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WEIDA, NANCY C.; RICHARDSON, RONNY; AND VAZSONYI, ANDREW 2001, Operations Analysis Using Microsoft Excel, Duxbury, Pacific Grove, California, 370 pp., $24.00.
An increasing number of books concern how to use spreadsheets in different business environments, from capital budgeting to decision making. All exploit the easy computation capabilities and resources of Excel, which were not available in the past. What do these books offer in comparison to a traditional book on operations management, for example, Chase, Aquilano, and Jacobs (1998)? Why should I buy this book instead of a detailed Excel book?
Operations Analysis Using Microsoft Excel covers 13 topics in its 14 chapters and two appendices. The first chapter is an introduction to management problem solving. One of the appendices is a brief Excel review of...