10+ ways to SUM Top N values in Excel data range – Ready to...

We all love to add things up. Its always good if things add up to the way we want. And no doubt from Excel newbie to pro everyone uses SUM formula. We have recently...

Running Totals and Running Balance with Excel Pivot Tables – How To

Last time when I discussed how to do running totals and running balance using Excel many different ways were discussed but one was left for today which is doing running totals and running balance...

Budget Vs Actual – Analyzing Profit and Loss Statements in Excel using Pivot tables

This tutorial is effectively a continuation of last tutorial on profit and loss statements using pivot tables in which we learnt how to make a report in Excel using pivot tables feature to make...

Making Sales Dashboard using Excel Slicers – How To

So many reasons why not to hate Excel dashboards. They are beautiful, they are dynamic, they make everything super easy to understand. And not to mention it one cool way to grab attention at...

Excel Pivot Table tutorial for Absolute Beginners: Creating your First Pivot Report [2 of...

In Part 1 of this little jump start series on Pivot Tables for Absolute Beginners I explained what excel pivot tables are the science behind their working through example and explained how pivot table let...

Create Data Validation lists from Unsorted data with duplicates in Excel [How To]

Today I finally decided to make an Excel dashboard on debtors aging analysis. The main reasons to do this dashboard were that: I thought now enough knowledge has been delivered to my cult followers that...

Prepare (Normalize) the data for Pivot Tables using Power Query

Pivot tables is a love of life for many Excel heads for its ability to move elements of reports easily is pure awesomeness. Pivot table has greatly improved since improv. But it still has limitations. And one...

Excel Pivot Tables – Grouping Dates by Week Within Months, Quarters or Years –...

Earlier we learned about grouping and ungrouping time related information very easily using excel pivot tables. It saves huge amount of time in preparing summary pivot table reports with different dimensions of time. However, we...

Dynamic Common Size and DuPont Analysis Financial Statements in Excel

What if you have to make few analysis together in Excel like common-size analysis, ratio analysis and duPont analysis, well this is what I did this weekend. And the best part is that it...

Restructuring (Normalizing) data for Pivot tables using Pivot tables – How To

Last time I discussed the use of Power Query to restructure data for pivot table purposes if it is not arranged in columnar format. Today we will be learning how to normalize the data for...