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Microsoft Excel

WHAT IS MICROSOFT EXCEL?

Microsoft Excel It's a program for data analysis. It's based on a spreadsheet, which contains a series of columns and rows, where each intersection of a column and a row is a "cell." Each cell contains a data point or a piece of information. By organizing information in this way, we can make it easier to find and extract automatically. It's a simple and easy-to-understand way to manage data.

This program, created by Microsoft, uses formulas and functions to work with numbers and data, making Excel widely used by companies of all sizes worldwide for financial analysis.

In the early days of business computing, Excel played a vital role in accounting and data maintenance for business operations. One of the best examples is the use of Excel in an autosum table.

The main uses of Excel include data entry, data management, accounting, financial analysis, scheduling, time management, task management, financial modeling, and customer relationship management (CRM). Basically, any task that requires organizing data.

This is how we can use Excel

Excel includes many functions, formulas, and shortcuts that can be used to enhance its functionality and data analysis.

For example, Excel is widely used in financial and accounting functions. While Excel is defined as a "data" management tool, the data most frequently managed is financial.

In fact, many organizations perform all their budgeting, forecasting, and accounting functions entirely using Excel spreadsheets.

Excel's greatest strength lies in its robustness and openness, making Excel models as powerful as the analyst needs them to be. Accountants, bankers, analysts, and people in all kinds of financial careers rely on Excel to perform their daily work tasks.

However, many people seek to learn how to use Excel to manage the data they use in one way or another, regardless of their profession. We all have daily expenses that we pay for with our monthly income. To spend wisely, one needs to know their income and expenses. Microsoft Excel is useful when we want to record, analyze, and store such numerical data, so anyone might want to learn how to use Excel efficiently.

Excel can be purchased from a store, although it is also part of the Microsoft Office suite. It can also be downloaded from the Microsoft website.

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