Business Modeling With Spreadsheet, 3rd Edition
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- Paperback
350 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2014
Summary
This book is wholly dedicated to the art of exploratory spreadsheet modeling. Real problems that readers encounter on a day-to-day basis are presented with the aim of helping them derive applicable principles and link principles to practice. Users of this book will find it a refreshing learning guide and handy reference resource. It offers 101 spreadsheet exercises and tools including a chapter featuring another 101 business challenges that readers can practice as modeling projects. Introduced for the first time in this third edition is a set of Discovery Points 46 in total. They are included to enlighten readers and instructors on the underlying exploratory thinking employed in the exercises. Though the book can be used with different versions of Microsoft Excel LibreOffice and OpenOffice Calc and other spreadsheet application software this edition only presents Excel 2010-13 spreadsheet features and functions and Visual Basic for Application in its appendices. The notes for older Excel versions and OpenOffice Calc and Basic from the earlier editions and the newly added LibreOffice Calc and Basic are now found in a new Online Learning Center that accompanies this book. Completed spreadsheet workbooks in the different spreadsheet versions are also provided there. This way the book should remain helpful for any person whether a novice beginner or expert to learn business modeling using basic and advanced spreadsheet features as well as macro programming. NEW IN THIS EDITION Discovery Points: To better support underlying thinking and give pointers to guide business problem exploration. These are more general than the comments in the Concept sub-section of exercises and they are ideas many experienced modelers use intuitively. Listed at the start of each chapter to help consolidate the learning for seasoned modelers and make it easier for instructors to impart the art of modeling to students. These points can be used for self-discovery class discussion and project team deliberations. They can be applied to various settings and exercises found in this book. Problem Sets:Provides a means to test students to ensure that learning has taken place at the correct pace. A separate question sets of assignments quizzes and examinations apart from the exercises in the book. These are simpler and more defined problems for students to practice and be evaluated on their spreadsheet skills. The questions with given data are easier and the harder questions are marked with an asterisk (*).
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789814595155 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9814595152 |
| Author: | Cheong Leong |
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) |
| Imprint: | McGraw-Hill Education |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 350 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 710g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 180mm x 230mm |
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Cheong Leong
Dr Leong is Practice Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University. A/P Leong was formerly a faculty member of the National University of Singapore’sBusiness School. Over the years, he had taught courses in operations management, logistics and supply chain management, and business spreadsheet modeling in undergraduate, MBA and executive programs. In between academia, A/P Leong had spent more than a decade’s in the industry and was last Senior Vice-President (Information Technology) with the port operator that runs the world’s busiest container terminal, where he spearheaded its operations improvements, and systems and technology development. He also provided many models which supportedmanagement decisions in strategy, capacity development, operational planning and scheduling, and financial and tax issues. One of his current pet teaching and research interests is spreadsheet modeling and analysis, leveraging his past experience for research as well as industry applications. Even while in academia, he had been active in business consulting and had worked with many multinational corporations and local companies, particularly those in theelectronics, petrochemical, medical, hospitality, banking, cargo logistics,passenger transport, and the government sectors.Dr Cheong is Practice Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University andDirector of the School’s Masters and Professional Programs. Cheong had workedeight years in the industry developing and implementing enterprise IT solutionsfor manufacturing companies. She had led teams to develop complex IT systemswhich were implemented enterprise-wide covering business functions from sales toengineering, inventory management, planning, production, and distribution. Sheconsulted for precision engineering, printing, aerospace and brewery companiesin business process re-engineering for IT solutions implementation. During herPhD studies, she taught, as a teaching assistant, a course in analytical methodsand flow models. Currently, she teaches the undergraduate spreadsheet modelingcourse together with the first author. As Director of the School’s Masters andProfessional Programs, she worked closely with the Dean’s office toconceptualize, design and develop a new master’s program, which was successfullylaunched in 2007.
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