| business days excel formula: 101 Ready-to-Use Excel Formulas Michael Alexander, Richard Kusleika, 2014-07-14 Mr. Spreadsheet has done it again with 101 easy-to-apply Excel formulas 101 Ready-to-Use Excel Formulas is filled with the most commonly-used, real-world Excel formulas that can be repurposed and put into action, saving you time and increasing your productivity. Each segment of this book outlines a common business or analysis problem that needs to be solved and provides the actual Excel formulas to solve the problem—along with detailed explanation of how the formulas work. Written in a user-friendly style that relies on a tips and tricks approach, the book details how to perform everyday Excel tasks with confidence. 101 Ready-to-Use Excel Formulas is sure to become your well-thumbed reference to solve your workplace problems. The recipes in the book are structured to first present the problem, then provide the formula solution, and finally show how it works so that it can be customized to fit your needs. The companion website to the book allows readers to easily test the formulas and provides visual confirmation of the concepts presented. Teaches you how to implement the required Excel formula Explains and details how the formulas work Lets you reuse or customize the given formula to address your particular needs Helps you make the formulas a regular part of your new, more efficient workflow Specific real-world scenarios are used to demonstrate how to most effectively apply Excel and its powerful formulas to complete tasks faster and with greater accuracy than ever before. Now you can save time, automate, and be more efficient and productive with 101 Ready-to-Use Excel Formulas. |
| business days excel formula: Essential Excel Loan & Mortgage Formulas Tim Hill, 2018-06-20 The most common financial operations in Microsoft Excel are calculations for mortgages, student loans, leases, credit-card debt, car payments, medical expenses, annuities, and retirement funds. This no-nonsense guide shows you how to use worksheet functions, array formulas, data tables, and other Excel features to manage your business and personal finances. You'll also learn the auxiliary skills needed to create and maintain financial workbooks: rounding numbers, data and time arithmetic, summing and counting values, and more. You can download the sample workbooks to follow along with the author's examples. - Covers all versions of Excel. - Learn about basic financial concepts, including cash flows, timing issues, and the time value of money. - Determine how much to invest now to meet a future goal. - Calculate how money will accumulate in your retirement or savings accounts. - Figure out the payments needed to pay off a loan or to meet an investment target. - Derive the true interest rate of your investments or loans, including interest-free loans. - See how much time it will take to pay off a loan, meet an investment target, or retire. - Separate the interest and principal portions of your mortgage or loan payments for tax purposes. - Convert between the commonly used methods of quoting interest rates. - Create amortization schedules to see how your debts change over time. - Build summary tables to compare loans that have different interest rates, loan amounts, or payment terms. Contents Part I - Loans & Mortgages 1. Getting Started with Loans & Mortgages 2. Present Value (PV) 3. Future Value (FV) 4. Payments (PMT) 5. Interest Rates (RATE) 6. Periods (NPER) 7. Interest and Principal Components 8. Converting Interest Rates 9. Loan Amortization Schedules 10. Summarizing Loan Options Part II - Dates & Times 11. Getting Started with Dates & Times 12. Date & Time Basics 13. Date & Time Functions 14. Date Tricks 15. Time Tricks Part III - Sums & Counts 16. Getting Started with Sums & Counts 17. Counting Basics 18. Counting Tricks 19. Frequency Distributions 20. Summing Basics 21. Summing Tricks |
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| business days excel formula: Excel 2013 Formulas John Walkenbach, 2013-03-18 Maximize the power of Excel 2013 formulas with this must-have Excel reference John Walkenbach, known as Mr. Spreadsheet, is a master at deciphering complex technical topics and Excel formulas are no exception. This fully updated book delivers more than 800 pages of Excel 2013 tips, tricks, and techniques for creating formulas that calculate, developing custom worksheet functions with VBA, debugging formulas, and much more. Demonstrates how to use all the latest features in Excel 2013 Shows how to create financial formulas and tap into the power of array formulas Serves as a guide to using various lookup formulas, working with conditional formatting, and developing custom functions Shares proven solutions for handling typical (and not-so-typical) Excel formula challenges Includes links to the Mr. Spreadsheet website, which contains all the templates and worksheets used in the book, plus access to John Walkenbach's award-winning Power Utility Pak. From charts to PivotTables and everything in between, Excel 2013 Formulas is your formula for Excel success. |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2016 Formulas Michael Alexander, Richard Kusleika, 2016-01-21 Leverage the full power of Excel formulas Excel 2016 Formulas is fully updated to cover all of the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to maximize the power of Excel 2016 through the use of formulas. This comprehensive book explains how to create financial formulas, release the power of array formulas, develop custom worksheet functions with VBA, debug formulas, and much more. Whether you're a beginner, a power user, or somewhere in between this is your essential go-to for the latest on Excel formulas. When conducting simple math or building highly complicated spreadsheets that require formulas up to the task, leveraging the right formula can heighten the accuracy and efficiency of your work, and can improve the speed with which you compile and analyze data. Understanding which formulas to use and knowing how to create a formula when you need to are essential. Access tips, tricks, and techniques that have been fully updated to reflect the latest capabilities of Microsoft Excel Create and use formulas that have the power to transform your Excel experience Leverage supplemental material online, including sample files, templates, and worksheets from the book |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2010 Formulas John Walkenbach, 2010-05-24 Take your Excel formulas to the next level with this updated reference John Walkenbach's