Tag: Business Analysis

Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel is a practical guide with exercises and solutions throughout. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and methods that will help you apply Excel to solve mathematical problems.

Alistair Day clearly explains the basic calculations for mathematical finance backed up with simple templates for further use and development, together with examples. The new edition includes the addition of end of chapter exercises to help you develop your knowledge. The accompanying CD allows you to use and adapt templates and models. 

Book Details:

Paperback: 384 pages

Publisher: FT Press; 2nd Edition (July 17, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Alistair Day

Category: Business Books, Finance Books

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Performance dashboards have become the preferred way for busy executives, managers, and staff to monitor key business metrics at a glance and move swiftly through layers of actionable information to get the insight they need to solve problems quickly, efficiently, and effectively.

Written by Wayne Eckerson, a recognized expert and consultant in the field of business intelligence, —Performance Dashboards, Second Edition shows how performance dashboards focus business people on the right things to do and arm them with relevant information to do things right. Eckerson’s tips, techniques, and practical insights provide a strategic road map to help organizations turbocharge performance management initiatives with dashboard technology to optimize performance and accelerate results.

Book Details:

Hardcover: 318 pages

Publisher: Wiley; 2nd Edition (November 9, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Wayne W. Eckerson

Category: Business Books, Business Management Books

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Value Above Cost is A Breakthrough Approach to Managing and Measuring Customer Value–and Maximizing Financial Performance!

• Establish rock-solid linkages among marketing, branding, and business performance

• Use CVA® to structure your organization and develop winning strategies that maximize contribution

• Contains practical tools and worksheets you can start using right now

• Learn from the experiences contributed by senior executives from more than 30 leading organizations

Book Details:

Hardcover: 368 pages

Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; 1 edition (April 16, 2009)

Language: English

Author: Donald E. Sexton

Category: Business Books, Finance Books

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Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions focuses on the link between different types of culture (national, corporate, professional) and the success of strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions.

Over the past decades we have seen a significant increase in the number of strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions. Despite this proliferation many recent studies have reported high failure rates. This failure is often attributed to cultural differences between partners, which has led to a growing body of literature on the subject.

To date, most of these studies have focused on national and corporate culture, whereas this book also places particular emphasis on the importance of culture at the professional level. The authors clearly show that all three levels of culture may have a profound impact upon the ultimate success or failure of alliances, mergers and acquisitions.

Book Details:

Hardcover: 289 pages

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (May 2010)

Language: English

Editor: Jan Ulijn, Geert Duysters and Elise Meijer

Category: Business Books, Mergers and Acquisitions Books

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Data warehousing. Source data. Business intelligence.

You’ve heard the buzzwords before, but what is your business doing with these priceless mountains of data it generates? Are you using this information properly to gain a competitive edge? Or are you just sitting on it?

Now you can discover how your company can take information created in the general course of business and put it to work to boost corporate performance. Taking a holistic—rather than a technical—approach, Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting explores why business analytics (BA) should be important to you, whether you’re in sales, marketing, management, finance, HR, production, or analysis.

Book Details:

Hardcover: 272 pages

Publisher: Wiley (July 13, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Gert Laursen and Jesper Thorlund

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Maximize your online marketing

• Define a successful, ROI-focused online strategy
• Leverage the tools, vendors, and team structure that work best for your business
• Install and configure Google Analytics, or learn to tell your Webmaster what you need
• Understand analysis concepts, features, and reports
• Analyze what Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Bing can offer
• Learn to successfully engage users through blogs, social media, and e-mail
• Learn which metrics matter and how to measure the success of SEO, display ads, and other tools

Book Details:

Paperback: 456 pages

Publisher: Wiley (May 10, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Sebastian Tonkin, Caleb Whitmore and Justin Cutroni

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