CIS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Down Payment, Killer Application, Visicalc
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The heart and soul of accounting the application that made pc"s an integral part of the business workplace visicalc in 1979 the first killer app : excel is the market leader today. Automates many tasks associated with spreadsheet creation and manipulation -talked about history of pc"s. Financial statements are presented on spreadsheets financial information on companies edgar : electronic data-gathering, analysis, and retrieval system operated by. Sec: securities & exchange commission search edgar http://www. sec. gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers. htm. Company filings- reports companies have to file with sec. Numeric analysis sort, group, filter, highlight find largest, smallest, average . Graphical analysis columns, bars, pies plots. What will be the change in our profit if our cost of raw materials increases by 10% Excel facilitates answering such questions by automatically recalculating everything that depends on x when you change the value of x modeling a situation with a set of equations.