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Excel Review

Join us for a comprehensive Excel review weekend tailored for Executive MBA students. Learn essential Excel techniques, model-building skills, and practice exercises to enhance your expertise. Get expert advice and tips for efficient Excel modeling. Prepare for Dr. Kornish's expectations and elevate your Excel proficiency.

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Excel Review

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  1. Excel Review Weekend Executive MBA April 2003

  2. Agenda • Part 1 • Working smarter • Part 2 • What Dr. Kornish expects • Part 3 • Model building advice from the experts • Part 4 • Modeling exercises

  3. Agenda – more detail • Part 1 Working smarter: A demo of a number of Excel techniques that will make you a more efficient user. • Part 2 What Dr. Kornish expects you to know: Critical model-building skills. Demonstrations and hands-on practice. • Part 3 Advice from Fuqua’s Decision Science faculty: Fundamentals of how to approach Excel model-building. • Part 4 Modeling exercises: Skills application.

  4. Agenda – more on Part 2: What Dr. Kornish Expects You to Know • Critical “going in” knowledge • Bad & good formula-writing technique • About formulas • Key logical functions (IF, AND, OR, NOT, MIN, MAX) • Charting Basics • Printing • Online Help • Excel tools she’ll introduce in class • In the context of your work • Data Tables • Solver • Etc. Pencil & paper (or PC) exercises Solver

  5. My goals for this session • Decision Models Course Preparation • View selected techniques to make your work with Excel easier and more efficient. • Review and practice formula-writing basics and logical functions. • A Modeling Approach • Consider a straightforward framework for approaching Excel modeling. • Continuing • Suggest materials, resources, and suggestions for continued learning about Excel.

  6. Handouts & Materials • On Paper • WEMBA Excel Review • Supplementary Excel materials • Diskette • Demo and practice files • WEMBA Excel Review Webpage • More files

  7. Before getting started • 1. Check a box • Complete the Excel self-assessment sheet • 2. Resources for Learning More about Excel • See “Suggested Excel Resources” in the blue handout, page 1. • Text Recommendations • For tutorial work • For quick reference • For comprehensive reference • Video/CD-ROM/Web Recommendations

  8. Part 1: Working Smarter Part 1: Working Smarter Part 2: What Dr. Kornish Expects Part 3: Model-Building Advice From the Experts Part 4: Modeling

  9. Part 1: Working smarter • Topics from the handout Efficiency Techniques in Excel • Selected features on • Workbook organization • Data entry & edit • Arranging & viewing the worksheet

  10. Part 1: Working SmarterWorkbook Organization • Toolbars • Quick access, docking, customizing. • Worksheet tabs • Add, rename, delete, re-order, group. • Copying and/or moving worksheets • The best method.

  11. Part 1: Working SmarterData Entry & Edit • The formula bar • More than just formula display. • Formats • Number, alignment, fonts, duplication, etc. • Fill & extend • Fast repetition or extension. • Naming cells & ranges • How & why.

  12. Part 1: Working SmarterArranging & Viewing the Worksheet • One- and two-way splits • Never again lose sight of key headers. • Viewing multiple windows • In the same workbook or across workbooks. • Moving & selecting • Some useful power techniques.

  13. Part 2: What Dr. Kornish Expects You to Know Part 1: Working Smarter Part 2: What Dr. Kornish Expects You to Know Part 3: Model-Building Advice From the Experts Part 4: Modeling

  14. Writing formulasFormula review FormulaReview.xls BadAndGoodFormulaTechnique.xls

  15. Logic Practice MoreLogicPractice.xls LogicPractice.xls

  16. Charting Charting Basics.xls

  17. Part 3: Model-Building Advice Part 1: Working Smarter Part 2: What Dr. Kornish Expects Part 3: Model-Building Advice From the Experts Part 4: Modeling

  18. On Model-Building: Expert advice • Handout • Design & Audit Tips • Model components • Understand the components present in most spreadsheet models. • Checklist • Make those components part of a checklist. • Use the checklist items to: • Organize new models. • Improve existing models.

  19. Five item modeling checklist • 1. Identify Known Values • The givens; can’t be modified. • (Do you need more information?) • 2. Identify Decision Variables • The quantities you control. • You’ll manipulate these items to find an optimal model solution. • 3. Determine the Outputs • What you want to solve, show, find, maximize or minimize.

  20. Checklist, continued • 4. Be aware of any Constraints • Limits to inputs or outputs. Tradeoffs. • 5. Build Relationships into the Model • Relationships between known values and variables, expressed in formulas.

  21. Part 4: Modeling Part 1: Working Smarter Part 2: What Dr. Kornish Expects Part 3: Model-Building Advice From the Experts Part 4: Modeling

  22. Oak Products: Overview • Oak Products • A small company that manufactures chairs. • The company has six chair models. • Each chair model • Requires a particular mix of components. • August is a slow month • Because August is traditionally a vacation month, only the parts already on hand in the factory can be used for August production. • Traditionally, Oak Products has made 40 of each model chair in August.

  23. Question • Might a different product mix be more profitable?

  24. To find out... • Data we need • the components each model requires • how many of each component are on hand • how much profit each model generates • Then • Analyze the data to determine the most profitable product mix, accounting for constraints.

  25. Model Checklist • Objective • maximize August profit • Known Values • profit per chair, parts-on-hand, parts required • Constraints • limited parts on hand, parts requirements • Decision variables • how many of each model to make

  26. Build the model See the Oak Products handout. Three stages: Part 1: Initial arranging of the data. Add any known values. Part 2: Build formulas to express data relationships. Part 3: Use the model to find the best answer.

  27. 40 53 40 40 75 5 28 37 Using the model to maximize total profit …with Solver …with guesswork

  28. Identify for Solver • Target cell • Total Profit • Changing cells (or decision variables) • Quantity of each chair to produce • Constraints • No “negative production” • Use only inventory on hand

  29. Oak Products model summary • As you work • use the 5-item model-building checklist • Put down what you know, then • get more data, if needed • rearrange the layout, if needed • express data relationships using formulas • Then use the model • change the decision variable values • perhaps use Solver to find the best solution

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