With the September 15 deadline for filing income tax return (ITR) nearing, the Income Tax Department has rolled out Excel utilities for filing updated returns in ITR-5, ITR-6, and ITR-7 for assessment ...

Calculating age based on a birthday is a common task, whether for work, school, or personal records. Excel makes this easy with built-in formulas that can quickly determine a person’s age from their ...

Reinvest dividends to buy more shares; consider tax when selling shares accumulated via DRIPs. Dividends received outside IRA are taxable, increasing your stock's tax basis over time. Track cost basis ...

Income statements detail revenue, expenses, and net income from top to bottom. Reading starts with revenue, deducts expenses, and ends with net income. Subtotal figures help identify missing account ...

In this post, we will show you how to calculate the expiry date in Microsoft Excel. Calculating expiry dates is a common requirement when working with Excel, especially for tracking inventory, ...

Have you ever been frustrated by Excel treating blank cells as zeros? It’s a small quirk, but one that can wreak havoc on your data analysis. Whether you’re building financial models, tracking ...

A year ago, I wrote a piece here about how people were really using gen AI. That article seemed to hit a note: It was popular, featured in viral posts, and the beautiful accompanying infographic has ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to calculate moving averages or rolling totals, only to end up frustrated by the constant need for manual adjustments? You’re not ...

Let’s talk about formatting shortcuts in Excel. Say you need to format several areas quickly. These six Excel hacks show how to do the job in a tenth of the time it would usually take. Shaun from ...

If you are working with a large dataset, knowing its standard deviation is handy as it will let you know the variability in the given dataset. You get to see the degree of asymmetry in your dataset ...