The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number.

How to Use Microsoft Excel for Accounting. Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets.

Excel tables have many benefits that regular spreadsheets lack. The biggest is the option to use data from multiple tables to create queries and reports.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that you can use to record data, make calculations and create charts. In this article I’ll introduce you to the basics of working in Excel. We’ll look at ...

Q. I receive regular spreadsheets with all of our company’s accounts, departments, employees, and balances, and I have to subtotal the amounts by accounts, departments, etc. I have been manually doing ...