The default settings for the accounting number format, which is one of 10 formatting choices in Excel, are to include two decimal places in the number entered into the spreadsheet and to display ...

Excel will calculate the total of all the cells in that range. Format the cells to use accounting style. Click and drag on the spreadsheet to select all of the cells with monetary values.

Currency number format: Use this format in spreadsheets containing less formal monetary calculations, or if adaptable stylistics are more important than analytical legibility.

Excel is and will remain for at least within our lifetimes the primary frontline tool of analysis in the accounting industry. The question should no longer be, “how shall I eliminate spreadsheets from ...

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