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 ...

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Accounting for a small business using Microsoft's Excel often requires the use of figures from one year as part of the accounting necessary for the next year's figures. Rather than keep a continuous ...

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 ...

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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 ...

If you refer to the same value in an Excel sheet often, treat it as a constant. Anyone who uses Excel, even just a bit, knows how to name a cell or range and then use that name in formulas. It’s ...