Teaching Spreadsheet Software in Business School Presented by Dr. Lei Li Dr. Philip Bryant

Introduction Spreadsheet Software – MS Excel Applications in Business Courses Use MS Excel as Main Tool  MISM 2115 – Technological Applications in Business Decision Making  BUSA 3115 – Quantitative Analysis for Business I

MISM What are Taught Formulas & Functions Charts Data Tables Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts What-If Analysis Workbook Management & Collaboration Imports and Web Queries

MISM 2115 – My Experience Learn by Doing  Pick a Good Textbook  Use Live Examples, not PowerPoint Humanize Excel  Fill Handle Make it Interesting  Functions, Absolute Reference

BUSA 3115 (“Quant I”) Excel is used in class as an aid in problem solving Data sets are worked through in class and forwarded to the students to work through outside of class to reinforce the concepts.

BUSA Using Excel for Multiple Regression Analysis An Example –Gold (x 1 ) –Silver (x 2 ) –Dow (y) Dow (y)Silver (x 1 )Gold (x 2 )