name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher complex technical topics. Known as Mr. Spreadsheet, Walkenbach provides you with clear explanations on all the methods you can use to maximize the power of Excel with formulas within the frameworks of all the new features of Excel 2010. You'll learn how to create financial formulas, maximize the power of array formulas, develop custom worksheet functions with VBA, debug formulas, and much more. This invaluable reference is fully updated for the new Microsoft Office release and provides comprehensive formulas coverage, delivering more than 800 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques you won't find anywhere else. Demonstrates how to use all the new features of Excel 2010 to maximize your formulas Shows how to develop custom worksheet functions with VBA, debug formulas, create financial formulas, and more Serves as an indispensable reference no matter your skill level Includes a valuable CD-ROM with sample files, templates and worksheets from the book, plus John Walkenbach's award-winning Power Utility Pak Prepare to excel with Excel when you have John Walkenbach and Excel 2010 Formulas by your side! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling Wayne Winston, 2016-11-29 This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel’s newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. This edition adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a chapter of basic spreadsheet models to make sure you’re fully up to speed. Solve real business problems with Excel–and build your competitive advantage Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics Summarize data by using PivotTables and Descriptive Statistics Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing Master advanced functions such as OFFSET and INDIRECT Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions Leverage the new charts in Excel 2016 (including box and whisker and waterfall charts) Make charts more effective by using Power View Tame complex optimizations by using Excel Solver Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models Work with the AGGREGATE function and table slicers Create PivotTables from data in different worksheets or workbooks Learn about basic probability and Bayes’ Theorem Automate repetitive tasks by using macros |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2013: The Missing Manual Matthew MacDonald, 2013-04-18 The world's most popular spreadsheet program is now more powerful than ever, but it's also more complex. That's where this Missing Manual comes in. With crystal-clear explanations and hands-on examples, Excel 2013: The Missing Manual shows you how to master Excel so you can easily track, analyze, and chart your data. You'll be using new features like PowerPivot and Flash Fill in no time. The important stuff you need to know: Go from novice to ace. Learn how to analyze your data, from writing your first formula to charting your results. Illustrate trends. Discover the clearest way to present your data using Excel's new Quick Analysis feature. Broaden your analysis. Use pivot tables, slicers, and timelines to examine your data from different perspectives. Import data. Pull data from a variety of sources, including website data feeds and corporate databases. Work from the Web. Launch and manage your workbooks on the road, using the new Excel Web App. Share your worksheets. Store Excel files on SkyDrive and collaborate with colleagues on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Master the new data model. Use PowerPivot to work with millions of rows of data. Make calculations. Review financial data, use math and scientific formulas, and perform statistical analyses. |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel 2019 Formulas and Functions Paul McFedries, 2019-02-19 Expert Paul McFedries helps you master key Excel 2019 and Office 365 tools for building more powerful spreadsheets. Use Excel 2019 and Office 365 core features to build spreadsheets that solve business problems and deliver reliable answers. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Paul McFedries helps you make the most of formulas and functions, including the latest improvements to arrays, formula error handling, and statistics. McFedries’ step-by-step projects walk you through handling key tasks, from building timesheets to projecting cash flow and aging receivables. His practical examples and clear instructions demystify intermediate- to advanced-level formula construction, and help you leverage Excel’s most useful functions in your everyday work. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! By reading this book, you will: • Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to your models • Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions • Radically simplify complex calculations with Office 365’s new dynamic arrays • Use conditional formatting to reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities • Calculate loan payments, interest costs, terms, and amortization schedules • Project the future value of investments, and plan to achieve investment goals • Master essential discounting and cash-flow analysis tools, including net present value and internal rate of return • Sort, filter, and analyze tabular data, from customers to inventory • Easily analyze huge data sets with PivotTable calculations About This Book • For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time • For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2007 Formulas John Walkenbach, 2008-12-31 This book is a single reference that’s indispensable for Excel beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users everywhere Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques readers won’t find anywhere else John Walkenbach, aka Mr. Spreadsheet, is one of the world’s leading authorities on Excel Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and upgraded collaboration features Includes a valuable CD-ROM with templates and worksheets from the book Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling Wayne Winston, 2019-03-28 Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019 and Office 365 and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. New coverage ranges from Power Query/Get & Transform to Office 365 Geography and Stock data types. Practice with more than 800 problems, many based on actual challenges faced by working analysts. Solve real business problems with Excel—and build your competitive advantage: Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics Use PowerQuery or Get & Transform to