Tuesday, December 10, 2024
In this final article of the SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT series, you'll learn more reasons to use advanced multi-criteria lists in marketing and finance.

Advanced SUMIFS Calculations with Criteria Lists

In Part 1 of this series, you learned how to use criteria lists for marketing data. In Part 2, we looked at financial data. And now, in Part...
Read a Text File with VBA in Excel, and Write the Text to a Spreadsheet

Read a Text File with VBA in Excel, and Write the Text to a...

0
"I need to write a text file into one row of my Excel spreadsheet, cell by cell, 20 characters at a time. It's urgent....
Here's how to add sources and uses of funds to your company's Balance Sheet in Excel to get a clearer picture of how the changes affect your cash flow.

Use this Excel ‘Cash Flow Balance Sheet’ to See Sources & Uses of Funds...

0
For most businesses, cash flow is more important than profits and losses. The reason is clear. A profitable company with negative cash flows may not...
Excel's STOCKHISTORY function can return decades of history about the prices of stocks for thousands of public companies from many countries. Here's an introduction to that function.

Introducing Excel’s STOCKHISTORY Function

The STOCKHISTORY function recently showed up in my non-beta version of Excel 365. Its appearance was a surprise because it wasn't announced as a What's...
This Excel figure shows three charts showing Covid-19's economic damage: Initial Claims, Business Loans, and Cass Freight Shipments.

Three Charts Showing Covid-19’s Economic Damage

The following Excel figure shows three indicators of the US economy.Chart 1 measures the number of new unemployment claims during the past week as...
Use this unique Excel dashboard to track the general rate of inflation, your personal rate, and the rate of the goods and services you buy.

Inflation Tracker Excel Dashboard with Consumer Prices

0
U.S. President John F. Kennedy once said of a growing economy, "A rising tide lifts all boats." However, a rising inflationary tide does not lift...
Pivot Tables aren't merely a way to interact with your data. You also can use them as a rich source of data for standard reports and analyses. And you don't need to limit formulas to GETPIVOTDATA; you also can use SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, and all other Excel functions with pivots. Here's how.

How to Set Up a Pivot Table as an Excel-Friendly Database

0
You can use a Pivot Table as a database in the same way that you can use Excel Tables and other Excel-Friendly Databases (EFDs). In...
As inflation rises, so do mortgage interest rates—causing house prices to fall. Here's how Excel's PV function can help you estimate what you new house price will be.

Here’s How Inflation Could Affect the Value of Your Home

0
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...
If you want all your Excel reports, analyses, forecasts, and other Excel work to be highly productive, this is the only strategy that will work for you.

An Introduction to Excel Data Plumbing

0
Would you like to: Create your new reports, analyses, forecasts, and other Excel work quickly? Update your Excel work with one command, without using...
Economic analysts use the Beveridge Curve to analyze the labor market through business cycles. You can use it to analyze how any two measures—internal or external—correspond over time.

Beveridge-Chart Trend Analysis with Excel

0
Here's a great way to discover new insights in your company's data: Always watch for new methods of looking at data...even if you care nothing...

Latest Articles

Excel Flowbook Revolution

Getting Radical with Excel

It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data. It's time, in fact,...
Growing too fast can be dangerous to your company's health. Use the Sustainable Growth Rate ratio to track your company's financial ability to grow.

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...

How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function

0
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
Advertisement