Before bookkeeping software, accountants used handwritten spreadsheets to track business expenses. Now you can use programs, such as Excel to design expense spreadsheets and do the math for you, but ...

If you are required to itemize your deductions on your tax return, you can keep track of your expenses with a simple Excel spreadsheet. This has several advantages: you can make as many backups as you ...

The best way to improve your finances is to arm yourself with knowledge and tools to understand your spending. Learning how to make a budget spreadsheet is a smart financial practice regardless of ...

Today’s topic may seem like an unnecessarily basic one, but I can tell you that nine out 10 shared spreadsheets I receive from team members are unusable for analysis because they can’t be sorted. I’m ...

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Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.