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If you pay employees an hourly wage and use time cards to track their weekly work time, you can use Microsoft Excel to calculate work totals, simplifying your payroll preparation. Especially when you ...

Excel makes quick work of tracking time. With the right formatting, formula and dependent time values, you can return the hours worked for a given day, week, month and so on. If all you’re doing is ...

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 ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...

Q. I have prepared projections for a proposed project, and I want to calculate the internal rate of return. Instead of using Excel’s IRR function, should I use simple math formulas so others can ...

If you have a recent pay stub, you can use Microsoft Excel to calculate your annual salary, as well as estimate how much a raise will affect your paychecks. Here are the steps to calculate yours. How ...

When it comes to Microsoft Excel, most of us use the same handful of functions like SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, and other generic ones, and end up doing a ton of manual work. But what if there was a better ...