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 ...

If you run a business and need to manage your accounts, a spreadsheet can help to record the data and carry out any necessary calculations on it. Spreadsheets can format numbers for currency or dates, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There’s barely any business in the modern world that doesn’t use Excel to some extent. The gold standard when it comes to storing and organizing data sets, companies from various industries use its ...

Debate has raged about the efficacy of Excel since Microsoft launched it in 1985. The Wall Street Journal ignited a firestorm of discussion with its November 29 article that questioned whether Excel ...

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Excel spreadsheets are one of the most useful tools to create documents with calculations and data and organize the accounting or VAT tax, among other tasks. Luckily, while working on Excel you can ...