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Controlling costs in business

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Controlling costs in business

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- [Instructor] Business analysts are often asked to look at data and then opine on what might happen under a set of scenarios in the future. Excel can help us with this. Now we all know of course that we can build models to let us see what might happen in a scenario with Excel. But Excel also has scenario analysis tools that lets us go through and examine certain sets of circumstances. Let's take a look. I'm in the 04 08 begin Excel spreadsheet. Now what we've got here is a firm that has set of actual historical data for the last six months of 2020. And then they've got a hypothetical budget plan going forward in 2021. The firm wants to understand what might happen to their profitability at the end of the year. You know, it's a growing company, so they're trying to grow profits over time. They want to understand what might happen to that profitability as they change different things as different factors get changed in…

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