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GMBA Excel Workshop Spring 2007. Billy Mee. GMBA Excel Workshops – Spring 2007. Develop spreadsheets to be used as analysis tools. Covered Summarizing Data, Loan Amortization, and Pivot Tables. Develop spreadsheets that are powerful, flexible and well organized.
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GMBA Excel WorkshopSpring 2007 Billy Mee
GMBA Excel Workshops – Spring 2007 • Develop spreadsheets to be used as analysis tools. • Covered Summarizing Data, Loan Amortization, and Pivot Tables. • Develop spreadsheets that are powerful, flexible and well organized. • Consider using Excel to analyze financial situations. • Use functions • Build the formulas manually.
Excel as an Analysis Tool • Excel helps an analyst take the vast array of data, organize it, analyze it and present it to an audience. • Goal is to design powerful, flexible, well organized spreadsheets. • Use good basic spreadsheet techniques: • Always use cell references, not data values, in calculations. • Separate data variables from analysis. • Place variable data at top and analysis below. • Use formatting to highlight and organize data.
Excel as an Analysis Tool • Cell references in functions and calculations change relative to the direction they are copied • Cell references can be one of the following types: • Relative – C15 • Absolute – $C$3 • Mixed – D$47 • Excel processes calculations using the rules of Algebra • Keep your formulas simple
Excel as an Analysis Tool • Building a Financial Tool Kit: • NPV • Evaluating returns: ROI • Amortize a loan • Calculating future value (FV) • Use one workbook to hold many worksheets.