The general ledger is a vast historical data archive of your company’s financial activities, including revenue, expenses, adjustments, account balances, and often much more. The detailed transactions ...

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Excel spreadsheets do so much, from making lists to crunching numbers to acting as sophisticated flat-file databases. We’re creating this guide to make sure you master all the essentials and more.