Calculating payroll can be a time-consuming endeavor, so automating as much of the process as possible will save you hundreds of hours by the end of the year. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel comes with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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If your job (or even your personal life) requires you to do anything substantial with numbers, chances are you use a spreadsheet app to do it. As a Mac user, you’ve ...

Among the basic taxes that people need to pay, FICA is one of the most common. FICA stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Tax, and it consists of Social Security and Medicare tax. To determine ...

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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 ...