Excel 2019 – Business Basics & Beyond
Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful tools a business owner, manager, or new employee has at their disposal, and this guide teaches how to harness business data and put it to use within the program. Using real-world examples of a small business in operation, the book covers topics such as preparing financial statements; how to best display data for maximum impact with formatting tools, data tables, charts and pivot tables; using customer information to create customized letters with mail merge; importing data from programs such as QuickBooks; calculating the costs of doing business with financial formulas; and much more. Helpful screenshots are spread throughout the text, and the book explains how to find ready-made templates online for free.
Chris "Smitty" Smith is a content developer on the Excel team at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, he was a trainer/lecturer for a wide variety of corporate clients, including the U.S. Department of Treasury, CalTrans, Apple, Verizon, General Electric, and many others.
Smitty has over 25 years of business experience using Excel. Prior to corporate life, he worked as a Ranch Manager in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming and Australia after graduating from the Ranch Management program at TCU. He fondly remembers convincing ranch owners to move from paper ledgers to spreadsheets. When he is not busy at work, he is an avid Rock & Ice climber and occasional mountaineer. He lives in Seattle Washington with his wife, daughter and their mediocre Pyrenees dog, Ellie.
