By David H. Ringstrom, CPA Originally published in Accounting Network News Your spreadsheets might contain more personal or confidential information than you realize. Such data often reside in the nooks and crannies of your spreadsheet, such as in the Properties window, or in overlooked hidden rows,...

You've collected reams of financial data from your business onto Microsoft Office Excel 2003 worksheets. Now you need to draw meaningful conclusions about your company's current status and future health from those numbers. PivotTable reports, a feature of Excel, can help you analyze your data from multiple...

Capital budgeting is a tool that financial analysts can use to support business decision-making by using thorough, contextual information about potential capital investments. Capital budgeting can be complex, so it can be easy to get lost in the details of the financial calculations and lose track of...

Accurate forecasting is vital to day-to-day business operations, as well as to long-term planning. Inaccurate forecasting can quickly lead to trouble. And it's important to use the right forecasting technique depending on the forecast's intended purpose. For example, you would develop a long-term sales...