You, as a student, are introduced to a client dilemma that can be addressed using the Excel skills learned. These dilemmas provide a “real world” business context that emphasizes the importance of Excel skills and the need to develop decision-making skills to succeed in business. The scenarios throughout the text map to the courses in a typical business curriculum: economics, supply chain management, marketing and advertising, human resources and recruiting, real estate and economics, personal finance, finance and investing, and business statistics and accounting.
Each chapter contains the following resources:
- A discussion of Excel basics and background
- A set of training videos that demonstrate important Excel tools and functions
- A business project, including background and motivation, a data set, and instructions
- A set of critical thinking questions that can be assigned to students or discussed in class
- A set of online questions focused on Excel skills
Chapters move you quickly and efficiently through Excel basics, formatting, setting up an effective workbook, creating tables, using graphs, learning common Excel functions, using Lookup and Reference functions, Pivot Tables, and more.