connect, combine, and refine data sources Leverage Office 365’s new Geography and Stock data types and six new functions Illuminate insights from geographic and temporal data with 3D Maps Summarize data with pivot tables, descriptive statistics, histograms, and Pareto charts Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions Master all of Excel’s great charts Quickly create forecasts from historical time-based data Use Solver to optimize product mix, logistics, work schedules, and investments—and even rate sports teams Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models Learn about basic probability and Bayes’ Theorem Use the Data Model and Power Pivot to effectively build and use relational data sources inside an Excel workbook Automate repetitive analytics tasks by using macros |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365) Wayne Winston, 2021-12-17 Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel and transform data into bottom-line results. Award-winning educator Wayne Winston's hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use today's Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. More extensively updated than any previous edition, new coverage ranges from one-click data analysis to STOCKHISTORY, dynamic arrays to Power Query, and includes six new chapters. Practice with over 900 problems, many based on real challenges faced by working analysts. Solve real problems with Microsoft Excel—and build your competitive advantage Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics Use recent Power Query enhancements to connect, combine, and transform data sources more effectively Use the LAMBDA and LAMBDA helper functions to create Custom Functions without VBA Use New Data Types to import data including stock prices, weather, information on geographic areas, universities, movies, and music Build more sophisticated and compelling charts Use the new XLOOKUP function to revolutionize your lookup formulas Master new Dynamic Array formulas that allow you to sort and filter data with formulas and find all UNIQUE entries Illuminate insights from geographic and temporal data with 3D Maps Improve decision-making with probability, Bayes' theorem, and Monte Carlo simulation and scenarios Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing for predictive analytics Use Data Model and Power Pivot to effectively build and use relational data sources inside an Excel workbook |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365) Paul McFedries, 2022-03-25 Use Excel 365 and Excel 2021 core features to build spreadsheets that solve business problems and deliver reliable answers. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Paul McFedries helps you make the most of formulas and functions, including recent improvements ranging from dynamic arrays to XLOOKUP and LET. McFedries' step-by-step projects walk you through handling key tasks, from building timesheets to projecting cash flow and aging receivables. His practical examples and clear instructions demystify intermediate-to-advanced-level formula construction, and help you leverage Excel's most useful functions in your everyday work. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! By reading this book, you will: Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to your models Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions Use modern lookups to make your formulas more powerful and flexible Simplify complex calculations with dynamic arrays in Excel 365 and Excel 2021 Use conditional formatting to reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities Calculate loan payments, interest costs, terms, and amortization schedules Project the future value of investments, and plan to achieve investment goals Master essential discounting and cash-flow analysis tools, including NPV and IRR Sort, filter, and analyze any tabular data, from customers to inventory Easily analyze huge datasets with PivotTable calculations Perform sophisticated what-if analyses, scenario planning, and forecasting Optimize profit, cost, or operational efficiency with Solver About This Book For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2016 Formulas and Functions Paul McFedries, 2015-09-25 Book + Content Update Program Master core Excel 2016 tools for building powerful, reliable spreadsheets with Excel 2016 Formulas and Functions. Excel expert Paul McFedries shows how to use Excel 2016’s core features to solve problems and get the answers you need. Using real-world examples, McFedries helps you get the absolute most out of features and improvements ranging from AutoFill to Excel’s newest functions. Along the way, you discover the fastest, best ways to handle essential day-to-day tasks ranging from generating account numbers to projecting the impact of inflation. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions; insider insights; even complete step-by-step projects for building timesheets, projecting cash flow, aging receivables, analyzing defects, and more. • Quickly create powerful spreadsheets with range names and array formulas • Use conditional formatting to instantly reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities • Analyze your data with standard tables and PivotTables • Use complex criteria to filter data in lists • Understand correlations between data • Perform sophisticated what-if analyses • Use regression to track trends and make forecasts • Build loan, investment, and discount formulas • Validate data, troubleshoot problems, and build more accurate, trustworthy spreadsheets In addition, this book is part of Que’s exciting Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel 2016, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. The updates will be delivered to you via a FREE Web Edition of this book, which can be accessed with any Internet connection. To learn more, visit www.quepublishing.com/CUP. About MrExcel Library: Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will • Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year or more • Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems • Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have • Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel 2013 Data Analysis and Business Modeling Wayne Winston, 2014-01-15 Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2013, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide shows you how to use the latest Excel tools to integrate data from multiple tables—and how to effectively build a relational data source inside an Excel workbook. Solve real business problems with Excel—and