Spreadsheet Models for Managers

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If Spreadsheet Models for Managersyou use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or business transactions, this course will change your life. You’ll learn how to create tools for yourself that will amaze even you. Unrestricted use of this material is available in two ways.

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Spreadsheet Models for Managers

Examples of VBA function macros 13/8
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Function GeometricMean(number1 As Double, _
                       number2 As Double) As Double
    GeometricMean = Sqr(number1 * number2)
End Function
Function EOQ(demand As Double, unitPrice As Double, _
             	orderCost As Double, _
             	carryCost As Double) As Double
   EOQ = Sqr(2 * demand * orderCost / _
             (unitPrice * carryCost)) 
End Function

Here are two examples of function macros. If you’ve never seen a macro before, fear not. This is a chance just to look at one. At this point, you’re not expected to understand what they do or how to write them.

The first macro computes the geometric mean of two numbers. The second computes the EOQ given the demand, the unit price, the cost to order, and the cost to hold.

Each macro definition tells Excel that the macro is a function macro, what the name of the macro is, what its arguments are, what their data types are, what the data type of the return value is, and how to compute the return value.

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Email: rbrenner@ChacoCanyon.com

Rick Brenner
Chaco Canyon Consulting
700 Huron Avenue, Suite 19C
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Last Modified: Wednesday, 27-Apr-2016 04:15:26 EDT

Function Macros

We focus on function macros in this course because they’re more likely than command macros to make a real difference in your facility with constructing models. For instance, when your customer wants to see result streams displayed as [Month1, Month2, Month3, Q1 Total, Month4, Month5, Month6, Q2 Total, …], you probably realize that such a layout makes copy/paste and fill very inconvenient. A macro can provide a simple means of producing the preferred layout from a more easily maintained pure month structure. It’s also easy to construct macros for running sums and running differences. Can you think of other applications for function macros that make your models easier to build and maintain?

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