Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...

Monitoring sales revenue allows you to track your business' profit, but equally important is understanding where those revenues are derived. If you sell multiply products, or categories of products, ...

An economic report that has been used frequently to justify austerity measures in the U.S. and Europe has one flagrant flaw: an Excel error.  The 2010 report by ...

When calculating a declining sales figure spanning multiple years, you need to calculate two percentages. The straight-line method calculates your overall decline, but this doesn't paint the entire ...

The UMass study found other potential flaws in the 2010 report including unconventional statistical weighting and selective data omission, but thus far Reinhart and ...

They're calling it the "Excel Error Heard Round the World": Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart's widely cited paper about the relationship between public debt and ...

A major Austrian opposition political party on Monday corrected the results of a closely contested leadership election after it announced the wrong winner over the weekend due to a “technical” error: ...