A Brief History of Spreadsheets by D. J. Power Editor‚ DSSResources.COM Spreadsheets have been used by accountants for hundreds of years. Computerized or electronic spreadsheets are of much more recent origin. Information Systems oral history and some published newspaper and magazine stories celebrate Dan Bricklin as the "father" of the electronic spreadsheet. In 1978‚ Harvard Business School student‚ Daniel Bricklin‚ came up with the idea for an interactive visible calculator (see email from
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Spreadsheet Exercises Using Excel Learning Objective: These exercises are designed to familiarize you with a spreadsheet application software called MS Excel. After the completion of the lab‚ you should be able to: 1. work with MS Excel or other spreadsheet programs 2. use functions and formulas in a spreadsheet application software for calculation 3. explain what functions and formulas are‚ how they work‚ and the difference between them Formulas Well‚ a formula is a simple calculation
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the Ocean Carriers Group is to evaluate the potential revenues and expenses of commissioning a new capsize ship for cargo transportation in order to meet a received demand for lease. A recommended approach would consist in analyzing the expectations for the world economy‚ trends in world trade and potential contracts; however‚ an estimated time of service should be assigned in order to predict future cash flows. Summary of facts In January 2001‚ Mary Linn‚ vice president of Finance for Ocean Carriers
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2014 Etec 100 Dr. Wilson Chapter 10 Chapter ten introduces the topic of spread other cells. A spreadsheet consists of a table of cells arranged into rows and columns and referred to by the X and Y locations. X locations‚ the columns‚ are nord sheets‚ A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application program for organization‚ analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets devel computerized oped as simulations of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data represented as cells of an array
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Getting Started in Excel Many of the editing tools that you use in Excel are similar to Word and PowerPoint You will need to become familiar with a few new things for Excel: Rows‚ Columns‚ Various Formulas‚ and Charts just to name a few When you see a reference such as A7‚ A is the column and 7 is the row‚ this will give you the particular cell that is being referenced. You will learn that you can click or enter in information when it comes to cells and formulas. Everyone will have their own
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What is a Spreadsheet? Honestly‚ when I first started this assignment‚ I really didn’t know what a spreadsheet was‚ etc. So I started at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet. I read that and got a good base of spreadsheets and the history. First of all‚ Microsoft Excel is the industry standard in spreadsheets (history on spreadsheets can be accessed at the above website address). With Excel‚ you can create a shared workbook and place it on a network location where several people can edit‚
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How to Use a Data Spreadsheet: Excel One does not necessarily have special statistical software to perform statistical analyses. Microsoft Office Excel can be used to run statistical procedures. Although in some respects Excel is not as preferable for data analyses as IBM SPSS‚ it is very userfriendly with simpler statistical procedures. This appendix describes how to use Excel to execute basic statistical calculations. Data from the 2004 version of the General Social Survey (GSS) is used for
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Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis Sensitivity Report A sensitivity report of the analysis described above was created and can be found in Appendix E. The solution is not degenerate because there are no zero values in the allowable increase or allowable decrease columns of the constraints in the Sensitivity Report. All of the constraints affect the optimal solution. The solution is unique because there are no zero values in the allowable increase or allowable decrease columns in the decision
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costs incurred for putting on this event: Rental cost for the auditorium Registration processing Speaker costs Continental breakfast Lunch Parking $150 $8.50 per person 3*$800 = $2400 $4.00 per person $7.00 per person $5.00 per person 1. Build a spreadsheet model that calculates a profit or loss based on the number of nonmember registrants. 2. Use Goal Seek to find the number of nonmember registrants that will make the event break even The Center for Business Analytics is considering a refund policy
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Group Excel Project April 16‚ 2014 Camesha Vera‚ Nadia Ferrari‚ Shuo Sun‚ Jiashun Hu‚ Siddhant Dutt‚ YuXin Xing Alliant University IST 6010 Professor Kumar The US Census Service is need of analysis for some recently released data‚ pertaining to housing in the Boston Massachusetts area. The reports generated from this analysis will be completed using an Excel spreadsheet. Excel features calculations‚ graphing tools‚ pivot tables‚ “what if “ scenarios‚ along with other data analysis functions
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