Chapter 18. Creating and Using Spinners for Sensitivity Analysis

  • I need to run a sensitivity analysis that has many key inputs, such as year 1 sales, annual sales growth, year 1 price, and year 1 unit cost. Is there a way I can quickly vary these inputs and see the effect of the variation on the calculation of net present value, for example?

The Scenario Manager lets you change a group of input cells and see how various spreadsheet outputs change. Unfortunately, the Scenario Manager requires you to enter each scenario individually, which makes it difficult to create more than a few scenarios. For example, suppose you believe that four key inputs to our car net present value (NPV) model are year 1 sales, sales growth, year 1 price, and year 1 ...

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