One of the business world's main tools is Microsoft Excel. But many businesses simply do not utilise Excel's capabilities. Either a spreadsheet is built in-house and ends up being inefficient, difficult to navigate around, or it just doesn't really achieve the desired objective.
If you walk through the finance or accounting department at any office, you will likely see computer screens filled with Excel spreadsheets outlining financial results, budgets, forecasts, and plans used to make various business decisions. This is the area of business with the biggest reliance on, and benefit from, Excel spreadsheets. Advanced formulas in Excel can turn manual processes that took weeks to complete in the 1980s into something that takes only a few minutes today.
Most users know that Excel can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but it can do so much more when using the vast array of functions, formulae and tools. Given that businesses need to move fast, it stands to reason that the tools a business uses must work fast too. This is especially true for Excel. In order to ensure efficiencies, a programming tool called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is used. When in operation, all that's required by the user is a couple of keystrokes, or a click of the mouse button to run the process(es), and results, reports, etc. are available within a matter of seconds, saving the business valuable time.
Our aim is to help you make better use of Excel, whether to create something new or to update or improve a spreadsheet that you already use.