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 ...

All of you have learned the formula to calculate the compound interest in your school. Compound and simple interests are among the mathematical applications used in real life for years. At certain ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...

Excel's AVERAGEIF and AVERAGEIF functions let you find the average of a set of data. However, where they differ from the more ...

Liquidity ratios are important financial metrics that can determine whether a company can pay off its short-term debts without having to raise more capital. One of these ratios is the current ratio, ...

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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 ...

To calculate the returns on your mutual fund investments made on different dates, using XIRR formula in excel makes the task easier. You may be investing through SIP or making lump sum investments on ...

Our Big Story in blportfolio dated March 3, 2024, explained how statistical measures can be used to navigate the stock market and make informed investment decisions. Following up on that, of course, ...