Show Key Stats Automatically in Periodic Excel Reports
Each issue of Business Week magazine used to include several figures titled "The Stat". These figures emphasized key data related to the article on...
Should You Raise Prices? Should You Lower Them? These Excel Charts Can Help You...
In the early 1980s I was the CFO of a company owned by a man whose first instinct was to cut prices.
When business was...
Should You Raise Prices? Should You Lower Them? Derivation of the Formula For Planning...
The article, Should You Raise Prices? Or Should You Lower Them? These Excel Charts Can Help You Answer Those Questions, introduces the Price-Change formula....
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...
Save Time with Excel Range Selections
One of the big differences between early-stage Excel users and gurus is that gurus can do simple things in Excel much more quickly than...
Sample Excel Dashboard Reports from Forbes and Business Week
This mock-up is based on a format that Business Week used about thirty years ago. However, their report used a different color scheme. As...
Read a Text File with VBA in Excel, and Write the Text to a...
"I need to write a text file into one row of my Excel spreadsheet, cell by cell, 20 characters at a time. It's urgent....
Quickly Find a Worksheet in an Excel Workbook With Many Sheets
I’m not opposed to using VBA. I think it’s great fun and it can be very useful. But in a business setting, if VBA...
Predict Business Bankruptcy Using Z Scores with Excel
"General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the two biggest U.S. automakers, have about a 46 percent chance of default within five years, according...
Overview of Excel’s Rounding Functions
Since Version 2013, Excel has offered 15 functions that round data in different ways.
The first table describes each function briefly. The second table summarizes...
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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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