Excel 2007 Data Analysis For Dummies

– Shows ordinary users how to tap the rich data analysis functionality of Excel, make sense of their organization’s critical financial and statistical information, and put together compelling data presentations
– Now revised with over 30 percent new content to cover the enhancements in Excel 2007, including the completely redesigned user interface, augmented charting and PivotTable capabilities, improved security, and better data exchange through XML
– Provides thorough coverage of Excel features that are critical to data analysis-working with external databases, creating PivotTables and PivotCharts, using Excel statistical and financial functions, sharing data, harnessing the Solver, taking advantage of the Small Business Finance Manager, and more

8 books in 1- your key to QuickBooks 2007 success!
Your one-stop guide to managing your small business finances more efficiently

QuickBooks is the leading accounting program for small businesses, and this book gives you a handy reference to all its parts. Set up QuickBooks for your business, load your files, create invoices, pay vendors, understand job costing and capital budgeting, and even get tips on writing your business plan. It all adds up to success!

Discover how to

Install and set up QuickBooks
Track your inventory and items
Prepare financial statements and reports
Set up project and job costing systems
Protect your data
Save on business taxes

One of the principles of good business and good money management is to make the most of what you have. QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies helps you make the most of QuickBooks business accounting software. Updated to cover changes and enhancements to the software, it combines eight quick reference guides:
– An Accounting Primer that covers basic principles, double-entry bookkeeping, and special accounting problems
– Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks with information on setting up QuickBooks, loading the master file lists, and fine-tuning QuickBooks
– Bookkeeping Chores, covering invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, and more
– Accounting Chores including financial statements, reports, and budgets, using activity-based costing, and setting up project and job costing systems
– Financial Management such as ratio analysis, economic value-added analysis, and capital budgeting
– Business Plans, featuring profit-volume-cost analysis, forecasting, and writing a business plan
– Care and Maintenance, with information on protecting data, troubleshooting, and more
– Additional Business Resources including a crash course in Excel, a glossary, and more

Written by veteran Dummies author Stephen L. Nelson, MBA, CPA, and author of more than 100 books with more than four million copies in print, QuickBooks All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies goes beyond the basics of how to use QuickBooks and provides expert advice on accounting chores, financial management, business planning, and much more. With a comprehensive index, it’s your instant, at-your-fingertips reference for everything from how to handle everyday accounting tasks to long-term planning for your business.

– Fine-tune QuickBooks for your business and your accounting systems
– Calculate breakeven points
– Budget for capital expenditures
– Take advantage of online banking

There’s even a companion Web site where you can take advantage of a sample business plan workbook and download a profit-volume cost analysis workbook. You won’t find a more comprehensive, authoritative, yet understandable guide to QuickBooks.

Keep your small business finances in tip-top form
Manage your business accounting and financial management tasks—quickly and accurately

If you’re like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. That’s where this handy guide comes in. Written by a CPA, it quickly walks you through bookkeeping basics — and shows how QuickBooks can put your accounts in order so you can spend less time with the books and more time on business.

Discover how to

Build the perfect budget
Prepare customer invoices and record sales
Produce common financial statements
Manage inventory
Simplify tax return preparation
Balance accounts

Put the power of Excel formulas and functions to work for you! Excel is a complex program. Mastering the use of formulas and functions lets you use Excel to compute useful day–to–day information, such as calculating the true cost of credit card purchases or comparing 15–year and 30–year mortgage costs. This fun and friendly book demystifies Excel′s built–in functions so you can put them to work. You′ll find step–by–step instructions on 150 of Excel′s most useful functions, how they work within formulas, and how to use them to make your life easier. See how to use 150 of Excel′s most useful functions, with real–world examples showing how each function is used within a formula Learn to calculate the costs of leasing versus buying a car, compute classroom grades, create an amortization table, or evaluate investment performance Fully updated for Excel 2010, but the principles will work with earlier versions of Excel as well Includes essential coverage of an additional 85 functions In the ever–popular, non–threatening For Dummies style, Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes Excel′s power accessible to you.