BC 2015 Session 8

Agenda:
1. New in Excel: Goal Seek, INDIRECT and ADDRESS
2. MATCH-OFFSET and MA Trading Rule problem
3. Other practice problems

Goal Seek spreadsheet

Basically, Goal Seek is a cascaded equation solver
Cannot solve an equation in certain common situations
File Goal Seek demo

Chapter 21 of your textbook

Open MatchOffset Demo file.
Write formula using MATCH-OFFSET that finds sales of a
given product during a given year. Can you think of one
other way ?
Matradingrule.xlsx: buy stock when price moves above 15month average, sell when it dips below.
Experiment with various D. Use the one-way data table with
the OFFSET function to show scenarios.
File Lagged.xlsx is about US Army magazine ads in 60
months. Calculated Lagged values using the offset function.

Chapter 22 of your textbook

Open Indirect demo: Use INDIRECT to calculate total
sales for any combination of consecutively numbered
products, e.g. 1-3
Open Indirect Consolidate: Use INDIRECT to compose a
2D table with all values per month. Hint: fetch by
composing string (Region)!(Cell)
Open MarketbasketData.xlsx: for each item listed in
K9:K14 calculate the percentage of transactions in
which the item was purchased. Also calculate the
fraction of transactions taking place each day.

Traveling Salesman and

Evolutionary Solver
Download the File TSP