Too many financial decisions are made without factoring in the time value of money. Whether providing financial planning advice related to a client’s retirement, advising a client about a business ...

Many Excel spreadsheets use the IFERROR function to handle errors, but this masks critical structural and data issues.

Highlight the lowest and highest value in an Excel row or column Your email has been sent Finding the lowest or highest value in an Excel row or column is simple using the MIN() and MAX() functions, ...

In Microsoft Excel, the well-known and widely used spreadsheet software, you can use letters to represent values. So, for instance, instead of subtracting 5 from 10, you can subtract x from y. This ...

When teaching financial accounting, faculty often discuss bonds payable and how to calculate the issue price of a bond. The next time you cover this topic, consider teaching students how to calculate ...

How to use wildcards with the XLOOKUP() function in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible. Lookup functions are great ...

DATEVALUE is a Date and Time function, and its purpose is to convert a date in the form of text to a serial number. In this post, we will show you how to use the DATEVALUE function in Microsoft Excel.

The simplest use of the FORMULATEXT function is straightforward formula auditing.

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. The present value (PV) of a bond is the sum of ...

The TIMEVALUE function in Microsoft Excel is a Date and Time function, and its purpose is to convert a time in the form of text to a serial number. It is used to convert text representations of times ...