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Traditionally, the areas of 'Decision Making' and 'Decision Making with Computers' have been regarded as separate subject specialisms. As the degree of computer literacy among students and managers has risen, a need for overlap in these subject areas is necessary. This book addreses this change in approach. It extends the decision making ability of students and managers by increasing their use of computer aids which they already have.
List of contents
1. The Nature of Managerial Work
2. Spreadsheets in Business Activity
3. Constructing Local Scenarios: Structural Modeling
4. Spreadsheets and Managerial Support Guidelines
5. Logic Model and Logic Modeling
6. Data Models and Data Modeling
7. The Results Interface: Presenting Information
8. Spreadsheet Design: Model Creation, Maintenance and Enhancement
9. Beyond Spreadsheet Basics
10. Risk Ananlysis
11. Simulation
12. Goal Seeking and Solving
13. Project Management
14. Statistics
15. Forecasting
16. Spreadsheet Data as a Base of Data
17. Internal and External Sources of Data
18. Beyond the Spreadsheet
Summary
Traditionally, the areas of 'Decision Making' and 'Decision Making with Computers' have been regarded as separate subject specialisms. As the degree of computer literacy among students and managers has risen, a need for overlap in these subject areas is necessary. This book addreses this change in approach. It extends the decision making ability of students and managers by increasing their use of computer aids which they already have.
