Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It comes with basic spreadsheet functionality and ...

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IMGCAP(1)]Last week I wrote about my introduction to QuickBooks and how we took our entire staff to a training course for it. Today I am writing about training for the most basic software we use: ...

Both the Currency and Accounting number formats in Excel are used to display monetary values, including the symbol for the chosen currency. However, in this article, I'll explain their subtle ...

The Hill may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. No matter the industry, Excel isn’t a well liked program. The intimidating software confuses even the ...

Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software.

CPAs are often tasked with vetting or working with numbers in a spreadsheet. And while accountants are well-trained to identify and correct accounting errors, spreadsheets bring the danger of many ...