MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000: The Essential Excel Reference for Business Professionals with Cdrom
Stephen Lewis Nelson · 1999
From the Publisher: Best-selling author Stephen L. Nelson has written what is sure to become the essential Excel reference for business professionals. The MBA' s Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 is the only book that specifically describes how business people can more easily, more productively, and more powerfully use Microsoft Excel 2000 in business. The book's QuickPrimersT, for example, move Excel users to professional proficiency in all Excel skill categories providing friendly help on all the basics, including building simple worksheets and creating charts for both analysis and presentation. Once someone is comfortable with Excel, the MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 moves beyond the basics, providing easy-to-understand, jargon-free help on using all of Excel's business tools including PivotTables, PivotCharts, Solver, BackSolver, and Small Business Manager. Step-by-step instructions make even Excel's most powerful tools easy to use. Unique among Excel books but essential for business people, the MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 describes how to use Excel's often poorly or undocumented tools for statistical analysis, financial calculations, sharing corporate data, and optimization modeling. And, whenever appropriate, these discussions start with EasyRefreshersT that let the reader update old or acquire new core business skills. Written for people who want to use Excel as a business tool, the MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 works for all business users: MBA students, MBA graduates, Excel users with undergraduate degrees in business or a related field-and for anyone else who's serious about using Excel to power better business decisions. The MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2000 also comes with a companion CD that supplies starter Excel workbooks for business planning, profit-volume-cost analysis, break-even calculations, capital investment budgeting, asset depreciation, and debt amortization so readers get a head start on creating their own workbooks. The CD also supplies samples of all the workbooks discussed in the book. About the Author: With more than 3,000,000 books sold in English, Stephen L. Nelson, a certified public accountant, is arguably the best-selling author writing about using computers in business. Formerly a senior consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co., formerly the Finance columnist for Inc. Magazine, Nelson's books have been translated into more than a dozen other languages. His recent best sellers include Quicken 2000 for Dummies and QuickBooks 99 for Dummies (both from IDG Books), and Outlook 2000 At A Glance and FrontPage 2000 At A Glance (both from Microsoft Press). Nelson is also the author of the popular Smart Guide series of computer books, published by Barnes & Noble Books, and available only at Barnes & Noble!