Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel, 5th Edition

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Features

• Detailed workbooks for every chapter as well as standalone workbooks that illustrate key business tasks
• Power BI examples will illustrate the underlying data source, query results, and visual representations as rendered by Power BI Desktop or Power BI Premium Service
• Shows how to use Excel to take total control over company finances
• Covers everything from financial statements and marketing to investment decision-making and quality management, using real-world examples

Description

Gain Deeper Insights, Make Smarter Decisions, and Earn More Profits

It’s time to put the full power of Excel quantitative analysis behind your management decisions!

Business analysis expert Conrad Carlberg shows you how to use Excel to perform core financial tasks all managers and entrepreneurs need to master: analyzing statements, planning and controlling company finances, making investment decisions, and managing sales and marketing. Carlberg helps you make the most of Excel’s tools and features in everything from business case development to cash flow analysis.

Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier. You’ll find crystal-clear instructions, real-world examples, insider insights, step-by-step projects, and much more. It’s all complemented by extensive web-based resources, from sample journals and ledgers to business forecasting tools.

·         Get more insight from income statements and balance sheets

·         Manage current assets and value inventories

·         Summarize transactions from journal to balance sheet

·         Analyze working capital, cash flow, statements, and ratios

·         Optimize budgeting and planning cycles

·         Make more accurate and useful forecasts and projections

·         Measure product or service quality

·         Plan investments, set decision criteria, and perform sensitivity analyses

·         Analyze profits, pricing, costs, contributions, and margins

·         Make better decisions in uncertain conditions

·         Understand and maximize the value of fixed assets

·         Efficiently import and export business data

·         Use Excel and Power BI to analyze data from QuickBooks or other sources 

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I: Analyzing Financial Statements
• Chapter 2 Power BI: An Overview
• Chapter 3 Balance Sheet: Current Assets 
• Chapter 4: Valuing Inventories for the Balance Sheet 
• Chapter 5: Summarizing Transactions: From the Journals to the Balance Sheet 
• Chapter 6: Working Capital and Cash Flow Analysis 
• Chapter 7: Statement Analysis
• Chapter 8: Ratio Analysis 
• PART II   Financial Planning and Control
• Chapter 9: Budgeting and Planning Cycle
• Chapter 10: Forecasting and Projections 
• Chapter 11: Measuring Quality 
• PART III   Investment Decisions
• Chapter 12: Examining a Business Case: Investment
• Chapter 13: Examining Decision Criteria for a Business Case
• Chapter 14: Creating a Sensitivity Analysis for a Business Case 
• Chapter 15: Planning Profits 
• Chapter 16: Making Investment Decisions Under Uncertain Conditions 
• Chapter 17: Fixed Assets 
• PART IV  Sales and Production Analysis
• Chapter 18: Importing Business Data into Excel 
• Chapter 19: Exporting Business Data from Excel 
• Chapter 20 Using Excel 2016 and Power BI to Analyze QuickBooks Data
• Chapter 21: Analyzing Contributions and Margins 
• Chapter 22: Pricing and Costing

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