How to Use Microsoft Excel for Accounting. Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It ...

The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number. But the accounting format has a few differences that ...

Move Your Accounting Data into Excel Of course, your business data probably exists in your accounting software or your other small business software, so before you begin you need to get it into Excel.

Find out how to perform financial analysis through Microsoft Excel, a widely used business management software among finance professionals and investors.

Reviewed by Charlene Rhinehart Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Businesses depreciate long-term assets for both tax and accounting purposes. For tax purposes, businesses can deduct the cost of the ...

The accounting industry is comprised of a number of colossuses, many mid-tier firms, and thousands of small firms. In a bustling economy – think pre-2008 – most smaller firms were able to do ...

Several basic templates are available for Microsoft Excel that make it simple to calculate production costs.