Introduction: "Comments" or "Annotations" add a lot of value to data. They are frequently added by programmers to their codes to make them more understandable. Adding appropriate comments to a program or document is a good practice because a programmer or writer might forget, over time, the purpose of the code. For someone who was not part of the project it could be really … [Read more...]
Five Ways to Perform A Forensic Audit Using Excel
Introduction: One can, surprisingly enough, use excel for conducting a forensic audit. Before jumping to that discussion, lets start with an introduction of auditing procedures. There are two types of procedures that attempt to minimize fraud in financial transactions - one called Statutory Procedure and one utilizing Forensic Techniques. The first technique is primarily … [Read more...]
Introducing the TEXTJOIN function in EXCEL 2016
Introducing the TEXTJOIN function in EXCEL 2016 We are familiar with CONCATENATE function that we have been using for a long time to perform concatenation or to join different strings or numbers. This function has been preceded by introduction of a new function in Excel 2016 –the TEXTJOIN function (and also CONCAT function). The CONCATENATE function suffers from following … [Read more...]
How to use the SUMPRODUCT function in Excel
Introduction to SUMPRODUCT: In today’s post we will review some of the use of SUMPRODUCT function. The SUMPRODUCT function is amongst one of the favorites functions for Data Analysis – Particularly when you want to answer exploratory question like “how many”, “how frequent”, finding sum and averages against criteria’s. So we will start with a brief introduction of the … [Read more...]
Creating Project Line (Gantt Chart) in MS Excel
Introduction: Though there many “dedicated” application available for project managers to manage their projects, like MS Project or Primavera Project Planner, we can also create a project time line in MS Excel! In today’s tutorial, we will be exploring the ways to create a project time line in excel, along with the terminology and some theoretical background of project … [Read more...]