Author Archives: Richard Petti

Improving Performance of Large Spreadsheets During Data Entry

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Use these tips to improve the performance of large spreadsheets. Continue reading

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What is Price Elasticity and How Can I Use It?

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Tweet Price elasticity models (also called demand elasticity models) attempt to express the relationship between prices and sales units for a product or products on a smooth curve. More precisely, the models answer this question: If I raise (or lower) the … Continue reading

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Financial Plan for Medical Services Businesses

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ModelSheet Software now offers a financial plan for medical services businesses. It contains features that are particular to medical services businesses: The patient model tracks patients and the medical procedures they receive. The model tracks populations of new and continuing … Continue reading

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Spreadsheet Applications for Startup Companies

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ModelSheet Software offers four customizable spreadsheet applications that are specifically designed for small startup companies. Financial Plan for a Small Business Sales Plan for a Small Startup Cash Flow for a Small Startup Cash Requirements for a Small Startup These … Continue reading

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Price Testing and Price Elasticity Spreadsheet Applications

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Key Issues in Pricing Decisions Under ordinary competitive market conditions, the primary objectives of pricing policies are to set prices that maximize revenue, or more to the point, to set prices that maximize profits. This simple statement of objectives hides … Continue reading

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Cash Flow Spreadsheet Application

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Cash flows have a central role in two aspects of financial analysis: liquidity (ability to pay the bills) and valuation (how much is a flow of cash payments worth). They appear in many financial analyses, such as business plans, and analyses … Continue reading

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Activity-Based Budget Spreadsheet Application

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Customizable spreadsheet temlate supports activity-based budgeting process. Continue reading

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ModelSheet Software to speak at M.I.T. Excel Users Group

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The founders of ModelSheet Software will speak at a meeting of the Excel Users Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on January 5, 2010 from 12 PM – 1 PM in building N42. Below is an abstract of the … Continue reading

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Automated Generation of a Worksheet or Workbook per Dimension Item

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Did you ever want to make a spreadsheet with one worksheet per department, per country, or per anything else that are organized in lists? The capability to make one worksheet per cost center will be a standard option in a … Continue reading

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Editing Dimensions and Time Series in ModelSheet Models

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We have some new advanced features for editing dimensions and time series of variable tables in workbooks. Dimensions ModelSheet offers several levels of control of dimensions. (An example of a dimension is a product line with product families and child products … Continue reading

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