Free analytical business solutions for education
Business Spreadsheets has launched an educational program by providing free analytical solutions to students and academic staff in higher learning institutions. The program offers Excel solutions free for educational purposes by allowing student and academic staff complementary registration information for sophisticated Excel based tools. The solutions are designed and are widely used for real world business applications and decision making and can serve for students and teachers to understand commonly used financial and analytical concepts in the classroom and at home. The program coincides with the new Microsoft policy of making Microsoft office 365 freely available to selected academic institutions. Business Spreadsheets develops and provides Excel template models for business finance, analysis and management decision making. Financial market topics covered by the applications cover financial portfolio management, technical analysis, real options and hedging. Business fundamentals and operations subjects covered by the solutions include business valuation with economic value added, multivariate regression predictive analytics with feature selection for forecasting, and project management with monitoring methods. Each solution is accompanied by detailed help and support material which explain concepts and calculation logic to assist with learning programs and can freely referenced within course curricula. The solutions provided by Business Spreadsheets are widely used in businesses of all sizes internationally. The ability for students to use and become familiar with the analytic tools allows to not only learn from the theoretic applications of analytical logic but also a head start on employing the concepts in real world applications when entered the workforce. Business school and MBA students as well as professors and teaching staff within academic institutions can register for the program and immediately receive information and materials for higher learning programs.