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Introduction to What-If Analysis Tool
Using What-If Analysis tool in Excel several different sets of
values in one or more formulas to explore all the various results.
What-if analysis is a powerful tool for financial modeling and
decision-making. It involves changing input variables to
analyze different scenarios and potential impacts.
For example, you can do What-If Analysis to build two budgets
that each assumes a certain level of revenue. Or, you can
specify a result that you want a formula to produce, and then
determine what sets of values will produce that result.
Excel provides several different tools to help you perform the
type of analysis that fits your needs.
What-If Analysis is the process of changing the values in cells to
see how those changes will affect the outcome of formulas on
the worksheet.
Key Features of What-If Analysis:
Dynamic and Interactive: Instantly see
how changes in variables affect results
Decision Making: Helps in making informed
decisions by analyzing different scenarios
Visualization: Can use charts to visualize
the impact of various scenarios
Ease of Use: Simple to set up with built-in
Excel features
Flexibility: Can be used for budgeting,
financial modeling, forecasting, and more
Manipulation of
Data
• Total Revenue
• Total expenses
• Cost of goods sold (COGS)
• Earnings per share
• Taxes
• Inflation
• Liability costs
• Interest rates
Tools in What if Analysis in Excel
Scenarios
Goal seek
Data Tables
Scenario
A Scenario is a set of values that Excel saves and can
substitute automatically on your worksheet.
You can create and save different groups of values as
scenarios and then switch between these scenarios to view
the different results.
If several people have specific information that you want to
use in scenarios, you can collect the information in separate
workbooks, and then merge the scenarios from the different
workbooks into one.
After you have all the scenarios you need, you can create a
scenario summary report that incorporates information from
all the scenarios.
Scenarios are managed with the Scenario Manager
wizard from the What-If Analysis group on the Data tab.
Goal Seek
If you know the result that you want from a formula,
but are not sure what input value the formula needs to
get that result, use the Goal Seek feature.
You know how much money you want, how long you
want to take to pay off the loan, and how much you can
afford to pay each month.
You can use Goal Seek to determine what interest rate
you will need to secure in order to meet your loan goal.
Example
In goal seek we already know our output value we have
to find the correct input value. For example, if
a student wants to know his English marks and he
knows all the rest of the marks and total marks in all
Data Tables
A data table is a range of cells in which you can change values
in some of the cells and come up with different answers to a
problem.
A good example of a data table employs the PMT function
with different loan amounts and interest rates to calculate the
affordable amount on a home mortgage loan.
Experimenting with different values to observe the
corresponding variation in results is a common task in data
analysis
Helps to see the results of multiple input values by creating a
table that shows how changing one or two variables affects
the result.
There are two types of data tables:
One-Variable Data Table: Allows you to see how changes in
one variable affect one or more formulas.
Two-Variable Data Table: Shows how changes in two
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