If you're starting to shop around for student loans, you may want a general picture of how much you're going to pay. If you're refinancing existing debt, you may want a tool to compare your options ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax ...

Microsoft Excel allows you to either create a spreadsheet from scratch with your own formulas or use a premade template provided by Microsoft. Microsoft has provided a template for loan amortization ...

In Excel a "Vlookup," short for vertical lookup, is a formula used to return a value from a table of data. For example, you might want to add a column to a customer information spreadsheet that tells ...

Ever feel like you’re spending more time wrestling with Excel than actually analyzing your data? For accounting and finance professionals, the pressure to deliver accurate, insightful reports—often ...