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 ...

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 ...

Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software. Accounting often starts simple: a few transactions, a basic spreadsheet, and a clear ...

The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number. But the accounting format has a few differences that make ...

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 ...

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 ...

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