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On Valentine's Day, 2018, tens of thousands of major sites warned their readers that inflation is rising. But that might not be true. These analytical Excel charts suggest a different conclusion.

What Inflation? How Excel Charts Can Help You Avoid Fake Economic News

The business news on Valentine's Day, 2018, was dominated by talk of rising inflation. A search of Google News showed 67,100 results for the...
You can uncover new insights about your company by transforming your data before you chart it. This method of data transformation has revealed a long-term weakness in the U.S. economy.

This Excel Analytical Charting Strategy Reveals an Economic Warning

With normal charts, you find data and then you plot it. But with analytical charts, you transform your data in various ways to discover...

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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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