1. Spreadsheets in Finance and Forecasting Lecture 12 Revision (part 2)

2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT The deadline for the Project is Friday May 7 th 2005 Please note that the latest time that your project will be accepted into the IBITE office is 3:00pm

3. Objectives The purpose of this session is to: summarise what sorts of things you are expected to be able to to, and to what levels clarify the topics that you will be tested on in the examination explain the format and the structure of the examination

4. The Exam Part 2 Part 2 of the exam concentrates on the material developed in weeks 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the module. However, this relies in large measure on material developed during the weeks 1-5 of the module. This means that you should expect to be asked to do things in this exam that might have been taught earlier on.

5. The Topics You will be assessed on your ability to: create and format spreadsheets create and use functions and formulae work with scenarios and solve problems create and use forms and databases create and use boxes and buttons Write short macros and modify VB code

6. Functions and Formulas You should be able to devise formulas such as: =$D15*B6+$D17*B7+$D19*B9 which might require you to use a mixture of absolute and relative cell referencing

7. Functions and Formulas In addition, you should be able to use the help files, to find out about functions such as: FV, PMT, DB

8. Functions and Formulas Also, you should be able to use combinations of functions (for example ‘if’ and ‘vlookup’) to produce formulas such as: =IF(A6=TRUE, VLOOKUP(B6,table,4), ””)

9. Scenarios and Solutions On a spreadsheet such as this:

10. Scenarios and Solutions You should be able to use: Scenarios Goal Seek

11. Buttons You should be able to create working versions from scratch of pages like:

12. Buttons You will need to be able to link buttons to take inputs from spreadsheet cells To output to spreadsheet cells

13. Buttons You also need to be able to use the output of buttons to link to calculations Formula: =VLOOKUP(R5,Prices,3) Formula: =VLOOKUP(R5,Prices,3)

14. Macros You should also be able to create macros to automate short tasks and attach them to buttons:

15. Typical Macro Tasks Switching Pages Sliding pages in/out of view Copying and Pasting ranges Sorting data Carrying out sequences of operations

16. Visual Basic Code You should also be able to understand and modify VB code in the VB Editor

17. Typical VB Code Tasks Modifying Lines in macros Message Boxes (MsgBox) Input Boxes (InputBox) Using ‘If’ statements (If… EndIf) Using different cell address modes: Range(“A1”) Cells(1,1) Using Loops While.. Wend; For … Next