sharpen your edge Summarize data with PivotTables and Descriptive Statistics Explore new trends in predictive and prescriptive analytics Use Excel Trend Curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing Master advanced Excel functions such as OFFSET and INDIRECT Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions Make your charts more effective with the Power View tool Tame complex optimization problems with Excel Solver Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models Apply important modeling tools such as the Inquire add-in |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2003 Formulas John Walkenbach, 2011-06-24 Everything you need to know about * Mastering operators, error values, naming techniques, and absolute versus relative references * Debugging formulas and using the auditing tools * Importing and exporting XML files and mapping the data to specific cells * Using Excel 2003's rights management feature * Working magic with array formulas * Developing custom formulas to produce the results you need Here's the formula for Excel excellence Formulas are the lifeblood of spreadsheets, and no one can bring a spreadsheet to life like John Walkenbach. In this detailed reference guide, he delves deeply into understanding, creating, and applying formulas in everything from basic workbooks to charts, pivot tables, and more advanced Excel applications. He examines financial formulas, explores the many options made possible with array formulas, teaches you to develop custom worksheet functions with VBA, and much more. Once again, Mr. Spreadsheet will astound you with the breadth and depth of Excel's capacity. CD-ROM Includes * Trial version of the author's award-winning Power Utility Pak 5 * More than 90 sample workbooks illustrating key formula concepts |
| business days excel formula: Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies Danielle Stein Fairhurst, 2022-01-19 Turn your financial data into insightful decisions with this straightforward guide to financial modeling with Excel Interested in learning how to build practical financial models and forecasts but concerned that you don’t have the math skills or technical know-how? We’ve got you covered! Financial decision-making has never been easier than with Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies. Whether you work at a mom-and-pop retail store or a multinational corporation, you can learn how to build budgets, project your profits into the future, model capital depreciation, value your assets, and more. You’ll learn by doing as this book walks you through practical, hands-on exercises to help you build powerful models using just a regular version of Excel, which you’ve probably already got on your PC. You’ll also: Master the tools and strategies that help you draw insights from numbers and data you’ve already got Build a successful financial model from scratch, or work with and modify an existing one to your liking Create new and unexpected business strategies with the ideas and conclusions you generate with scenario analysis Don’t go buying specialized software or hiring that expensive consultant when you don’t need either one. If you’ve got this book and a working version of Microsoft Excel, you’ve got all the tools you need to build sophisticated and useful financial models in no time! |
| business days excel formula: Using Excel for Business Analysis Danielle Stein Fairhurst, 2015-03-16 Utilise Excel 2013 capabilities to build effective financial models Using Excel for Business Analysis, Revised Edition provides practical guidance for anyone looking to build financial models. Whether for business proposals, opportunity evaluation, financial reports, or any other business finance application, this book shows you how to design, create, and test your model, then present your results effectively using Excel 2013. The book opens with a general guide to financial modelling, with each subsequent chapter building skill upon skill until you have a real, working model of your own. Financial tools, features, and functions are covered in detail from a practical perspective, and put in context with application to real-world examples. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of Excel modelling, including step-by-step instructions that walk you through each feature, and the companion website provides live model worksheets that give you the real hands-on practice you need to start doing your job faster, more efficiently, and with fewer errors. Financial modelling is an invaluable business tool, and Excel 2013 is capable of supporting the most common and useful models most businesses need. This book shows you how to dig deeper into Excel's functionality to craft effective financial models and provide important information that informs good decision-making. Learn financial modelling techniques and best practice Master the formulas and functions that bring your model to life Apply stress testing and sensitivity analysis with advanced conditionals Present your results effectively, whether graphically, orally, or written A deceptively powerful application, Excel supports many hundreds of tools, features, and functions; Using Excel for Business Analysis eliminates the irrelevant to focus on those that are most useful to business finance users, with detailed guidance toward utilisation and best practice. |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2010 Bible John Walkenbach, 2010-05-10 A comprehensive reference to the newest version of the world’s most popular spreadsheet application: Excel 2010 John Walkenbach's name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher complex technical topics. Known as Mr. Spreadsheet, Walkenbach shows you how to maximize the power of all the new features of Excel 2010. An authoritative reference, this perennial bestseller proves itself indispensable no matter your level of skill, from Excel beginners and intermediate users to power users and potential power users everywhere. Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques you won’t find anywhere else. Excel guru and bestselling author John Walkenbach (Mr. Spreadsheet) guides you through every aspect of Excel Delivers essential coverage of all the newest features of Excel 2010 Presents material in a clear, concise, logical format that is ideal for all levels of Excel experience Includes a CD that contains all the templates and worksheets used in the book plus John Walkenbach's award-winning Power Utility Pak Excel 2010 Bible serves as an excellent resource on all things Excel! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. |
