The course briefly introduces the popular
spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel. It allows users to create rich, stylized
spreadsheets to store, organize, sort, calculate, and graph data. The focus of
the course is designed to help students use concepts learned in other courses
in a spreadsheet environment. Furthermore, course is designed specifically for
spreadsheet users who are already performing professional financial analysis
and financial modelling or new starters for spreadsheet programming. Especially
topics covered include basics of spreadsheet programming, graphing and
scheduling, financial and statistical functions, Goal Seek and Solver add-in
functionality. The course finally will focus on the efficient usage of date
functions.