Identify budget overages and savings to forecast future costs more accurately. Use variance analysis to pinpoint operational areas needing financial adjustment. Regularly update budgets based on ...

Cost of goods sold (COGS) is more than an accounting term—it’s a critical metric that directly measures your business’s production costs and impacts your profitability. Understanding and calculating ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

A public hearing is scheduled before the Hays Area Board of Zoning Appeals on Monday, May 19, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. in Commission Chambers of Hays City Hall, 1507 Main, for a variance for a carport by ...

Comparing two Excel sheets is often necessary when you want to track changes, spot differences, or ensure data accuracy. Whether you’re working with financial reports, inventories, or large data sets, ...

In this post, we will show you how to calculate the expiry date in Microsoft Excel. Calculating expiry dates is a common requirement when working with Excel, especially for tracking inventory, ...

DAYS function in Excel is used to calculate the number of days between two dates. The result will be a positive or negative number depending on the order of dates. It is supported in all modern ...

The new U.S. tariffs rattling markets and promising globe-spanning trade barriers reflect a fixation of President Trump’s: the difference between how much stuff the U.S. buys from and sells to each of ...

CEDAR LAKE | Cedar Lake approved a special use variance that will allow the construction of a metal fabrication shop and some outdoor storage in the Cedar Lake Industrial Park. The Board of Zoning ...

The aroma of hay and manure hangs over Culpeper County, Virginia, where there’s a cow for every three humans. “We’ve got big farms, most still family-owned, and a lot of forests,” says Sarah Parmelee, ...

I recently enjoyed the book The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, by Maria Konnikova, a relatively new Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, who took on the challenge: to ...