Working with Excel: Refreshing Math Skills for Management

Managers and analysts routinely collect and examine key performance measures to better understand their operations and make good decisions. Being able to render the complexity of operations data into a coherent account of significant events requires an understanding of how to work well in the electronic environment with raw data. Although some statistical and financial techniques for analyzing data are sophisticated and require specialized expertise, there are methods that are understandable and applicable by anyone with basic algebra skills and the support of a spreadsheet package. And this book brings these understandable tools to light. This book gives you real insight: - To refresh fundamental mathematical operations that broadly support statistical and financial equations and formulas - To perform business analysis in Excel spreadsheets - To facilitate graphic representations of data - To create mathematical models in spreadsheets

Author: Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Published: 12/08/2012
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9781606492802
ISBN10: 1606492802
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Computers | Business & Productivity Software | General

About the Author
Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel is professor of information systems and decision sciences at California State University, Fresno. She received a PhD in design and evaluation of educational programs, an educational specialist degree in program evaluation from Stanford University, and an MA in mathematics from California State University, Fresno.