Spreadsheet Modeling for Business Decisions w/St CD, @RISK and Crystal Ball Access Cards

by Kros, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780077212797
• ISBN10: 0077212797
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-10
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

Spreadsheet Modeling for Business Decisions focuses on five fundamental topics of business decision modeling; emphasizing the effective communication of results to the appropriate business decision maker. The topics include spreadsheet modeling, data management and modeling, simulation and linear regression modeling, and decision making under uncertainty. The text strives to educate managers in the process of becoming more effective and efficient problem solvers by providing the most important and useful topics within business decision models while at the same time preparing students to apply those topics to real-world problems, to integrate the use of common software packages into their analysis and solutions, and to prepare written and verbal conclusions from that analysis.

Table of Contents

Brief Contents Preface

The Art and Science of Becoming a More Effective and Efficient Problem Solver

Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling

Probability and Statistics—A Foundation for Becoming a More Effective and Efficient Problem Solver

Decision Analysis: Building the Structure for Solving the Problem

Simulation Modeling

Linear Regression Modeling

Introduction to Forecasting

Introduction to Optimization Models

Project Management: PERT/CPM

Introduction to Visual Basic Programming Appendix A Useful Information

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