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 ...

Q. How do I use the FILTER function in Excel, and how is this an improvement over the filter feature? A. The FILTER function was introduced five years ago as part of the Excel Dynamic Arrays rollout.

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 ...

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1987 and — despite popular competitors such as Google Sheets — is still used by millions of businesses throughout the world. Described as the “world’s most ...

Too many financial decisions are made without factoring in the time value of money. Whether providing financial planning advice related to a client’s retirement, advising a client about a business ...

Excel's GROUPBY function lets you group and aggregate data based on certain fields in your table of data. It also offers arguments that allow you to sort and filter your data, so you can tailor the ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Charlene Rhinehart Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Businesses depreciate long-term assets for both tax and accounting purposes. For tax purposes, businesses can deduct the cost of the ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with an Excel formula, wondering why a seemingly simple task feels so complicated? For years, functions like VLOOKUP, CONCAT, and OFFSET were the go-to tools for ...

Launch Excel Enter data or use existing data. Enter a formula into the cell Press Enter. See result. Launch Microsoft Excel. Enter your data or use an existing data Type into the cell where you want ...