Formulas help business owners create useful spreadsheets that perform complex calculations automatically. Markup percentages, which show the difference between cost and selling price, are ideal ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2021. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Can you show me how ...

Econometrics is important, but a great deal of the work of economists is simply looking at data, graphing data, charting data, calculating ratios and percent changes, and performing other data ...

Although calculating a percentage in Microsoft Excel is easy, getting it to display properly requires a little extra effort, because Excel displays percentages in decimal format by default. For ...

Q. I was excited to see the article about ways to calculate depreciation in Excel, especially when I saw one of them was double-declining balance (DDB). As tax professionals, we’re always trying to ...

The discount rate refers to the interest rate used when calculating the net present value (NPV) of an investment. It represents the time value of money, which is the concept that a sum of money today ...

Have you ever stared at a sprawling Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the chaos? For many, Excel formulas feel like a secret language, powerful yet elusive. But here’s the truth: ...