Stephen L Nelson, CPA, State of Washington. 1981. Best-selling author of QuickBooks for Dummies (over 400,000 copies sold), of Quicken for Dummies (over 1,000,000 copies sold), and numerous other books about small business accounting, finance, project management, and technology.

When you first start building Excel formulas, the formula construction process can seem way too complicated. But understanding a few simple rules makes the process easier than you might think says bes...

Excel provides several add-in functions that let you make yield calculations forsecurities such as bonds more easily. The functions can be challenging to use, however, explains the CPA author of the M...

Microsoft Excel provides four add-in functions that allow people to make sophisticated interest rate calculations. The functions can be tricky to use, however, explains the author of the MBA's Guide t...

Microsoft Excel provides two special future value functions that most people never use. These two functions, FVSCHEDULE and RECEIVED, provide quick insights when performing investment analysis.

Making French depreciation calculations? Microsoft Excel can help. Excel supplies two add-in functions specifically for making these calculations.

Need to work with chi square distributions? Don't forget that Microsoft Excel supplies powerful tools for performing just this sort of statistical analysis.

Need to work with binomial probability distributions? Don't forget that Microsoft Excel supplies powerful tools for performing just this sort of statistical analysis.

Need to make Beta Probability calculations? Microsoft Excel supplies two useful statistical functions for making just these sorts of calculations, BETADIST and BETAINV.

Need to calculate statistical averages? Microsoft Excel supplies several easy-to-use statistical functions for just such a purpose says bestselling computer book author Stephen L. Nelson

Need to find the largest or the smallest value in an Excel worksheet? Microsoft Excel supplies several easy-to-use functions for just such a purpose says bestselling computer book author Stephen L. Ne...

Need to hypergeometric distribution calculations? Microsoft Excel supplies a statistical functions for just such a purpose says bestselling computer book author Stephen L. Nelson

Need to count the cells in a worksheet range that contain data averages? Microsoft Excel supplies several easy-to-use functions for just such a purpose says bestselling computer book author Stephen L....

Microsoft Excel supplies several easy-to-use statistical functions for just such a purpose says bestselling computer book author Stephen L. Nelson

Trying to make sense of Microsoft Excel's statistical analysis tools? Make sure you understand the statistical terms Excel uses, says bestselling computer book author Stephen L. Nelson. Such an unders...