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...

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...

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...

Making Aging Analysis Reports using Excel Pivot Tables – How To

Last time when I discussed preparing aging analysis in Excel, I used formula approach to do it. I used the combination of IF and TODAY functions and then used conditional formatting and sparklines to...

Making Profit and Loss Statements in Excel using Pivot tables

Being an accountant myself trust me I hate numbers and all that journals and "T" accounts. But its necessary to get to much meaningful financial statements like Statement of Financial Position (Balance sheet) and Profit...

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...

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...

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...

Excel Pivot Tables – Grouping Data by Date and Time

Where reporting is about numbers and analysis, the big part of it is also about time. And to best understand the situation you sometime have to want information specific to certain time period or grouped for...

Excel Pivot Table – Introduction: What, Why and How for Absolute Beginners [1 of...

Excel is surely a cavalry of features. And if we count the ways in which each feature can be useful just makes the whole think almost countless. However, for every feature one must know...