Move Your Accounting Data into Excel Of course, your business data probably exists in your accounting software or your other small business software, so before you begin you need to get it into Excel.

How to Use Microsoft Excel for Accounting. Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets.

Follow these steps to set up a general ledger accounting system in Excel. A small business can use Excel as a substitute for expensive accounting software.

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.

Accounting software AT Think Digital transformation in finance will be built on Excel By Don Mal March 21, 2018, 12:40 p.m. EDT 6 Min Read ...