Manage, analyze, and visualize data with Microsoft Excel 2013 to transform raw data into ready to use information About This Book * Create formulas to help you analyze and explain findings * Develop interactive spreadsheets that will impress your audience and give them the ability to slice and dice data * A step-by-step guide to learn various ways to model data for businesses with the help of Excel 2013 Who This Book Is For If you want to start using Excel 2013 for data analysis and business modeling and enhance your skills in the data analysis life cycle then this book is for you, whether you're new to Excel or experienced. What You Will Learn * Discover what Excel formulas are all about and how to use them in your spreadsheet development * Identify bad data and learn cleaning strategies * Create interactive spreadsheets that engage and appeal to your audience * Leverage Excel's powerful built-in tools to get the median, maximum, and minimum values of your data * Build impressive tables and combine datasets using Excel's built-in functionality * Learn the powerful scripting language VBA, allowing you to implement your own custom solutions with ease In Detail Excel 2013 is one of the easiest to use data analysis tools you will ever come across. Its simplicity and powerful features has made it the go to tool for all your data needs. Complex operations with Excel, such as creating charts and graphs, visualization, and analyzing data make it a great tool for managers, data scientists, financial data analysts, and those who work closely with data. Learning data analysis and will help you bring your data skills to the next level. This book starts by walking you through creating your own data and bringing data into Excel from various sources. You'll learn the basics of SQL syntax and how to connect it to a Microsoft SQL Server Database using Excel's data connection tools. You will discover how to spot bad data and strategies to clean that data to make it useful to you. Next, you'll learn to create custom columns, identify key metrics, and make decisions based on business rules. You'll create macros using VBA and use Excel 2013's shiny new macros. Finally, at the end of the book, you'll be provided with useful shortcuts and tips, enabling you to do efficient data analysis and business modeling with Excel 2013. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide to performing data analysis and business modelling with Excel 2013, complete with examples and tips.

The jargon associated with Microsoft Excel's pivot tables ("n-dimensional cross tabulations") makes them look complex, but they're really no more than an easy way to build concise, flexible summaries of long lists of raw values. If you're working with hundreds (or hundreds of thousands) of rows, then pivot tables are the best way to look at the same information in different ways, summarize data on the fly, and spot trends and relationships. This handy guide teaches you how to use Excel's most powerful feature to crunch large amounts of data, without having to write new formulas, copy and paste cells, or reorganize rows and columns. You can download the sample workbook to follow along with the author's examples. Create pivot tables from worksheet databases. Rearrange pivot tables by dragging, swapping, and nesting fields. Customize pivot tables with styles, layouts, totals, and subtotals. Combine numbers, dates, times, or text values into custom groups. Calculate common statistics or create custom formulas. Filter data that you don't want to see. Create and customize pivot charts. Unlink a pivot table from its source data. Control references to pivot table cells. Plenty of tips, tricks, and workarounds. Fully indexed and cross-referenced.

Contents 1. Pivot Table Basics 2. Nesting Fields 3. Grouping Items 4. Calculations and Custom Formulas 5. Filtering Data 6. Charting Pivot Tables 7. Tricks with Pivot Tables

About the AuthorTim Hill is a data miner based in Las Vegas, Nevada. When he's not crunching numbers, Tim plays poker, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.

This book will teach you on how to prepare report(s) automatically by creating template(s) with combined formula. Then you can use the template to generate the regular daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly report as and when automatically by placing your on-going updated data into the template with ExcelAutomateReport concept. This solution saves you a lot of valuable time plus you don't have to repeat the same report making process again and again. Suitable for Sales Personnel, Marketing Personnel, Purchaser, Administrator & Analyst.

The complete change in the Excel 2007 interface has jolted many Excel users out of their comfort zone as they struggle to locate and familiarize themselves with the regular functions they have been using for many years. Most Excel users tend to stick to the regular functions that they have been using to get their job done and may not be aware of shorter and more productive methods of working with the new version of Excel. As such, more than 30 Tips and Tricks have been specially identified and compiled in this book. Each of the Tips and Tricks has the potential of saving you hours of cleaning up the data manually, drastically changing the way you use Excel. Some of the Tips and Tricks found in this book are:

• Customize The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
• Double Click On The Ribbon To Hide It
• Quick Access To Frequently Used Files
• Tracking Real-Time Changes With Excel Camera
• Jump Instantly To The End Of Your Database
• Searching And Entering Formula With Autocomplete
• Create Attention-Getting Comments

The jargon associated with Microsoft Excel's pivot tables ("n-dimensional cross tabulations") makes them look complex, but they're really no more than an easy way to build concise, flexible summaries of long lists of raw values. If you're working with hundreds (or hundreds of thousands) of rows, then pivot tables are the best way to look at the same information in different ways, summarize data on the fly, and spot trends and relationships. This handy guide teaches you how to use Excel's most powerful feature to crunch large amounts of data, without having to write new formulas, copy and paste cells, or reorganize rows and columns. You can download the sample workbook to follow along with the author's examples. Create pivot tables from worksheet databases. Rearrange pivot tables by dragging, swapping, and nesting fields. Customize pivot tables with styles, layouts, totals, and subtotals. Combine numbers, dates, times, or text values into custom groups. Calculate common statistics or create custom formulas. Filter data that you don't want to see. Create and customize pivot charts. Unlink a pivot table from its source data. Control references to pivot table cells. Plenty of tips, tricks, and workarounds. Fully indexed and cross-referenced.

