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This book will help readers acquire knowledge and equip them in handling various statistical and financial computations using MS Excel.

The book is designed to equip students to navigate through MS Excel spreadsheets to compute  various statistical and financial measures for use in data analysis. 

Basic Computational Techniques for Data Analysis illustrates the concepts used in economic and financial decision-making in business as well as in day-to-day life,  thus enhancing a deeper understanding of the concepts from both theoretical and practical perspectives. After going through the textbook, readers will be able to ascertain the inbuilt capabilities in MS Excel and comprehend basic computations in statistics and finance. 

This book is essential as a supportive companion for students of economics, commerce, management and social science subjects in general.

Key Features:

• Provides an in-depth and clear understanding of various data analysis techniques

• Systemic and stepwise explanation of financial and statistical concepts using MS Excel functions

• Prior knowledge of statistics, finance and MS-Excel functions not required to understand the concepts

• Simplistic clarification of topics such as Future Value of Money, Loan Amortization and Investment Decision Criteria

D. Narayana, Former Director, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram, is Chairman of Kerala Public Expenditure Review Committee. He is a renowned economist, researcher and statistician. He holds a PhD from Indian Statistical Institute. He held the Reserve Bank of India Chair at Centre for Development Studies during 2001–2012. He is the chairman of the committee on implementation of Karunya Arogya Suraksha Padhathi, Kerala, in alignment with Ayushman Bharat: Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana. He has published numerous articles in reputed national and international journals on health, state finance, decentralization, issues of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe communities, agriculture, irrigation and migrant labour. He has authored and co-edited many books and monographs. He also served as a member of many important committees including the Expert Committee on Goods and Services Tax, committee for revising the rates for the medical procedures under the centrally sponsored Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, constituted by the Government of Kerala.

Sharad Ranjan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening), University of Delhi, with a teaching experience of more than two decades. He is a PhD from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi. He has published many research
papers in various journals of repute such as Economic & Political Weekly, Social Scientist, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Productivity and Journal of Rural Development. He has also authored five books. He has conducted 100 workshops on financial literacy on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Board of India as resource person. He has also co-supervised and evaluated PhD theses.

Nupur Tyagi, an Assistant Professor at Gargi College, University of Delhi, has completed her graduation from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, and postgraduated from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is a rank holder in both BCom(H) and MCom. She is currently pursuing MPhil from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her area of interest is finance and accounting.