| business days excel formula: Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2003 Paul McFedries, 2004-06-11 The world of mathematical formulas and jargon in Microsoft Excel is complex and can be intimidating for even advanced computer users. Perhaps like you, a majority of users find it difficult to get the most they can out of this very valuable program. Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2003 strives to break down the complexities by focusing on the four primary technologies to master: ranges, formulas, data analysis tools and lists. Chapters such as “Getting the Most Out of Ranges,” “Building Your Own Functions Using VBA,” and “Solving Complex Problems with Solver” will teach you practical skills and solutions that you can put to work immediately. Frustration will become a thing of the past as you begin to master the complex world of Excel! |
| business days excel formula: Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling Danielle Stein Fairhurst, 2019-03-25 A hands-on guide to using Excel in the business context First published in 2012, Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling contains step-by-step instructions of how to solve common business problems using financial models, including downloadable Excel templates, a list of shortcuts and tons of practical tips and techniques you can apply straight away. Whilst there are many hundreds of tools, features and functions in Excel, this book focuses on the topics most relevant to finance professionals. It covers these features in detail from a practical perspective, but also puts them in context by applying them to practical examples in the real world. Learn to create financial models to help make business decisions whilst applying modelling best practice methodology, tools and techniques. • Provides the perfect mix of practice and theory • Helps you become a DIY Excel modelling specialist • Includes updates for Excel 2019/365 and Excel for Mac • May be used as an accompaniment to the author’s online and face-to-face training courses Many people are often overwhelmed by the hundreds of tools in Excel, and this book gives clarity to the ones you need to know in order to perform your job more efficiently. This book also demystifies the technical, design, logic and financial skills you need for business and financial modelling. |
| business days excel formula: Pay Off Your Mortgage Early With Excel! Create an Optimal Payoff Plan for Your Income Tim Hill, 2020-03-12 The immense power of compound interest is such that adding a small amount of extra principal to each of your mortgage payments will result in thousands (or tens of thousands) in interest savings over the life of your loan. Using only high-school mathematics, Tim Hill provides clear and readable lessons that you can use to understand and pay down your mortgage by using Microsoft Excel (or any spreadsheet software). This entirely practical guide teaches you how to use worksheet functions, array formulas, data tables, and other spreadsheet features to manage your business and personal finances. You'll also learn the auxiliary skills needed to create and maintain financial spreadsheets: rounding numbers, data and time arithmetic, summing and counting values, and more. Plenty of examples show you how to use these tools for any type of debt or savings: mortgages, student loans, leases, credit-card debt, car payments, medical expenses, annuities, and retirement funds. You can download the sample workbooks to follow along with the author's examples and calculations. - Covers all versions of Excel. - Learn about basic financial concepts, including cash flows, timing issues, and the time value of money. - Compute the payments needed to pay off a loan or to meet an investment target. - Separate the interest and principal portions of your mortgage or loan payments for tax purposes. - Convert between the commonly used methods of quoting interest rates. - Create amortization schedules to see how your debts change over time. - Build summary tables to compare loans that have different interest rates, loan amounts, or payment terms. - Derive the true interest rate of your investments or loans, including interest-free loans. - See how much time it will take to pay off a loan, meet an investment target, or retire. - Determine how much to invest now to meet a future goal. - Calculate how money will accumulate in your retirement or savings accounts. Contents Part I - Loans & Mortgages 1. Getting Started with Loans & Mortgages 2. Present Value (PV) 3. Future Value (FV) 4. Payments (PMT) 5. Interest Rates (RATE) 6. Periods (NPER) 7. Interest and Principal Components 8. Converting Interest Rates 9. Loan Amortization Schedules 10. Summarizing Loan Options Part II - Dates & Times 11. Getting Started with Dates & Times 12. Date & Time Basics 13. Date & Time Functions 14. Date Tricks 15. Time Tricks Part III - Sums & Counts 16. Getting Started with Sums & Counts 17. Counting Basics 18. Counting Tricks 19. Frequency Distributions 20. Summing Basics 21. Summing Tricks |
| business days excel formula: Office 2010 Bible John Walkenbach, Herb Tyson, Michael R. Groh, Faithe Wempen, Lisa A. Bucki, 2010-08-31 The best of the best from the bestselling authors of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Bibles! Take your pick of applications from the Office 2010 suite and your choice of leading experts to show you how to use them. This Office 2010 Bible features the best-of-the-best content from the Excel 2010 Bible, by Mr. Spreadsheet John Walkenbach; the Word 2010 Bible by Microsoft MVP Herb Tyson; the PowerPoint 2010 Bible, by PowerPoint expert Faithe Wempen; and coverage of Access 2010 from Microsoft MVP Michael Alexander. If you want to quickly and effectively begin using Office 2010, start in the experts' corner with this must-have book. Gives you the best-of-the-best content on Office 2010 from the leading experts, authors, and contributors to our Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access Bibles Includes content from John Walkenbach, aka Mr. Spreadsheet; Word expert and Microsoft MVP Herb Tyson; PowerPoint expert Faithe Wempen; and Excel and Access expert and Microsoft MVP Michael Alexander Takes you beyond creating simple text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to help you use multiple Office applications at once to conquer critical business tasks Hones in with expert coverage of the topics within each application that you need to know most Covers even more from Outlook and other key Office topics Get the best of four books in one with this power-packed reference! |
