Q. How does the Scenario Manager in Excel work? A. Microsoft Excel’s Scenario Manager is a powerful tool for making informed financial decisions. It allows users to create and manage multiple data ...

Susan Harkins continues her review of Excel’s analysis tools with Scenario Manager. Last month, we used Goal Seek to determine the most reasonable mortgage payment within a specific budget. This month ...

How scenario analysis tools can help investors manage financial risk and evaluate returns. Forecasting is a no-win situation. If you get it right, people go about their business. But if it’s wrong, ...

Excel offers three what-if analysis tools that can sharpen your decision-making and help you find the best route to accomplish your objectives. This ebook introduces these tools—Goal Seek, Scenario ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Q. I often save multiple versions of the same Excel file (usually with differing assumptions) and later have difficulty telling which file is which when I want to revert to a previous version. Any ...