Spreadsheet Models for Managers
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Spreadsheet Models for Managers
| Simple example | 4/8 Session Links |
Demonstration
The worksheet “Example” 
in the demonstration
workbook illustrates this application of Convolution. Strictly speaking, though, this example
doesn’t meet the linearity criterion required for convolution to be valid. Specifically, when a
“negative hire” occurs — a layoff, firing, or resignation — the contribution to productivity
has a somewhat different shape from the shape of a “positive” hire. For a termination, the curve
just drops to zero immediately and directly. Thus, when we compute the effects of layoffs, we
must use a different shape, and this is the essence of the violation of linearity in this case.
But as long as there are no negative hires, we’re OK.
Most business applications of convolution do have this same problem. You can get around it pretty easily by handling negative hires separately, using a separate convolution operation with a separate base response.
Last Modified: Wednesday, 27-Apr-2016 04:15:26 EDT
The space character, in many cases, doesn’t change the value of a formula. For instance, these two formulas return the same value:
- =A1 + 2
- =A1+2
Some people think that well-placed spaces make formulas easier to read. Although that might be true, the practice is both inconvenient and extremely dangerous. More
Excel’s online help, and many of the how-to books you can buy, provide long lists of keystroke shortcuts for carrying out specific operations, such as inserting rows, selecting regions, or deleting columns. And they are useful.
But the true power of the keyboard comes not from using these particular commands. Rather, it comes from learning combinations that are useful for particular situations that you encounter frequently.
For instance, there’s no command for deleting the rows that contain the selected cells, but there is a combination:
- Shift+Space selects the rows that contain the selection.
- Ctrl+- deletes the now-selected rows.
And so, Shift+Space Ctrl+- deletes the rows containing the selection.
Learning a vast array of keystroke commands is probably less useful than learning the keystroke combinations that do exactly what you need to do most often.