Managing personal finances effectively requires a combination of precision, foresight, and smart planning. Microsoft Excel offers a robust suite of tools, particularly under its “What-If Analysis” ...

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Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Stop guessing! Susan Harkins shows you how to use Excel's Goal Seek what-if analysis tool to achieve your goals. If you ask me, Excel’s what-if analysis tools are under-used. I often respond to ...

Tracking and analyzing your investments can be a complicated and time-consuming task. Between expense ratios, dividend yields, management fees, tax planning, and asset allocation, there can be a lot ...

Excel's Focus Cell feature is one of the program's simplest yet most useful additions in recent years. It highlights the row ...

Decision support systems have been around since the early days of business computing, helping users extract valuable information from large amounts of data. Business intelligence is just the latest ...

The Risk Stress Test (RiST) tool is an Excel-based tool developed to help conduct the stress testing analysis described in the methodological note Integrating Climate Change and Natural Disasters in ...