If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

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When calculating a declining sales figure spanning multiple years, you need to calculate two percentages. The straight-line method calculates your overall decline, but this doesn't paint the entire ...

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