seek---More than One Changing Cell? Use the Solver |
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The Solver Add-In---Optimizer |
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| Index |
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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.
