For a one- or two-term course in Business Statistics at the undergraduate or graduate level. Thoroughly integrating the use of Microsoft Excel, this streamlined text on business statistics uses an applied approach that focuses on the concepts and applications of statistics to the functional areas of business-accounting, marketing, management, and economics and finance. Revised to increase the emphasis on concepts and applications and to more seamlessly integrate coverage on Microsoft Excel, it offers detailed, step-by-step explanations on the use of Microsoft Excel to perform statistical analysis on every topic covered in the book and integrates numerous illustrations of Excel output and dialog boxes.