Introduction to Business Analytics 1st Edition By Vernon Richardson – Solution Manual

Answer Guide For The Fundamentals of Business Analytics 1st Edition By Vernon Richardson

ISBN10: 1265454345
ISBN13: 9781265454340

The Fundamentals of Business Analytics recognizes the necessity for students to cultivate the skills to pose relevant inquiries, acquire proficiency in using common workplace applications (such as Excel®, Tableau®, and Power BI®) to scrutinize and decipher data, and interpret outcomes precisely and effectively to formulate corporate decisions. Richardson 1e presents a structure for fostering a business analytics mindset known as the SOAR analytics pattern comprising of four stages— Outline the inquiry, Gather the data, scrutinize the data, and communicate the findings. This design is implemented throughout the text in conjunction with the diverse forms of data analysis that analysts are required to undertake. The practical exercises, featured at the conclusion of each section, abide by this structure to amplify the analytic procedure. A final project in the concluding section provides three assignments that encompass the comprehensive SOAR model.

Index

Chapter 1: Pose the Inquiry: Employing Analytics to Tackle Corporate Queries

Chapter 2: Procure the Information: A Primer on Corporate Data Sources

Chapter 3: Scrutinize the Information: Fundamental Data and Tools Essential in Business Analytics

Chapter 4: Scrutinize the Information: Preliminary Business Analytics (Descriptive Analytics and Diagnostic Analytics)

Chapter 5: Scrutinize the Information: Validating Business Analytics (Predictive Analytics and Prescriptive Analytics)

Chapter 6: Communicate the Findings: Employing Data Visualization

Chapter 7: Marketing Analytics

Chapter 8: Accounting Analytics

Chapter 9: Financial Analytics

Chapter 10: Operations Analytics

Chapter 11: Advanced Business Analytics

Chapter 12: Implementing the SOAR Analytics Design to Consolidate: Three Culminating Projects

Appendix A: Excel Training (Layout, Sorting, Filtering, and Utilizing Pivot Tables)

Appendix B: Tableau Workshop

Appendix C: Power BI Desktop Workshop

Appendix D: Basic Statistics Workshop

Appendix E: Setting up Excel’s Analysis ToolPak Add-In

Appendix F: Setting up Excel’s Solver Add-In