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This book provides the necessary knowledge for building advanced systems for quantitative analysis in Excel.
It covers all relevant aspects of programming with VBA which are necessary for building a decision support system and introduces the concepts by examples often found in the book "Practical Management Science" from Winston and Albright. From a didactic point of view the structure is very good because the first examples are easy to understand while the later ones are quite sophisticated. All in all it is an excellent textbook for teaching graduate MBA students who are interested in programming and have a good background in management science.

I don't know why nobody wrote any review on this excellent Excel VBA book, but I can't wait any longer. I have had it since May - based on the recommendation from the author's colleague, Dr. Wayne Winston, who wrote another good Excel book on using Excel formulas and Addin to make financial models. In my first week reading, I knew 5 starts are not fair enough for this book. Now I think even 15 stars are too less. It's packed with so many clever VBA examples you can't find in any 5 star books. The author is too humble to use "advanced" or "complete" on the title, but only presents to the readers good VBA examples on each topics (from programming skills to business application), moving on the learning curve gradually and explaining the logic and construction of the program step by step. When I read this book, I have the feeling as reading a good chess book written by a chess master. I hope more authors of computer programming books can do the same thing. The main title of the book is too modest, while the subtitle may keep most readers away. In fact, you really don't have to take Management Sceince or MBA courses to understand the examples (I never took business courses, but read some books on finance and investment). Besides, I think any kind of readers would be benifited from this book, but non-programmer readers or those who don't have general business background may not be able to finish the whole book. At last but not the least, the book has very few unimportant error, but the code on the CD is error-free and works. Try it, you will join with me to add more stars to this book. If you haven't read this book, you haven't read any real "advanced" Excel VBA book yet.

Absolutely agree with Mr.Weiqin Xie. I took this book from corporative library with intention to get help for my first degree completion project in Industrial management, where I really needed to increase my productivity in processing a lot of data,
and just can't bring it back extending my holding over and over again. I have already ordered it and waiting for delivery. I not only successfully completed the project but started to develop useful utilities in my job and decision support application for my investments needs and all of this owing to just few first chapters.