SPREADSHEET MODELING FOR MANAGERS INTRODUCTION MS Office 2010 is being used by managers in most of the organizations.

Excel, the spreadsheet component of MS Office 2010, is widely used throughout the business world today forprocessing quantitative data and developing analytical solutions. The ability to build decision support systems (DSS) based on these spreadsheet solutions facilitates knowledge management, thereby increasing information utilization within an organization. Despite the wider usage of spreadsheets, because of a manager's unfamiliarity with some simpleyet sophisticated Excel techniques, most managers receive only a fraction of the benefits they could derive from using Excel in their day-to-day decision making. OBJECTIVES Enabling managers to understand and apply: Problem Solving and Decision Making using Excel Managing a spreadsheet development project CONTENTS The three days of spreadsheet modeling with Excel includes theory and practice on these topics: 1. Referencing schemes: Relative, absolute and circular references 2. Ranges, Range name, Named parameters 3. Common excel errors and how to deal with them 4. Functions and formulas used for business data analysis 5. Charting: Effective presentation of business data, types of charts and their importance 6. What if analysis: Goal seek, Scenario Manager, Data Table 7. Drilling down and rolling up: Pivot Tables, Subtotals 8. Summarizing data in one worksheet from multiple worksheets 9. Securing worksheets while sharing METHODOLOGY Lecture, demonstration, hands-on exercises and project development and presentation WHO SHOULD ATTEND Junior/Middle/Senior level managers of private/public sectors eager to learn spreadsheet modeling for an improved data analysis, presentation and decision making. PROGRAMME DIRECTORS: Dr Riktesh Srivastava PROGRAMME FEE: AED 3000