Part of the new Succeeding in Business Series, this text prepares students to analyze data and solve real-life business problems using Microsoft Excel 2003 as a tool. Benefits: * Emphasizes problem-solving, critical thinking, and analysis to challenge students to find efficient and effective solutions to business situations. * Introduces students gradually to more challenging and broader problems through three levels of complexity in each chapter. * Steps to Success activities within each level offer students the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned before moving to the next level. * Teaches students to deal not only with immediate problems, but the inevitable "what if" scenarios that occur in business situations. * Offers case problems (such as accounting, finance, marketing, and operations management) and Steps to Success activities that provide additional practice in a real-world context. * Feature boxes throughout the chapters provide quick references to steps needed to complete tasks, and tips to help students become more efficient users of Excel. * Reinforces basic skills that students need to know with the Succeeding in Business Skills Training CD, powered by SAM, and included in every book.