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Introduction to Business Analytics https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/1265454345.jpeg 1 2024 9781265454340 Introduction to Business Analytics recognizes that students need to develop the skills to ask the right questions, learn to use common workplace tools (such as Excel®, Tableau®, and Power BI®) to examine and analyze data, and interpret results accurately and effectively to make business decisions. Richardson 1e provides a framework for developing a business analytics mindset called the SOAR analytics model which is composed of four steps— Specify the question, Obtain the data, analyze the data, and report the results. This model is used throughout the text in conjunction with the various types of data analysis that analysts need to perform. The lab activities, which appear at the end of each chapter, follow this framework to reinforce the analytical process. A capstone in the final chapter provides three projects that apply the complete SOAR model.
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Introduction to Business Analytics
Introduction to Business Analytics

Introduction to Business Analytics, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 1265454345 | ISBN13: 9781265454340
By Vernon Richardson and Marcia Watson
© 2024

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Introduction to Business Analytics recognizes that students need to develop the skills to ask the right questions, learn to use common workplace tools (such as Excel®, Tableau®, and Power BI®) to examine and analyze data, and interpret results accurately and effectively to make business decisions. Richardson 1e provides a framework for developing a business analytics mindset called the SOAR analytics model which is composed of four steps— Specify the question, Obtain the data, analyze the data, and report the results. This model is used throughout the text in conjunction with the various types of data analysis that analysts need to perform. The lab activities, which appear at the end of each chapter, follow this framework to reinforce the analytical process. A capstone in the final chapter provides three projects that apply the complete SOAR model.

Chapter 1: Specify the Question: Using Business Analytics to Address Business Questions  

Chapter 2: Obtain the Data: An Introduction to Business Data Sources  

Chapter 3: Analyze the Data: Basic Statistics and Tools Required in Business Analytics  

Chapter 4: Analyze the Data: Exploratory Business Analytics (Descriptive Analytics and Diagnostic Analytics)  

Chapter 5: Analyze the Data: Confirmatory Business Analytics (Predictive Analytics and Prescriptive Analytics)  

Chapter 6: Report the Results: Using Data Visualization  

Chapter 7: Marketing Analytics  

Chapter 8: Accounting Analytics  

Chapter 9: Financial Analytics  

Chapter 10: Operations Analytics  

Chapter 11: Advanced Business Analytics  

Chapter 12: Using the SOAR Analytics Model to Put It All Together: Three Capstone Projects  

Appendix A: Excel Tutorial (Formatting, Sorting, Filtering, and Using Pivot Tables)  

Appendix B: Tableau Tutorial  

Appendix C: Power BI Desktop Tutorial  

Appendix D: Basic Statistics Tutorial  

Appendix E: Installing Excel’s Analysis ToolPak Add-In  

Appendix F: Installing Excel’s Solver Add-In  


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About the Author

Vernon Richardson

Vernon J. Richardson is Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the G. William Glezen Chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and a Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. He received his B.S., Masters of Accountancy, and MBA from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught students at the University of Arkansas, University of Illinois, Brigham Young University, Aarhus University, University of Kansas, and the China Europe International Business School (Shanghai), Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University and the University of Technology Sydney.

Dr. Richardson is a member of the American Accounting Association. He has served as president of the American Accounting Association Information Systems section. He previously served as editor of The Accounting Review and is currently editor at the Accounting Horizons. He has published articles in the Accounting Review, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, MIS Quarterly, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and Journal of Marketing.

Marcia Watson

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