Microsoft Excel

Excel for Microsoft 365 includes REGEX functions that can dramatically simplify many common accounting data-cleaning tasks.

Excel’s SCAN function provides a dynamic alternative that calculates running totals without copying formulas.

Excel is a great tool for integrating various financial statement analyses and
presenting the results in a way that emphasizes unusual trends.

By organizing source data into Excel tables and using structured formulas, you can refresh the analysis simply by pasting new statements into the model, without rewriting formulas or rebuilding schedules.

This article shows how to use dynamic arrays in Excel to build a revenue-testing schedule that auto-refreshes.

This column takes a look at Microsoft Excel’s
Dark Mode.

You can use Excel for creating interactive dashboards using PivotCharts combined with slicers to transform traditional, static reports into dynamic tools.

This month’s column shows how to produce more accurate forecasts using exponential
smoothing in Excel.

This article shows how to apply Benford’s Law to a dataset in Excel and how to interpret the results.

TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths of text and delimiters.

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing formulas.

This month’s column shows how you can use Microsoft Excel’s View features to more easily
navigate big datasets.

Checkboxes can help you create interactive to-do lists and other types of lists that track progress.

The TRIMRANGE function eliminates blank rows or columns from the boundaries of a specified range. This can be helpful when importing data from external sources, which can result in inconsistent formatting.