| business days excel formula: MrExcel XL Bill Jelen, Szilvia Juhasz, 2015-09 The 40 essential tips that all Excel users need to know. Crowdsourced by more than 300 contributors who collaborated on choosing the 40 best Excel tips, MrExcel XL provides users with a concise book that can be absorbed in under an hour. Includes a bonus 30 tips, keyboard shortcuts, Excel jokes, Excel cocktails. Anyone who uses Excel will be able to turn to any page and pick up tips that will save them hours of work. |
| business days excel formula: Mastering Microsoft Office 2003 for Business Professionals Gini Courter, Annette Marquis, 2006-07-14 Get Down to Business—Maximize Your Efficiency with Office 2003 Written for business-minded and experienced Office users, this task-oriented guide goes directly to the bottom line, revealing optimal ways to perform critical, challenging tasks. After fifteen years of teaching people how to be more productive with Office, Courter and Marquis know users' FAQs and understand the way you use Office—as an integrated suite rather than as a collection of separate applications. In Mastering Microsoft Office 2003 for Business Professionals they skip the basics and focus instead on precious time-saving techniques that help you streamline your day-to-day activities. Inside, you'll learn how to: Manage schedules, tasks, contacts (Outlook) Build and deliver convincing, animated presentations (PowerPoint) Create documents collaboratively (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Streamline mailings and messaging (Word, Outlook, Access, Excel) Produce complex publications such as manuals, proposals, and contracts (Word, Binder, FrontPage) Publish documents on the Web (FrontPage, Excel) Organize and secure documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) Build robust, foolproof workbooks (Excel) Design and develop data sources (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) Create templates for repetitive tasks (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage) Construct user input forms (Outlook, FrontPage, Word) Dissect data, and then present it in compelling ways (Excel, Access) Tweak Office to fit the way you work (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) Use macros to do more with Office (Word, Excel) |
| business days excel formula: Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies Ken Bluttman, Peter G. Aitken, 2010-04-15 Put the power of Excel formulas and functions to work for you! Excel is a complex program. Mastering the use of formulas and functions lets you use Excel to compute useful day-to-day information, such as calculating the true cost of credit card purchases or comparing 15-year and 30-year mortgage costs. This fun and friendly book demystifies Excel's built-in functions so you can put them to work. You'll find step-by-step instructions on 150 of Excel's most useful functions, how they work within formulas, and how to use them to make your life easier. See how to use 150 of Excel's most useful functions, with real-world examples showing how each function is used within a formula Learn to calculate the costs of leasing versus buying a car, compute classroom grades, create an amortization table, or evaluate investment performance Fully updated for Excel 2010, but the principles will work with earlier versions of Excel as well Includes essential coverage of an additional 85 functions In the ever-popular, non-threatening For Dummies style, Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes Excel's power accessible to you. |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel 2010 Data Analysis and Business Modeling Wayne Winston, 2011-01-07 Master the business modeling and analysis techniques that help you transform data into bottom-line results. For more than a decade, Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA students the most effective ways to use Excel to solve business problems and make better decisions. Now this award-winning educator shares the best of his expertise in this hands-on, scenario-focused guide—fully updated for Excel 2010! Use Excel to solve real business problems—and sharpen your edge! Model investment risks and returns Analyze your sales team’s effectiveness Create best, worst, and most-likely case scenarios Compare lease vs. buy, and calculate loan terms See how price, advertising, and seasonality affect sales Manage inventory with precision Quantify the value of customer loyalty Calculate your break-even number and ROI Maximize scheduling efficiency Express “home-field advantage” in real numbers Project company growth, predict election results, and more! Plus—introduce yourself to PowerPivot for Excel Your companion web content includes: Downloadable eBook Hundreds of scenario-based practice problems All the book’s sample files—plus customizable templates |
| business days excel formula: Microsoft Excel 365 Bible Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika, 2022-02-14 Your personal, hands-on guide to the latest and most useful features in Microsoft Excel 365 Excel 365 is Microsoft’s latest cloud-based version of its world-famous spreadsheet app. Powerful and user-friendly, it’s an ideal solution for businesses and people looking to make sense of—and draw intelligence from—their data. The Excel 365 Bible carries over the best content from the best-selling Excel 2019 Bible while reflecting how a new generation uses Excel in Excel 365. The authoring team with their decades of Excel and business intelligence experience and recognition from the Excel community as Excel MVPs delivers an accessible and authoritative roadmap to Excel 365. Interested in the basics? You’ll learn to create spreadsheets and workbooks and navigate the user interface. If you’re ready for more advanced topics you can skip right to the material on creating visualizations, crafting custom functions, and using Visual Basic for Applications to script automations. You’ll also get: Over 900 pages of powerful tips, tricks, and strategies to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel 365 Guidance on how to import, manage, and analyze large amounts of data Advice on how to craft predictions and What-If Analyses based on data you already have Perfect for anyone new to Excel, as well as experts and advanced users, the Excel 365 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for everything you need to know about the world’s most popular, easy-to-use spreadsheet software. |
