Decision Modeling with Microsoft Excel

This market-leading text emphasizes the fundamental concepts of modeling and the use of spreadsheets in a business decision-making context, taking a hands-on approach to creating decision models using spreadsheets. It exposes students to a variety of challenges a manager may face in the areas of marketing, finance, operations, and human resources so that students can develop appropriate modeling techniques to solve on-going business issues and provide clear solutions. This revised edition features a wealth of realistic, relevant examples to actively engage students in model building and analysis. All examples have been updated to reflect the latest Excel 2000 changes. NEW TO THE SIXTH EDITION: Chapter on Discrete Event Simulation Chapter on Implementation Fully-updated chapter on Project Management Fully-updated chapter on Monte Carlo Simulation Additional Case Studies Additional basic and advanced homework problems at the end of most chapters Free Student CD-ROM containing: Premium Solver for Education Solver Table add-in software Crystal Ball Pro 2000 (140-day student version) Extend LT 4.0 (simulation software) TreePlan GLP, a graphic visualization program Excel templates (for in-text examples) Microsoft Project 2000 (120-day student version)Moore, Jeffrey H. is the author of 'Decision Modeling with Microsoft Excel', published 2001 under ISBN 9780130177896 and ISBN 013017789X.