Iginla2010

Excel seems to be most important (combined with add-ons from e.g. Bloomberg).
At the moment I wish I knew BIRT Spreadsheet and Crystal Reports, combined with deep SQL knowledge and outer and inner joins etc.

dyga

I like Matlab and R.

Iginla2011

Excel is pretty standard for most stuff.  A lot of the shortcuts help.
A little VBA can add an extra “pow” to your excel work.
R/Matlab is good for modeling and running simulations of stuff too complex to do in excel.  It’s nice for scripting too.
I like Stata for stats, though I might do stats in R as well just because I use it so much.
It’s useful to know how to navigate Bloomberg or CapitalIQ or FactSet, but ultimately it shouldn’t take long to pick up the aspects of these systems that you need.

waldziuchna

anyone use Eviews at work?

marsilni

Eviews is for kids …j/k….when i was writing my dissertation the school i attended was migrating away from using EVIEWS in lectures/seminars because (according to the proffessors) it was not powerful enough…instead we were encouraged to use S-PLUS/MATLAB

yospaghetti

Any tips on how to get free Advanced Excel?