Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...

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 ...

"Return on investment" is a financial calculation used to gauge how well the money you invest earns you even more money. To calculate ROI you divide the earnings you made from an investment by the ...

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Excel's AVERAGEIF and AVERAGEIF functions let you find the average of a set of data. However, where they differ from the more ...

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When calculating the CAGR, you must first add the periods and the values for each period. To do this, you need a column focused on Years and another column focused on the Amount. If you are still ...

GPA doesn’t have a fixed scale and usually varies across universities. So, we will create a scale table in Excel to decide the parameters and then use it in an example. We will need three parameters ...

Use Excel to calculate daily returns and standard deviation to gauge stock volatility. Annualize volatility by multiplying daily standard deviation by the square root of 252. Remember, standard ...

How to calculate conditional running totals in an Excel revenue sheet Your email has been sent Adding a running total to a simple Microsoft Excel revenue sheet isn't difficult, but adding a ...

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A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...