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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you’re running a business, you have to pay close attention to the numbers. Customer traffic, orders, profits and losses — all of these numbers are crucial to your business. That’s why it’s ...

Excel, one of the key tools in the Microsoft Office suite is a great small business software tool for analyzing business data. With it, you can take an in-depth look at your data and answer questions ...

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Recently, the CEO of a prominent enterprise software company wrote that auditors should consider including spreadsheets in their disclosure of “critical audit matters” (CAMs) as they begin to comply ...

Excel succeeded not because it had the most advanced formulas, but because anyone could open it, type in numbers and see ...