Contents 1. Pivot Table Basics 2. Nesting Fields 3. Grouping Items 4. Calculations and Custom Formulas 5. Filtering Data 6. Charting Pivot Tables 7. Tricks with Pivot Tables

About the AuthorTim Hill is a data miner based in Las Vegas, Nevada. When he's not crunching numbers, Tim plays poker, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.

Clearing the Financial Accounting (FI) Certification will not automatically lead you to a job. However a Certification with some project experience will certainly open a lot of doors for you. The consultants who will benefit the most from a certification are the ones with typically less than 3 year's project experience. This is not to say that consultants with higher experience will not benefit, but at that level, having a certification matters much less. So if you have little or no SAP- FI experience, you should get yourself certified, get some project experience, and then the whole of the SAP World open for you to explore. Helping you with the first step on you ladder to success is the: SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting (FI) with SAP ERP 6.0 Some unique features of this book: - There is NO Other book in the market for the SAP FI Accounting (FI) ERP 6.0 Certification exam. - The authors have themselves cleared the exam. - All questions are multiple choice format, similar the questions you will get in the actual exam. - Over 200 authentic questions, testing the exact same concepts that will be tested in Your exam

Building on the firm foundation established in the first volume, the second installment in the Excel University series continues to explore the Excel features, functions and techniques relevant to accounting and finance professionals. Volume 2 focuses on how to automate recurring-use reports. Amounts in hands-free reports update the instant updated data is inserted into the workbook, for example, when an updated trial balance is pasted into the data sheet. This volume covers the Excel items needed to build and automate reports, including lookups, dynamic headers, mapping tables, error trapping, conditional summing, and date related functions. Excel practice files and solutions videos are available online so you can work hands-on as you read through the content. The skills developed in this volume will help you get your work done in less time.

As part of the new Pocket Primer series, this book provides an overview of the major concepts and tutorial videos to use Word and Excel. The book serves as a starting point for deeper exploration of Word and Excel. The focus of this book is on using these two software packages and includes instruction for Word 365, which includes both Word 2013 for Windows and Word 2011 for Macintosh. Features: Includes tutorial videos on the companion DVD Provides an overview of the most important Word and Excel techniques Contains Word and Excel graphics and animation effects

Meaningful Graphs is a concise and practical go-to guide for creating charts in Excel (r) that clearly and accurately tell the story in your data. It incorporates (a) explanations of the graph design principles of the experts (Tufte, Few, Robbins, Zelazny, and others), (b) the software steps necessary to incorporate these principles into Excel (r) charts, and (c) chart-related discussions of quality improvement (including Pareto charts), statistics (including run charts and correlations), and the use of graphs in PowerPoint (r) presentations (including chart animation). Also included are numerous "Tips" and "In Practice" examples drawn from over 35 years of working with data in healthcare settings. Coverage begins with highlighting the importance of knowing the story in your data and general principles of chart design (e.g., chartjunk, the use of color, consideration of three dimensional charts) and then proceeds to examine and create the five major chart types (column, bar, line, pie, scatter). This is followed by considerations of the pros and cons of each of the six less frequently employed chart types. There are over 120 graphs in full color plus tables and illustrations. Discussions of the most useful chart types include examples with accompanying data to facilitate practice. While illustrations are especially tailored for healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, patient safety, quality improvement staff, executives, and managers) both in their work setting and in their academic preparation, the principles of graph design and the Excel (r) techniques required to incorporate these principles apply equally well in other settings. The latter include other industries and academic programs, including those leading to degrees in business administration (MBA), public health (MPH), and public administration (MPA). If you follow the advice in this book, the graphs you create for reports, presentations, posters, or publications will be more informative and more easily und

Building on the firm foundation established in the first volume, the second installment in the Excel University series continues to explore the Excel features, functions and techniques relevant to accounting and finance professionals. Volume 2 focuses on how to automate recurring-use reports. Amounts in hands-free reports update the instant updated data is inserted into the workbook, for example, when an updated trial balance is pasted into the data sheet. This volume covers the Excel items needed to build and automate reports, including lookups, dynamic headers, mapping tables, error trapping, conditional summing, and date related functions. Excel practice files and solutions videos are available online so you can work hands-on as you read through the content. The skills developed in this volume will help you get your work done in less time.