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Next Generation Excel: Modeling in Excel for Analysts and MBAs 1st Edition
by Isaac Gottlieb (Author)
Rutgers professor, Dr. Isaac Gottlieb demonstrates an array of advanced financial and accounting functions in this practical Excel modeling book. He shows how to quickly create models that deliver accurate, relevant information related to efficiency, forecasting, and a host of other business and reporting issues. This book describes how Excel can be used efficiently to help build your spreadsheet for a variety of purposes. As an MBA student, an analyst or an executive you could become a spreadsheets expert.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
Next Generation Excel – Modeling in Excel for Analysts and MBAs is not just another “how to use Excel” book. The content of this book is the distillation of the feedback of many years of teaching, both in classrooms as well as corporate workshops settings. It is the author’s conclusion that in studying applications, people do not want to read long complicated explanations. Therefore, this book is filled with short descriptions and multiple screenshots, to walk the reader through the different manipulations.Excel is a very powerful—and extensive—software program. The intricacies can seem overwhelming to the casual user. This book is the answer to simplifying what might seem complicated. Using a step-by-step, hands-on approach, it will help anyone using the program discover many functions and achieve immediate results, quickly making efficient use of the power of the Excel options.
Some of the subjects covered in the book include:
- Financial functions
- Data mining using Pivot Tables
- Statistics for non-statisticians
- Accounting
- What-if analysis, and many more.
Each chapter is subject-specific and can be consulted independently from the others. By opening the book at any chapter, the reader will find valuable information for immediate efficiency improvement.
Neither a beginner’s introductory book, nor a power-user’s manual, Next Generation Excel—using Excel 2007, with explanations pertaining to Excel 2003 and previous versions when needed—is designed to appeal to analysts, executives, students, daily users as well as instructors in the software. All the techniques described have been extensively tested with students and workshop participants.
Users at any level will benefit from the wealth of information within, easily and rapidly.
From the Back Cover
“Dr. Isaac Gottlieb personally trained 35 of our top analysts and finance professionals in a customized advanced Excel seminar. Many of the tools covered in this book were part of this well-received training. For the past five years, Isaac’s monthly Excel-Tip-Of-The-Month newsletter has been a personal favorite of mine. In an age where email overload is common, I always look forward to his email and many of my associates and team members around the world are part of his over 50,000 monthly recipients. This compilation is a must-have for any finance professional who wants to be a better business partner and truly add value in a more efficient manner!”
Anthony N. Caspio, CMA
Vice President – Finance
Sealed Air Corporation
“Excel has been one of the most powerful applications of recent times, but most users, unfortunately, only scratch its surface. Prof. Gottlieb’s book leverages his years of Excel workshops in the US, Europe and Asia, and he unleashes the tremendous potential and power of Excel. His to-the-point explanations and his innovative screenshots bring Excel alive to readers who may just have a working knowledge of the software. This amazing volume is an application-oriented book for Excel users who want answers fast, and who need to maximize the application’s awesome potential.”
Prof. Farrokh Langdana, Ph.D.
Director, Rutgers Executive MBA
Professor, Rutgers Business School
“If I should thank Microsoft for inventing Excel, then I would like to thank Dr. Isaac Gottlieb more for teaching me how to use it to solve the real problems in my real work. Keep going Isaac!”
Wu Haowen
Director of International Programs
School of Management, Dalian University of Technology
“Isaac Gottlieb’s Next Generation Excel is an invaluable resource. The fruit of many years of teaching Excel to university business students, Gottlieb’s book covers the topics that the Excel user needs to become more efficient and sophisticated. It is easy to read and follow. A wonderful book!”
