Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

"Return on investment" is a financial calculation used to gauge how well the money you invest earns you even more money. To calculate ROI you divide the earnings you made from an investment by the ...

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Calculating Simple Interest is an excellent method to judge your savings in advance. However, calculating it for various interests and principal sums could be complex. This is where Excel comes to ...

Excel's AVERAGEIF and AVERAGEIF functions let you find the average of a set of data. However, where they differ from the more ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

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This guide was reviewed by a Business News Daily editor to ensure it provides comprehensive and accurate information to aid your buying decision. Creating a running total (or a cumulative sum, as it ...

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...

Last month, we used Goal Seek to determine the most reasonable mortgage payment within a specific budget. This month, we continue with the mortgage example using Scenario Manager. We’ll generate a ...

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