If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

GCD stands for Greatest Common Divisor. It is also called HCF (Highest Common Factor). In simple words, it is the greatest number that can divide a particular set of numbers. For example, the Greatest ...

If you have a recent pay stub, you can use Microsoft Excel to calculate your annual salary, as well as estimate how much a raise will affect your paychecks. Here are the steps to calculate yours. How ...

Mathematical models are a way to attempt to predict the probable outcome of a complex situation. From climate, stock market and physics models, you can use mathematical formulas to determine a range ...

A seasonal index is a way of measuring the seasonal variation -- that is, to measure the change that is due to seasonal changes in demand -- of a variable, typically sales. For example, a beachfront ...

When calculating the CAGR, you must first add the periods and the values for each period. To do this, you need a column focused on Years and another column focused on the Amount. If you are still ...

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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 ...

Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

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