Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It comes with basic spreadsheet functionality and ...

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Businesses often use Excel, a Microsoft spreadsheet application often installed by default as part of the Microsoft Office suite on business computers. Excel workbooks contain individual worksheets, ...