How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel
Believe it or not, this income statement is quite sophisticated. It's not nearly as simple-minded as it looks.
In fact, this income statement illustrates a...
An Introduction to Excel Data Plumbing
Would you like to:
Create your new reports, analyses, forecasts, and other Excel work quickly?
Update your Excel work with one command, without using...
How to Structure Your Report Workbook
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...
What the Heck is an Excel Database?
You can raise your Excel productivity significantly and slash your Excel errors—if you keep your data in an Excel database.
Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and others...
Interactive Excel Reporting
Several years ago, a reader asked me to help him with an Excel-reporting challenge that might sound familiar.
His challenge, he said, was that he...
Five Ways to Make Your Excel Reports Incredibly Popular
Years ago, I was the young CFO of a small company that was purchased by a Fortune-200 company. Within days of the sale, I...
Five Ways to Improve Business Insight in Your Excel Reports
Is there a systematic way that you can help your readers to gain more insight from your Excel reports? There just might be.
The November,...
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...
Excel’s Advantages for Predictive Analytics
Predictive Analytics is one of 4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence, according to an article in Information Week.
“Predictive analytics,” the article said, “is a white-hot...
Excel Is Great for Business Intelligence!
With the right access to data, Excel can become an outstanding Business Intelligence (BI) system.
Business Intelligence (BI) is the systematic use of information about...