How to Foot and Cross-Foot Excel Reports in a Floating-Point World
At first glance, the following report is an ordinary one. It merely sums an Excel Table by Product and Region, and then foots and...
How to Set Up an Automatic Error-Checking System in Excel Reports
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...
Three Ways to Reduce Errors in Your Excel SUM Formulas
If you aren't careful, simple edits to your reports and analyses can cause significant errors.
Years ago, for example, I heard about an expensive error...
Seven Ways to Avoid Errors In Excel Reports & Analyses
You can find many stories on the web about problems with spreadsheet errors. So I thought it would be useful to review some practical...
Five Best Practices in Your Excel Reporting Strategies
Most Excel reports, forecasts, and analyses I've seen in my career could serve as excellent examples of what NOT to do in Excel.
These reports...
Error Handling in Excel Spreadsheets
It’s virtually guaranteed. If you have a bunch of formulas like this…
M43: =C43/D43
…then the divisor, D43 in this instance, will have a value of...
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Consumer Sentiment Suggests a 2022 Recession
In recent months, business websites have speculated about recessions and stagflation in 2022.
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