Spreadsheet Modelling:

• Aim and purpose:
  This unit aims to enable learners to use complex spreadsheet modelling in order to support organisational
  activities such as credit control, sales forecasting and stock analysis.

• Unit introduction:
  Spreadsheets are key software for many businesses and organisations, helping them to keep track of
  numerical information and analyse it quickly and more easily than with paper records.
  Accounting and finance use spreadsheets to record the transactions made by organisations. They have
  replaced manual pages in ledgers, where income and expenditure are organised into rows and columns.
  Users can make use of inbuilt functionality to help them to understand the data without needing specialist
  mathematical skills.
  Utilities such as ordering, sorting and filtering will show the same data in different ways. Charts and graphs
  help to display information more visually. Complex calculations can be carried out using library functions or
  users can choose to create their own formulae.
  One of the main advantages of spreadsheet software is that it can be customised with buttons and macros. IT
  practitioners can use many features, for example to restrict user access to whole workbooks, spreadsheets or
  parts of spreadsheets.