Ever feel like you’re spending more time wrestling with Excel than actually analyzing your data? For accounting and finance professionals, the pressure to deliver accurate, insightful reports—often ...

Although Excel, the Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, has a few specialized financial formulas built in to the software program, the accounting format for spreadsheet cells has the most general ...

Tables, named ranges, line breaks, modern functions, and helper columns make Excel formulas easier to read, audit, and fix.

As a long-time Excel user, I have learned a few tricks that have helped me in my career. Excel is one of the best resources available to summarize any type of numerical information, and being ...

Excel gives the answer 10. If you have a mathematical background, you’ll know why Excel gives a different answer to such a simple calculation — and why, technically, Excel is right. If you don’t have ...

Q. How do I spill formulas in Excel? A. Spilling is a feature available in Excel 365 and later versions. With spilling, you can create a formula in one cell, and that formula will then spill over into ...

The generally accepted accounting principles give an accounting guideline that allows third parties to fairly evaluate account records. The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board keeps a handbook ...

Perform an Internet search on "Excel Hell" or "spreadsheet errors" and you'll quickly be reaching for the Maalox. Statistics stating that 90 percent of spreadsheets contain some type of error, and ...

If we could impart one reality to our small business clients, it’s this: if you’re not intimately in touch with your business’s financial health, you’re leaving money on the table. Period. It’s ...