VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision Support Systems with Microsoft Office Excel

Albright, S.

ISBN 10: 1285869613 / ISBN 13: 9781285869612

Published by Cengage Learning, 2015

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Title: VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision ...

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: acceptable

Edition: 5th or later Edition

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Synopsis:

Help your students master both basic and advanced skills in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the programming language for Microsoft (R) Office, with this essential tool. Chris Albright's VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL, 5E provides everything you need to teach students how to automate common spreadsheet tasks as well as create the sophisticated management science applications needed in business today. The first half of the book introduces students to the fundamentals of VBA for Excel (R)., The second half puts knowledge into action as it illustrates how to automate a number of management science models using VBA. Students learn how to use applications to present a user-friendly interface for inputs and results. This new edition improves code readability, introduces PowerPivot and the Excel Data Model and demonstrates a new method to pass information between modules and user forms that avoids using global variables.

About the Author:

S. Christian Albright received both his B.S. degree in mathematics and his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford. He then taught in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University until his retirement in 2011. He taught courses in management science, computer simulation and statistics to all levels of business students, including undergraduate, M.B.A. and Ph.D. students. He has published more than 20 articles in leading operations research journals in applied probability. After retiring, he worked for several years for the Palisade software company. Now living in Hilton Head, SC, he continues to revise several successful textbooks, including this edition, PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE and VBA FOR MODELERS.