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    You can ratchet down errors in your Excel reports by using an Error Summary Table that uses conditional formatting to alert you to errors.

    How to Set Up an Automatic Error-Checking System in Excel Reports

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    Decades ago, I worked as a cost accountant for a large company. But because our department received terrible reports, I wrote my own reports...using...
    To use Account Groups in Excel formulas, you first must define the groups. Here’s how to do it using either simple lists or Dynamic Arrays.

    How to Define General Ledger Account Groups in Excel

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    In Part 1 of this series, How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel, we explored the strategy for creating financial reports that use...
    All Excel reports perform at least four tasks. Good reports assign these tasks to four sections, with specific worksheets defining each section.

    How to Structure Your Report Workbook

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    In Weekly & Monthly Top-Ten Activity Reports I introduced two Excel dashboard reports created by Chris Helfrecht. In this post, I’ll describe a critical aspect of...
    Excel's Linked Picture feature (Camera tool) allows us to position a table in reports while ignoring the row and column settings in the report worksheet.

    Ideas about Using Excel’s Linked-Picture (Camera) Tool

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    Of all the Excel features that users don’t use very often, Excel's Linked Picture tool probably is the most powerful. This tool, known in...

    Add Low-Overwhelm Context to Your Line Charts

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    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...
    Summary tables in Excel reports have always been difficult to format so they don't LOOK like Excel tables. Here's one extreme method you might want to try.

    Add Some Style to Your Tables in Excel Reports

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    Excel tables in reports have always been difficult for me to format professionally. So every once in a while, I experiment with them. The two...
    When you're refinancing, this chart allows you to use the tip of your finger trade off your monthly payments and your total payments as you consider the term of your loan.

    Calculate Mortgage Payments and Your ROA with an Excel CalcPlot Chart

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    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...
    Each fat line in this chart indicates when a recession has occured for the specified country. You can use the same method to show other Boolean conditions.

    Chart Recessions and Other Boolean Conditions in Excel

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    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...
    This Excel table shows the top and bottom five results, with charts that show the most recent three month trends. And it updates automatically.

    Show Top and Bottom Results in a Chart-Table

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    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...
    When you include several charts in one report, your managers must THINK about each chart to decide if it shows good news or bad. Here's a fix for that.

    How to Remove a Speed Bump From Your Excel Charts

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    Because managers need QUICK insight, we should remove as many speed bumps as possible from our reports and analyses. The following figure with two Excel...
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    Using Excel's LET, SORTBY, and SEQUENCE functions, and dynamic arrays, you easily can list any number of top and bottom results from a Table.

    How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in Excel

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    In How to Use Excel’s LET Function, I showed several examples of a powerful function that Microsoft added to Excel 365 in the summer...
    The LET function is the most powerful function that Microsoft has released for Excel in years. Here's an introduction to its features.

    How to Use Excel’s LET Function

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    In the summer of 2020, Microsoft introduced the LET function for Excel 365—one of the most-significant new worksheet functions that Microsoft has introduced in...
    You can ratchet down errors in your Excel reports by using an Error Summary Table that uses conditional formatting to alert you to errors.

    How to Set Up an Automatic Error-Checking System in Excel Reports

    Accounting & Finance Charley Kyd -
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    Decades ago, I worked as a cost accountant for a large company. But because our department received terrible reports, I wrote my own reports...using...
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