All of you have learned the formula to calculate the compound interest in your school. Compound and simple interests are among the mathematical applications used in real life for years. At certain ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

GCD stands for Greatest Common Divisor. It is also called HCF (Highest Common Factor). In simple words, it is the greatest number that can divide a particular set of numbers. For example, the Greatest ...

Finding the exact difference between two dates in Excel may not be the most used feature, but it can be a lot of fun. A classic example is working out someone’s age. It’s not as complicated as it ...

Microsoft Excel provides a straightforward way to calculate sales goals, thanks to its built-in formula functions. You can use Excel's features to calculate your sales goals by the hour and ...

When you edit the values on your Microsoft Excel worksheet, pressing the "F9" button refreshes the calculation manually. To avoid the tedious task of repetitively pressing this button and risking an ...

Have you ever stared at a spreadsheet, struggling to make sense of percentage calculations that just don’t seem to add up? Whether it’s a confusing formula, a misstep with zero values, or an ...

Q. I was excited to see the article about ways to calculate depreciation in Excel, especially when I saw one of them was double-declining balance (DDB). As tax professionals, we’re always trying to ...

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A TechRepublic member wrote for advice on calculating the years, months, and days elapsed between two dates. This tutorial explains the solution provided by TechRepublic contributor Jeff Davis. A ...

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The market price of a stock doesn't necessarily reflect its intrinsic value. Several economic theories use different approaches toward valuing companies, but one of the simplest involves calculations ...