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90% of Excel spreadsheets contain errors: Here’s how to fix yours

A common source of errors in Excel is "the gap"—a situation where you add new data to the bottom of a list, but your formulas ...
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Excel formula basics: The role of the dollar sign

This video explains how the dollar sign is used in Excel formulas to control whether cell references stay fixed or change ...

Excel tip: Define cell names to cut errors and speed up your formulas

Using the example in our spreadsheet or a similar spreadsheet, highlight all the revenue numbers in the sheet and then in the ...

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...
Journal of Accountancy

How CPAs can use exponential smoothing in Excel for better forecasts

FORECAST.ETS applies an exponential triple smoothing (ETS) algorithm to create forecasts that can include trend and seasonal components. The syntax for the FORECAST.ETS is =FORECAST.ETS (target_date, ...