Making Aging Analysis Reports Using Excel – How To

Aging analysis is helping accountants since ages and is one of those reports that are prepared mostly in Excel to track both receivables and payables. So today we are learning how to conduct aging...

Making Cash flow summary in Excel using Pivot tables with data on multiple worksheets

Cash flow summaries are scary because of piles of data. But it is a routine work and accountants have to go through it every accounting period (monthly, quarterly and/or annually). Few days back I was approached...

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...

Stock Ageing Analysis Reports using Excel – How To

Stock is one of the most important investment made by the entity. Optimum quantity and turnover period is essential for entity to be successful. Faster the conversion, better the prospects for entity as inventories...

Resume excel session with Save workspaces feature

In accounting world some work is repetitive and accountants have to open certain set of files almost on daily basis. Opening each file by reaching the location and double clicking might not be that...

One minute Excel Tutorial – Watch Window

Accountants and analysts around the world does one amazing job and that is they give the meaning to mammoth data by processing it using their skills and the same information is then used by...

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...

How to Highlight Blank Cells in Excel using Conditional Formatting [Quick Tip]

With huge data pinpointing blank cells is near to impossible. Sometimes back we learnt how to fill blank cells with zero using Go-To special feature in Excel. But what if we only want to...

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...

Top 10 Excel keyboard shortcuts for Accountants

Excel and accountants are two interconnected entities. Around the world excel is the most active computer application in the hands of accountants. Even if accountants have some other accounting software at their disposal they...