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This practical, one-day software training course is just what you need to learn about the most advanced analytical tools available in Crystal Ball Professional Edition, particularly if you’ve already used Crystal Ball and have recently upgraded to Professional Edition.

This class begins where Introduction to Crystal Ball ends. If you are new to Crystal Ball, or wish to review the basics, click here for training that covers the full suite of applications and tools available in Crystal Ball Professional Edition.

This one-day software training course will show you how to develop advanced Crystal Ball models, expedite the model building process and apply the analytical tools of Crystal Ball Professional Edition. Extend your understanding of Crystal Ball to include optimization, time-series forecasting and more. Part of the day is focused on how to make optimal decisions using the combined power of Crystal Ball and OptQuest, and the remainder covers time-series forecasting, advanced assumptions, forecast options and precision controls.

Who should attend?

This software training course is designed for intermediate and advanced Crystal Ball users who want to expand their modeling tool set. By the conclusion of this course, you will have covered most, if not all, of the suite of tools in the Professional Edition. We encourage attendees to bring along their own models to discuss with our expert trainers during breaks or after class.

This course will:

• Teach you the tools of Crystal Ball Professional
• Help you to make optimal decisions despite uncertain conditions
• Show you how to communicate the concept of risk to others
• Extend your ability to build and analyze spreadsheet risk models
• Provide you with handy tips, shortcuts, and modeling techniques
• Allow you to meet and network with other professionals
• Help you bring the necessary risk and decision analysis techniques back to your organization

Gain the skills necessary to make you a more confident, efficient, and
professional decision-maker.

Advanced preparation includes:

1. An introductory understanding of Excel
2. Competence with Windows operating systems (NT 4.0 or later)
3. Introduction to Crystal Ball or equivalent experience

Please click on the Order Online links below for current course fees. The course fee includes lunch and coffee breaks, handouts, manuals, and CDs with sample exercises. You must pay the course fee prior to attending the course.

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Advanced Crystal Ball is a group live software training course worth eight CPE credit hours (a credit hour is 50 minutes of training per hour). Decisioneering, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.

Program Level: Advanced Crystal Ball - Overview

State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. www.nasba.org.

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Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Actual start times vary by location. Please check your confirmation letter for actual start time) Lunch provided by Decisioneering.

Morning

Advanced Assumption Options

• Using alternate parameters
• Using a formula as a parameter
• Truncating assumption distributions
• Using a function as a distribution
• Customizing the distribution gallery
• Publishing and subscribing to distributions
  

Advanced Forecast Options

• Fit a distribution to a forecast
• Forecast filtering
• Auto extract forecast data
• Adding marker lines to forecast statistics
  

Advanced Simulation Control

• Precision control
• User defined macros
• 2D simulation
• Bootstrapping
  

Lunch (provided by Decisioneering)

Afternoon

OptQuest

• What is optimization?
• How OptQuest works
• Optimization applications
• Running OptQuest
• OptQuest results
• Efficient frontier
  

Predictor

• Time series forecasting
• Linear regression
  

A Taste of Real Options

Class Exercises