| business days excel formula: Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus Paul McFedries, 2007-05-16 &>Paul McFedries, an Office insider, that will help you learn the Office applications inside and out. Designed to bridge the gap between your expectation and reality, you will go beyond the basics and learn newly discovered techniques, shortcuts, and best practices. Through real-world examples that showcase how the tips and tricks can be used in everyday business tasks, Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus will help you get the most out of Office 2007. Part I MICROSOFT WORD TRICKS Chapter 1 Text Tricks Chapter 2 Formatting Tricks Chapter 3 Document Tricks Chapter 4 Page Layout Tricks Part II MICROSOFT EXCEL TRICKS Chapter 5 Formula and Function Tricks Chapter 6 Workbook and Worksheet Tricks Chapter 7 Data Analysis Tricks Chapter 8 Chart Tricks III MICROSOFT POWERPOINT TRICKS Chapter 9 Slide and Presentation Tricks Chapter 10 Animation Tricks Chapter 11 Slide Show Tricks IV MICROSOFT OUTLOOK TRICKS Chapter 12 Email Tricks Chapter 13 Calendar and Contacts Tricks V MICROSOFT ACCESS TRICKS 14 Table and Query Tricks Chapter 15 Form and Report Tricks APPENDIXES Author Bio Paul McFedries is well-known as a teacher of Office, Windows, and programming, particularly VBA. He is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul has been writing programs for PCs for more than 25 years and has been developing VBA applications since Microsoft first added VBA to the Office suite in 1994. Now primarily a writer, Paul has written more than 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries (Que, 2007), Formulas and Functions with Excel 2007 (Que, 2007), VBA for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Que, 2007), and Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams, 2006). |
| business days excel formula: Office 2007 Bible John Walkenbach, Herb Tyson, Faithe Wempen, Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Groh, Peter G. Aitken, Michael R. Irwin, Gavin Powell, Lisa A. Bucki, 2007-05-22 Completely revised for Office 2007, this “best of the Bible” presents Office you with the most useful content from leading experts like John Walkenbach, Cary Prague, Faithe Wempen, and Herb Tyson. The book features valuable information to help you—no matter your level of expertise—get up to speed on the new features in Excel, Access, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. You’ll quickly get savvy with the most widely used business application suite worldwide. |
| business days excel formula: Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies Ken Bluttman, Peter G. Aitken, 2005-01-28 Evaluate your investments, calculate credit card costs, predict expenses and more. This book makes these and other fomulaes easy. |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2019 Bible Michael Alexander, Richard Kusleika, John Walkenbach, 2018-09-25 The complete guide to Excel 2019 Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, the Excel 2019 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for all your Excel 2019 needs. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more. Navigate this powerful tool for business, home management, technical work, and much more with the only resource you need, Excel 2019 Bible. Create functional spreadsheets that work Master formulas, formatting, pivot tables, and more Get acquainted with Excel 2019's new features and tools Whether you need a walkthrough tutorial or an easy-to-navigate desk reference, the Excel 2019 Bible has you covered with complete coverage and clear expert guidance. |
| business days excel formula: MS Excel Anurag Singal, 2017-05-25 MS Excel: Let's advance to the Next Level is an attempt to take you to the next orbit of competence in this fascinating world. It is a ready reckoner for any practitioner who seeks to further his/her understanding of the tools and utilities. The author offers to make life easier for a data analyst, thus, it will be of relevance to students, academicians, the ones pursuing corporate careers as well as entrepreneurs preparing business plans for their startups. The book explains a wide array of complex functions, ranging from V-LOOKUP to MATCH/INDEX and pivot tables in very practical, simple, and implementable manner. The segments on conditional formatting and printing tricks will help the reader present the output to stakeholders in a more efficient manner. Do try the features Excel has on offer for controlling data input as well as creating checks and balances to ensure cell/sheet/file-level security. |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2010: The Missing Manual Matthew MacDonald, 2010-06-18 Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program, has the muscle to analyze heaps of data. Beyond basic number-crunching, Excel 2010 has many impressive features that are hard to find, much less master -- especially from online help pages. This Missing Manual clearly explains how everything works with a unique and witty style to help you learn quickly. Navigate with ease. Master Excel's tabbed toolbar and its new backstage view Perform a variety of calculations. Write formulas for rounding numbers, calculating mortgage payments, and more Organize your data. Search, sort, and filter huge amounts of information Illustrate trends. Bring your data to life with charts and graphics -- including miniature charts called Sparklines Examine your data. Summarize information and find hidden patterns with pivot tables and slicers Share your spreadsheets. Use the Excel Web App to collaborate with colleagues online Rescue lost data. Restore old versions of data and find spreadsheets you forgot to save |
| business days excel formula: Analyzing Business Data with Excel Gerald Knight, 2006-01-03 As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility, and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a standard spreadsheet. Analyzing Business Data with Excel shows you how to solve real-world business problems by taking Excel's data analysis features to the max. Rather than focusing on individual Excel functions and features, the book keys directly on the needs of business users. Most of the chapters start with a business problem or question, and then show you how to create pointed spreadsheets that address common data analysis issues. Aimed primarily at experienced Excel users, the book doesn't spend much time on the basics. After introducing some necessary general tools, it quickly moves into more specific problem areas, such as the following: Statistics Pivot tables Workload forecasting Modeling Measuring quality Monitoring complex systems Queuing Optimizing Importing data If you feel as though you're getting shortchanged by your overall application of Excel, Analyzing Business Data with Excel is just the antidote. It addresses the growing Excel data analysis market head on. Accountants, managers, analysts, engineers, and supervisors-one and all-will learn how to turn Excel functionality into actual solutions for the business problems that confront them. |
