How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
Here’s How Inflation Could Affect the Value of Your Home
November 5, 2021
Inflation is rising in the U.S. And that made me wonder how a higher rate of inflation could affect the price of...
An Excel Chart of a Major U.S. Supply Chain Problem
October 23, 2021
A shortage of truckers now appears to be the greatest problem with the United States' supply chain.
In fact, President Biden said in...
A Lesson in Excel Analysis Learned from Rising US Inflation
Looking at the trends in the annual rate of change (ROC) of business and economic measures is an excellent way to reveal hidden information...
How to Split and Index Delimited Text with Excel Formulas
For the longest time I've wished that Microsoft would add a SPLIT function to Excel. The function would have a syntax like this...
=SPLIT(text, delimiter,...
Warren Buffett, Inflation, and Excel
On May 3, 2021, CNBC quoted Warren Buffett saying, “We are seeing very substantial inflation. We are raising prices. People are raising prices to...
Add Low-Overwhelm Context to Your Line Charts
The data you display in charts often takes on new meaning when you display it in the context of other data.
One way to add...
Calculate Mortgage Payments and Your ROA with an Excel CalcPlot Chart
An Excel CalcPlot Chart allows you to plot values in three dimensions, not merely two. Here are two examples.
Mortgage Paments
Mortgage interest rates are at...
Chart Recessions and Other Boolean Conditions in Excel
I doubt you’ve seen an Excel chart like this before. It shows multiple Boolean conditions that might affect the trend in the annual Rate...
Show Top and Bottom Results in a Chart-Table
The workbook that supports the following figure does a lot of work!
First, it uses Power Query to download the weekly unemployment claims and the...