Archive for the 'Finance / accounting' Category

Digital and executive dashboards

No it’s not another set of buzzwords! Dashboards are everywhere, from small and medium business to multinational companies these tools are a must have for executives and managers.
Here is a definition of dashboards from the dashboard spy “it is basically a way for business users to get an at-a-glance understanding of metrics of importance to […]

How to calculate compund interests using excel or google spreadsheet

Today i’ve decided to play around with google docs, and more specificaly google spreadsheets.
The aim of the exercice was to make a tool to calculate compound interests, and here is the result:
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Unfortunately you can’t edit the numbers directly on the webpage (it would be a nice feature) as it’s a display only (we could use […]

Things to remember on Financial Statements, reading notes from “The portable MBA in Finance and Accounting”

• Assets = Liabilities + Owner Equity
• Asset is the money you spend in order to operate the business

• Balance sheet represents the financial position of a company at a specific moment in time
• The balance sheet must always keep its equilibrium
• […]