Adding VLookup as a Control for Your Month-End Workpapers
VLOOKUP As a CONTROL When closing for the month, many use an Excel workbook to reconcile balances to the general ledger. As the general ledger changes, do you have a process in place to easily determine that balances previously reconciled still tie to the general...
Using TextJoin
TextJoin() TEXTJOIN is a text function that was introduced in Excel 2016 to join text in cells together. Initially, you may think that the function is not that worthwhile. After all, we already have the ampersand (& ) as well as...
SUBTOTAL() and AGGREGATE() -TimeSavers
Many people are only aware of the Subtotal icon and have never looked at the Subtotal function itself. After all, the icon, lets you add, average and count a list so who needs more? Well if you are one of the people who subtotal data a lot then you may want to look at...
Using TRUNC()
This is an excerpt from our Excel CPE course – Must Know Excel tips Tricks and Tools for CPAs. TRUNC() No Decimals If you don’t want the pennies in your calculation you can use =TRUNC(), short for TRUNCATE, or =INT(), short for INTEGER, to turn your data into...