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| business days excel formula: Guide to Microsoft Excel 2002 for Business and Management Bernard Liengme, 2002-04-11 The essential guide for managers and business students who wish to use Microsoft Excel to its full potential As the industry standard spreadsheet for the analysis and presentation of results, Microsoft Excel is indispensable in the business world. This text provides a practical and straightforward guide to fully utilising the functions of Microsoft Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles through to the more complicated areas such as modelling, the analysis of charts, reporting, and automatic importing of data from the web directly into an Excel workbook. Bernard Liengme has written this book specifically to meet the requirements of business students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel. The text is illustrated throughout with screen-shots, as well as a wide variety of examples and case studies based in real-world business contexts, introduced with a minimum of maths, and readily adaptable to workplace situations. The new edition has been brought fully up to date with the new Microsoft Office XP release of Excel 2002 but can be used alongside any previous version of Excel, with new Excel 2002 features clearly indicated throughout.* Content written specifically for the requirements of business students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with the new Microsoft Office XP release of Excel 2002* Features of Excel 2002 are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based in real-world business contexts, introduced with a minimum of maths, and readily adaptable to workplace situations* Can be used alongside any previous version of Excel, with new Excel 2002 features clearly indicated throughout |
| business days excel formula: Business Data Analysis Using Excel David Whigham, 2007-01-11 Taking a thematic approach to the use of Excel spreadsheets in introductory business data analysis, this text has been designed to explain the overall nature of what is to be achieved and also instruction in how it is to be done. The learning approach is highly interactive and enables students to develop an understanding of the power of Excel in allowing both analysis of business data sets and in the flexible preparation of graphs, charts and tables for inclusion in reports and essays. The text is supported by an online resource centre with self marking exercises that can be used by instructors for formative and summative assessment, and a series of PowerPoint files containing all of the illustrated worksheets and figures. |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2013 Bible John Walkenbach, 2013-02-05 Excel at Excel with the help of this bestselling spreadsheet guide John Walkenbach's name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher the complexities of Microsoft Excel. Known as Mr. Spreadsheet, Walkenbach shows you how to maximize the power of Excel 2013 while bringing you up to speed on the latest features. This perennial bestseller is fully updated to cover all the new features of Excel 2013, including how to navigate the user interface, take advantage of various file formats, master formulas, analyze data with PivotTables, and more. Whether you're an Excel beginner who is looking to get more savvy or an advanced user looking to become a power user, this latest edition provides you with comprehensive coverage as well as helpful tips, tricks, and techniques that you won't find anywhere else. Shares the invaluable insight of Excel guru and bestselling author Mr. Spreadsheet John Walkenbach as he guides you through every aspect of Excel 2013 Provides essential coverage of all the newest features of Excel 2013 Presents material in a clear, concise, logical format that is ideal for all levels of Excel experience Features a website that includes downloadable templates and worksheets from the book Chart your path to fantastic formulas and stellar spreadsheets with Excel 2013 Bible! |
| business days excel formula: Excel 2016 Bible John Walkenbach, 2015-10-26 The complete guide to Excel 2016, from Mr. Spreadsheet himself Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, the Excel 2016 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for all your Excel 2016 needs. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities by expert author and Excel Guru John Walkenbach to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more. Navigate this powerful tool for business, home management, technical work, and much more with the only resource you need, Excel 2016 Bible. Create functional spreadsheets that work Master formulas, formatting, pivot tables, and more Get acquainted with Excel 2016's new features and tools Customize downloadable templates and worksheets Whether you need a walkthrough tutorial or an easy-to-navigate desk reference, the Excel 2016 Bible has you covered with complete coverage and clear expert guidance. |
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BUSINESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
BUSINESS definition: 1. the activity of buying and selling goods and services: 2. a particular company that buys and….
VENTURE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
VENTURE definition: 1. a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty: 2. to risk going….
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ENTERPRISE definition: 1. an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that….
INCUMBENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
INCUMBENT definition: 1. officially having the named position: 2. to be necessary for someone: 3. the person who has or….
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AD HOC definition: 1. made or happening only for a particular purpose or need, not planned before it happens: 2. made….
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ENTREPRENEUR definition: 1. someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity….
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EQUITY definition: 1. the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders, or one of the….
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