Simon Benninga
Professor of Finance, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University
Author of Principles of Finance with Excel
“As an avid user of Excel, several years ago I came across Isaac’s Excel-Tip-Of-The-Month newsletter. I quickly realized that Isaac exploits Excel to the “next usability level.” Like his monthly newsletters, Isaac has composed a book that is clear and concise similarly reflecting his teaching methods. This book helps intermediate users to rapidly acquire Excel-pro skills, while allowing advanced users to grasp concepts in one single pass-through. Furthermore, Isaac takes day-to-day challenges and provides elegant ease of use solutions.”
Moshe Castiel
Manager, IT – Technology & Operations
TIAA-CREF
“Next Generation Excel presents an interesting perspective on the resourcefulness of Microsoft Excel like never before. This book is an excellent and a much-needed resource to MBA students, educators and Excel enthusiasts. In reviewing this book, the principal criteria included content, organization and Excel add-on files. The book is neatly organized into sections; starting with basic Excel tools and functions, commonly used statistical tools, what-if-analysis and then moving on to advanced data features, solver-add ins and various other ToolPaks, nicely complemented with the Excel snapshots to provide a user friendly experience. As a result, one can jump directly to the relevant sections and use the Excel files provided to get a more hands-on experience. The right mix of theory and practice, is the unique selling point (USP) of this book!”
Anirudha “Andy” Vaidya, MBA
CEO
AVS System
About the Author
Isaac D. Gottlieb, Ph.D. is the Director of the International Executive MBA at Rutgers University Business School. He has been part of the teaching faculty for over 10 years, and is the recipient of a number of teaching excellence awards.
Over the last decade, he has taught how to use Excel—and how to apply it effectively to various business disciplines—to thousands of MBA and Executive MBA students at Rutgers, NYU and Columbia University.
He has also instructed Excel application in business settings to over 10,000 participants in corporate seminars, conferences and workshops. The participants are professionals from leading multinational companies as well as small private business corporations.
Dr. Gottlieb has an Excel-Tip-Of-The-Month newsletter which goes to over 50,000 recipients.
Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
About the author
Isaac Gottlieb
Dr. Isaac Gottlieb earned his PhD in Management Engineering from Columbia University. He is a clinical professor at the Fox Business School of Temple University and has over 15 years of industrial experience.
Nominated a Microsoft Most valuable Professional (MVP) for 2014.
Dr. Gottlieb has taught Excel over the last 15 years to over 30,000 MBA, executive MBA, MS, PhD and undergraduate students at Columbia, NYU, Temple, and other universities. He has conducted numerous corporate seminars in the United States and abroad.
As a result of years of teaching, Dr. Gottlieb has found that step-by-step and hands-on approaches are the most effective learning tools. The first edition of his book was written to appeal to practitioners, students, and instructors.
In the second edition Dr. Gottlieb added chapters for recently developed features. His book is written with Excel 2010 in mind. Every chapter has an appendix for Excel 2007, 2003, and MAC Excel 2011.
Next Generation Excel has hundreds of screen shot graphic illustrations. Every chapter has review questions at the end (with the answers!). Applying one’s knowledge to various problems ensures that the reader truly understands the topics covered in each chapter of Next Generation Excel.
Customer reviews
Paul A. King
Excel Wizardry from the Wizard
I have taken Isaac Gottlieb’s MBA Excel course twice. I didn’t / couldn’t get enough the first time; it was just too fast-paced to get it all in one two-day event. I enjoy Isaac’s Excel Tip-of-the-Month newsletters, but I rarely get time to regularly read them when they arrive. This new book is a very carefully organized, easy to read practice manual designed to get most mid-level Excel users to near-Wizard status.
If you currently use Excel on a regular basis in your work or studies, then his claim that you will save ten hours per week is probably true. If you want to learn how to really take advantage of the magic of model-building in Excel, this book is probably a great starting point.
The accompanying practice CD works with Excel 2003 and 2007 and I have found that is also works just as well in Excel 2010).
JPM
This book reads like somebody is personally coaching you on Excel
This book reads like somebody is personally coaching you on Excel… one point (its not NEXT GEN, which is good for its starts from the basics and keeps on elevating the level of discussion)
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