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AuditNet® Book Review
Analyzing Business Data with Excel
By Gerald Knight
The key to making the right business decisions often rests with the timely analysis of information. It is also critical that business managers use the right tools for that analysis. Most auditors have Microsoft Office installed on their computers and use Excel on a regular basis for audit purposes. Excel is a powerful tool however most auditors use only a small portion of the application’s features. This book provides auditors with new analytical capabilities using a tool with which they are comfortable. There are techniques that demonstrate how to use the statistical and programming capabilities applicable to business problems. This is definitely not a book for beginners to teach you how to use Excel but rather a guide to utilizing the software’s advanced capabilities. The one thing that the publisher could add to this would be a CD containing the sample applications. The analytical features of Excel are applicable to all business managers and auditors could use this book to enlighten clients as to new ways of examining data for making business decisions.
