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Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software.

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When I started my career as an engineer, personal computers were a luxury. When our department finally got one, we had to share, and coordinated our schedules so we could each use it for a few hours a ...

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A reader asked what program I’d recommend for creating a “database” of her CD collection that could be broken down by song title, artist, genre, performance date, etc. A “database” is a “table” of ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

There was a time when spreadsheets ruled the world. It seemed as if there was nothing a sharp Excel spreadsheet and some targeted functions couldn’t accomplish. Those days are gone now. Excel may ...