Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019 and Office 365 and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. New coverage ranges from Power Query/Get & Transform to Office 365 Geography and Stock data types. Practice with more than 800 problems, many based on actual challenges faced by working analysts.

Solve real business problems with Excel—and build your competitive advantage:

Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics
Use PowerQuery or Get & Transform to connect, combine, and refine data sources
Leverage Office 365’s new Geography and Stock data types and six new functions
Illuminate insights from geographic and temporal data with 3D Maps
Summarize data with pivot tables, descriptive statistics, histograms, and Pareto charts
Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing
Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions
Master all of Excel’s great charts
Quickly create forecasts from historical time-based data
Use Solver to optimize product mix, logistics, work schedules, and investments—and even rate sports teams
Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models
Learn about basic probability and Bayes’ Theorem
Use the Data Model and Power Pivot to effectively build and use relational data sources inside an Excel workbook
Automate repetitive analytics tasks by using macros