Find Leading Indicators Using Automated Cross Correlations in Excel, Part 1
It all seems so simple...
To improve your forecasts of sales or other measures, you simply need to find leading indicators...measures that are highly correlated...
How to Count the Occurrences of Items in a List
"I have a list of repair orders (RO). I want to know how many one line repair orders there are in the list. So...
Use this Excel ‘Cash Flow Balance Sheet’ to See Sources & Uses of Funds...
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...
Dashboard-Like Excel Charts of International Consumer Confidence
The following Excel figure displays its charts in a dashboard-like format. At least, it's in a format that dashboards should use!
When you use simple...
How to Create Normal Curves With Shaded Areas in Excel
Adding shaded areas to normal curves like this is a challenging task in Excel charting. But once you know how, it's not difficult to...
Manage Periodic Payments with an Excel Cash Calendar
Most companies must write checks periodically to companies that don't send invoices. Often, their accounting systems provide little help in keeping track of these...
How to Define General Ledger Account Groups in Excel
In Part 1 of this series, How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel, we explored the strategy for creating financial reports that use...
Use Benford’s Law & Charts in Excel to Improve Business Planning
Unless you're a public accountant, you probably haven't experimented with Benford's Law.
Auditors sometimes use this fascinating statistical insight to uncover fraudulent accounting data. But it might reveal...
How to Sort Data in Reports Automatically Using Excel Formulas
Many Excel reports include tables that show sorted results. Usually, these tables were sorted manually in Excel, using the Data, Sort command. However, reports...
The Two Functions You MUST Know to Return Values from Excel Tables
“Export to Excel is the 3rd most common button in BI apps…after OK and Cancel.”
—Rob Collie, one of the founding engineers behind PowerPivot at...
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How to Stack and Shelve Dynamic Arrays
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