This market-leading text emphasizes the fundamental concepts of modeling and the use of spreadsheets in a business decision-making context, taking a hands-on approach to creating decision models using spreadsheets. It exposes students to a variety of challenges a manager may face in the areas of marketing, finance, operations and human resources so that students can develop appropriate modeling techniques to solve on-going business issues and provide clear solutions. This edition features a wealth of realistic, relevant examples to actively engage students in model building and analysis. All examples are consistent with Excel 365 and @Risk software.