Financial Information Management Stefano Grazioli

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Financial Information Management USING IT FOR AUTOMATING BUSINESS PROCESSES

“There should be an app for that...”

Practical Business Uses  Insert boilerplate text. If you need to enter standard text into a range of cells, you can create a macro to do the typing for you.  Automate a task that you perform frequently. For example, you may need to prepare a month-end summary. If the task is straightforward, you can develop a macro to do it for you.  Create a custom command. For example, you can combine several Excel commands so that they’re executed from a single keystroke or from a single mouse click.  Create a simplified “front end” for users who don’t know much about Excel. For example, you can set up a foolproof data-entry template.  Develop a new worksheet function. Although Excel includes a wide assortment of built-in functions, you can create custom functions that greatly simplify your formulas.  Create complete macro-driven applications. Excel macros can display custom dialog boxes and respond to new commands added to the Ribbon.  Create custom add-ins for Excel. Most add-ins shipped with Excel were created with Excel macros. Source: John Walkenbach, Excel® 2010 Bible

Visual Studio is a tool to build applications  Integrated Development Environment  VS 2013 is state of the art  First version in 1997  $2.5B to develop the 2002 version  Free to you: about Dreamspark Visual Studio Excel

Requirements: What we want the computer to do How VS works Coding Visual Studio C#, VB, C++.exe.dll Source Code in a Computer Language Business Functionality Compiling Code in MSIL: MS Intermediate Language Common Language Runtime Virtual machine Mscoree.dll

Source Code in VB Sub FindDuplicates() ' Finds duplicates in a column of cells selected by the user NumberOfRows = Selection.Rows.Count For i = NumberOfRows To 1 Step -1 toCheck = ActiveCell ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select For j = 1 To i If ActiveCell = toCheck Then ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True ActiveCell.Font.ColorIndex = 3 End If ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select Next j ActiveCell.Offset(-i, 0).Select Next i End Sub Sub FindDuplicates() ' Finds duplicates in a column of cells selected by the user NumberOfRows = Selection.Rows.Count For i = NumberOfRows To 1 Step -1 toCheck = ActiveCell ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select For j = 1 To i If ActiveCell = toCheck Then ActiveCell.Font.Bold = True ActiveCell.Font.ColorIndex = 3 End If ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select Next j ActiveCell.Offset(-i, 0).Select Next i End Sub

Requirements: What we want the computer to do How VS works Coding Visual Studio C#, VB, C++.exe.dll Source Code in a Computer Language Business Functionality Compiling Code in MSIL: MS Intermediate Language Common Language Runtime Virtual machine Mscoree.dll

MSIL example.locals ([0] class System.Object V_0, [1] int32 V_1) IL_0000: ldarg.0 IL_0001: ldfld int32 Stack::m_size IL_0006: brtrue.s IL_000e IL_0008: newobj instance void ['mscorlib']System.NullReferenceException::.ctor() IL_000d: throw IL_000e: ldarg.0 IL_000f: ldfld class System.Object[] Stack::m_stack IL_0014: ldarg.0 IL_0015: dup IL_0016: ldfld int32 Stack::m_size IL_001b: ldc.i4.1 IL_001c: sub IL_001d: dup

Requirements: What we want the computer to do Two IDE tools Coding Visual Studio C#, VB, C++.exe.dll Source Code in a Computer Language Business Functionality Compiling Code in MSIL: MS Intermediate Language Common Language Runtime Virtual machine Mscoree.dll

Two tools to Work with Excel  VBA Editor  Included in Excel  Huge installed base  Older technology  Supported but not improved upon  Has a recorder  VSTO / Visual Studio  Included in VS  Smaller installed base  Newer, more powerful technology  Fully supported and updated  No recorder

Financial Information Management Homework #2

Suggestions  Give yourself plenty of time to do the homework.  or come and see me if you get stuck.