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...
Consumer Sentiment Suggests a 2022 Recession
In recent months, business websites have speculated about recessions and stagflation in 2022.
These predictions could affect your Excel work significantly in the next few...
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...
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...
The Excel-Friendly Database Strategy
Here's the key to slashing both your Excel errors and the time it takes you to create and update your Excel reports...
Get your plumbing...
How to Calculate Inflation in Three Different Ways
Today, in the third quarter of 2021, the business press is churning out an avalanche of articles about the return of inflation. Although some...
A Lesson in Excel Analysis Learned from Rising US Inflation
Looking at the trends in the annual rate of change (ROC) of business and economic measures is an excellent way to reveal hidden information...
How to Set Up Multiple Conditional Formats with Formulas
In How to Set Up a Square-Format U.S. Map in Excel, I showed how to create a square-format US map in Excel. I also...
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...
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...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
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
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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