The Solver add-in for Microsoft Excel is one of the most important, so we can understand the frustrations when users cannot get it to work as they hope. In older versions of Excel, folks had to ...

Excel can convert currency given the right tools. While there are dozens of currency conversion websites or other conversion tools that you can use online or purchase, they work best for looking up ...

A popular add-on for helping Excel users creating optimization models has made its return to Excel 2008. Solver for Excel had been among the casualties of Microsoft’s decision to drop Visual Basic for ...

An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

Stratified mean-per-unit sampling is a key tool used by auditors. The popularity of this statistical procedure arises from its unique ability to produce trustworthy ...