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You can uncover hidden trends by charting the ratio of each month's performance to the same month one year earlier.

Introducing the Power of Year-Over-Year Performance Charts in Excel

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The purpose of management reports should be to help readers find and track patterns of performance…quickly and easily. That’s the attraction of charts, of course....

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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

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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...
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