Too many financial decisions are made without factoring in the time value of money. Whether providing financial planning advice related to a client’s retirement, advising a client about a business ...

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. The present value (PV) of a bond is the sum of ...

Highlight the lowest and highest value in an Excel row or column Your email has been sent Finding the lowest or highest value in an Excel row or column is simple using the MIN() and MAX() functions, ...

Isolating values in an Excel 2007/2010 worksheet or workbook is common in both error-checking and data analysis tasks. While appropriate even for a small worksheet, the functions that isolate a value ...

In Microsoft Excel, the well-known and widely used spreadsheet software, you can use letters to represent values. So, for instance, instead of subtracting 5 from 10, you can subtract x from y. This ...

How to use wildcards with the XLOOKUP() function in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible. Lookup functions are great ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Morsa Images / Getty Images In the fixed income market, each ...

When teaching financial accounting, faculty often discuss bonds payable and how to calculate the issue price of a bond. The next time you cover this topic, consider teaching students how to calculate ...

The TIMEVALUE function in Microsoft Excel is a Date and Time function, and its purpose is to convert a time in the form of text to a serial number. It is used to convert text representations of times ...