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Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook

By : Andre Odnoha
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Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook

By: Andre Odnoha

Overview of this book

<p>Excel is one of the mostused software tools in the world and just about every business has a copy somewhere. Despite its power and flexibility it is not always clear how to use it to perform some of the most important tasks in any business: organizing, analysing, and presenting financial information.<br /><br />Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook contains a rich collection of useful techniques for handling financial data in Excel. From integrating data from a variety of different sources, through organazing and analyzing financial data, to presenting it in a variety of graphical forms, this book has you covered.<br /><br />The book deals first with "normalizing" financial data -- that is, bringing data from a number of different sources into a single format where you can analyze them together. Then you'll learn techniques for managing and analyzing the data before discovering ways to present it graphically. The book then looks at Excel's built in features for financial analysis, and even shows how you can combine the built in features to build your own analysis functions.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a dashboard for financial functions while minimizing Excel


Many of the "beyond the grid" elements that can be added to Excel still require that the application of Excel to show to the user. This begins to diminish the customization of the application functions that you create. When presenting an end user with the application functions such as loan applications, timesheet creation, or transaction processing, hiding Excel will add a level of security and functionality that far surpasses windows overlapping the Excel program.

In this recipe, you will learn to create a dashboard for VBA financial functions that will remove the Excel application from view and function as a standalone secure application.

Getting ready

VBA is highly functional and customizable creating an almost limitless number of possible functions. When creating the dashboard, you will use CommandButtons to launch different functions; it is important that you define the functions that you will assign to the dashboard...