At the end of the month, you open multiple Excel files, copy sales data, sum it up by department, and compare it with last ...

Good instincts for numbers only get a business analyst so far. The right tools are what turn a pile of raw data into reports people can use. Sales figures, cust ...

The two worlds of Excel and Python are colliding thanks to Microsoft’s new integration to boost data analysis and visualizations. The two worlds of Excel and Python are colliding thanks to Microsoft’s ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Sometimes the current Microsoft Excel data structure doesn’t match requirements of other users and software. Learn how to combine columnar values into a single cell using Microsoft Excel’s Power Query ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query’s extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add Power Query to this already powerful mix, and you get an even more ...