When you review your small business's balance sheet, it's important to compare accounts across multiple years to identify any trends. To make this process easier, you can convert each account's dollar ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

BYROW replaces thousands of table formulas with one spill formula, making spreadsheets leaner and much more robust.

When you dive into Excel, you quickly realize the power it holds for data analysis and prediction. Two of the most potent tools at your disposal are the TREND and FORECAST functions. These functions ...

Trend lines are a type of regression analysis, which is a way to study the relationships between variables. In the context of small business, trend lines are often used to show sales trends and can be ...

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