The art of modeling with spreadsheets : management science, spreadsheet engineering, and modeling craft

Successful business modeling is much more than a technical discipline, its an art. And as in most professional disciplines, you can tell the experts apart from the novices by the creativity they bring to the craft. Now with Steve Powell and Ken Bakers The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, you can master the technical knowledge as well as those essential craft skills needed to develop real expertise in business modeling.

Youll learn:

• Effective methods for designing, building, and testing models, and for performing model based analyses,
• Non technical, craft skills that expert modelers commonly employ, such as abstracting a situation, debugging a model, and translating model results into managerial insights, and
• Standard statistical and management science techniques used in business today, such as data analysis, simulation, and optimization.

The CD ROM packaged wit h t his text features all of the spreadsheets referred to in the text, as well as three software tools of special importance to business analysts:

• Premium Solver
• Crystal Ball
• Sensitivity Toolkit (featuring four sensitivity tools)