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 ...

Creating a monthly budgeting and forecasting model in Excel is a crucial skill for effective financial planning and management. This step-by-step guide by Kenji will walk you through the process of ...

There are lots of ways to budget, but if you pick a spreadsheet, where do you even start? Staring at a blank budget spreadsheet can be daunting. You don’t have to go it alone though. A spreadsheet ...

It’s January and you’ve gone and done it: You’ve resolved to keep better track of your personal finances. But deep down, you’re not sure where to start. Sure, you can buy accounting software, sign up ...

Accounting for a small business using Microsoft's Excel often requires the use of figures from one year as part of the accounting necessary for the next year's figures. Rather than keep a continuous ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...