Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It comes with basic spreadsheet functionality and ...

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 ...

If you create spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel that you need to distribute to colleagues or coworkers who don't use the software, you'll need a way to transform your XLS or XLSX files into standalone ...

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For many businesses, tracking financial performance is essential, but not every company opts for expensive accounting software to do so. Instead, a significant number rely on Microsoft Excel to ...

Both the Currency and Accounting number formats in Excel are used to display monetary values, including the symbol for the chosen currency. However, in this article, I'll explain their subtle ...

Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 integrates an accounting application with Office applications like Outlook and Excel. It performs this integration capably, though the accounting arm ...

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Debate has raged about the efficacy of Excel since Microsoft launched it in 1985. The Wall Street Journal ignited a firestorm of discussion with its November 29 article that questioned whether Excel ...