Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019 and Office 365 and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. New coverage ranges from Power Query/Get & Transform to Office 365 Geography and Stock data types. Practice with more than 800 problems, many based on actual challenges faced by working analysts.
Solve real business problems with Excel—and build your competitive advantage:
Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analyticsUse PowerQuery or Get & Transform to connect, combine, and refine data sourcesLeverage Office 365's new Geography and Stock data types and six new functionsIlluminate insights from geographic and temporal data with 3D MapsSummarize data with pivot tables, descriptive statistics, histograms, and Pareto chartsUse Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothingDelve into key financial, statistical, and time functionsMaster all of Excel's great chartsQuickly create forecasts from historical time-based dataUse Solver to optimize product mix, logistics, work schedules, and investments—and even rate sports teamsRun Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding modelsLearn about basic probability and Bayes' TheoremUse the Data Model and Power Pivot to effectively build and use relational data sources inside an Excel workbookAutomate repetitive analytics tasks by using macros
