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Description: EXCEL SALES FORECASTING FOR DUMMIES Publisher's Note: Organize Sales Data, Chart A Baseline, Forecast Trends And More With Excel! When they first told you that forecasting sales would be part of your job, did you feel just the tiniest bit of panic? Did you momentarily consider consulting the Yellow Pages for listings of Psychics or Tea Leaf Readers? Well, fear not. Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies can help you predict the future without incense or a crystal ball. Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies shows you how to use the number one workbook program, Microsoft Excel, to predict trends and future sales based on something not quite so ethereal numbers. You use data about the past to forecast the future. Excel provides all sorts of tools to help you do that, and this book shows you how to use them. From recognizing why forecasting is a good idea to making sense of exponential smoothing, Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies has you covered. If You Have a Basic Grasp of How to Use Excel, You Will Be Ready to Discover How To: • Select and use the right forecasting method for your business • Choose and arrange data in lists, then manage that data with pivot tables • Filter lists and turn them into charts that illustrate what is going on • Find relationships in your data • Use Excels Analysis Toolpak feature to create forecasts automatically, or venture into advanced forecasts using worksheet functions • Gain more control over your forecasting and target specific types of predictions • Use moving averages and predict seasonal sales Written by CONRAD CARLBERG, a nationally recognized expert on Excel who also has experience in sales and marketing, this friendly guide gets you up and running quickly and easily. You will soon be setting up a baseline you can chart and label, summarizing data with pivot tables, making forecasts based on regression, understanding correlation, and discovering how smoothing lets us profit from our mistakes. You will find your confidence in your ability to make sales predictions has soared right off the chart. Introduction Part I: Understanding Sales Forecasting and How Excel Can Help. Chapter 1: A Forecasting Overview. Chapter 2: Forecasting: The Basic Issues. Chapter 3: Understanding Baselines. Chapter 4: Predicting the Future: Why Forecasting Works. Part II: Organizing the Data.Chapter 5: Choosing Your Data: How to Get a Good Baseline. Chapter 6: Setting Up Lists in Excel. Chapter 7: Working with Lists in Excel Part III: Making a Basic Forecast. Chapter 8: Summarizing Sales Data with Pivot Tables.Chapter 9: Charting Your Baseline: It's a Good Idea. Chapter 10: Forecasting with Excel's Analysis ToolPak. Chapter 11: Basing Forecasts on Regression Part IV: Making Advanced Forecasts. Chapter 12: Entering the Formulas Yourself. Chapter 13: Using Moving Averages. Chapter 14: Evaluating a Moving Average. Chapter 15: Smoothing: How You Profit from Your Mistakes. Chapter 16: Fine-Tuning a Regression Forecast. Chapter 17: Managing Trends. Chapter 18: Same Time Last Year: Forecasting Seasonal Sales Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 19: Ten Pivot Table Troubles - and How to Overcome Them. Chapter 20: The Ten Best Excel Tools. Index. --------------------------------------- CLICK ON OUR STORE LINK FOR MORE BUSINESS & EDUCATIONAL BOOKS --------------------------------------- FAST SHIPPING! NEXT DAY or SAME DAY Shipping as we ship normally the same day as the payment is received unless the mail pickup has taken place for the day. We will combine shipping when possible PLEASE NOTE THE PRIORITY FLAT RATE ENVELOPE ONLY HOLDS ONE BOOK $2 Media Mail Shipping For Each Additional Book Request An Invoice OR You can purchase all of your books first AND make ONE payment Using Ebay's Shopping Cart Some books may have minor scuff, crease and/or scratch marks on the covers from shelf wear, but have not been read. We will list imperfections in the beginning of auctions if there is more shelf wear than normal. PAYMENT & SHIPPING PayPal Payments and credit cards are accepted through eBay check out even if you do not have a PayPal Account or forgot your password to PayPal. We combine shipping to ONE shipping address when possible. Will ship the same day of payment OR next day, depending on if the mail has been picked up for. We combine shipping to ONE shipping address when possible

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