As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

A trimmed mean is much like a standard mean, which you can derive in Excel using the AVERAGE function. However, instead of using all of the data points to create the mean, a trimmed mean will leave ...

The percentage difference is usually calculated when you want to know the difference in percentage between two numbers. Microsoft Office Excel is a great tool to help you get started. In this post, we ...

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Calculating returns from your stock portfolio can be a tricky matter, especially if some of your holdings pay dividends, or you make frequent deposits and withdrawals from your account. With Excel and ...

As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

Keeping data on the number of leap years in a list is important for companies, government offices, and event organizers. If you need to check for the number of leap years between two dates in Excel, ...

Reviewed by Charlene Rhinehart Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Businesses depreciate long-term assets for both tax and accounting purposes. For tax purposes, businesses can deduct the cost of the ...

Sparklines in Microsoft Excel are charts—tiny little charts that display inline with the data because they fit into a cell, usually adjacent to the data they’re evaluating. With a quick glance, not ...