Category Archives: How Excel is used at Work

School counts as work right?

But other than that I have never really had too much interaction with excel except for being taught the basics and using it to solve math problems for a business course and math course. It was explained that it was a program to help many financial firms and such to help balance and maintain numbers such as salary, expenses, and revenue. I’m sure with this class we’ll all be proficient in some form in excel soon.

Ga Ho Lin

I use Excel nearly every day in my work.  I manage both the Metrocard and 401K programs at my office.  I keep spreadsheets to track the weekly payroll deductions for both so that I can double check our 401K company’s numbers and so I can monitor the amount outstanding for each employee’s Metrocard.  I also export information from our accounting program into Excel so that I can run quarterly Gross Profit statements and income statements.  Many of my workbooks have multiple worksheets in them where I have formulas pulling totals from one sheet to another so that I can have running totals throughout a year or over multiple years.  Most of the information that I keep would be incredibly difficult to handle if it wasn’t for Excel.

Joe Frasca

As I know, every company is using Excel at work.  This is not because it is a form of doing your work, it is just because it makes your works easier. I’m working in a dental clinic, and I also need to use Excel to finalize the patients in a day.  I have to make a dailysheet by making a chart, entering the patients names, and sort out the order by “money”, “insurance company”, and “name”.  There is one thing that I like the most is Excel can calculate the total amount for me, especially I’m bad at math.  All I need to do is press a button, then the result comes out.

This is why I like Excel, and I do want to learn more about Excel in this class.

JingXin Li

Before I became an american student I did not know how to use a computer at all. When I started to learn  computer applications in the two year college Excel immediately became my famouse. At my previous job I used Excel a lot , for instance, to create income-expense reports, to export data from QuickBook, to keep payroll records for company, to complete nessesary paperworks for different type of audits, even I used Excel instead of Word to create a letters with tables and charts. I think this is the best application for accounting, math, and engeneering.

Zhanna Rosseychuk.

Thus far I have had very little experience using excel. I recall using excel to create a few graphs/charts for a physics class but that’s about as far as my familiarity with the program goes. I’m eager to get a good grasp on how to use excel because I am well aware that it’s becoming more and more of a requirement in today’s work world. I read all the blog posts before mine and I see that it is being used in such a wide variety of ways from computing complicated functions to analyzing sales information to storing customer data. I discovered that another interesting way that people are using excel is for event planning. It serves as a tool to manage the budget, organize the guest list, and keep a calendar. I knew there was a lot that could be done with excel but I never realized how it could simplify so many day to day tasks. I have a feeling that once I am comfortable using it, I will be using it often.

-Natalia Varghese

The need for excel is very important to many of us today, not only in business but so many others fields. At work, some people use MS Excel to save time. Spreadsheets help save the user a significant amount of time because everything is typed and automated. Some may use MS Excel for listing bills, tracking income and expenditures. It is also used for financial goals and tracking inventory going out and coming in. Businesses will use Excel for Income statements, cash flow statement and Balance sheet.

Nooreen Ramdut
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My experiences in working with excel was really interesting. About two years ago, I learned how to use Excel at work. I always wanted to learn because knowing how to create excel spreadsheets is a “must” when working in the corporate sector. When I first started working in an accounting firm, I had just graduated out of high school and the first thing my boss asked me was, “Do you know how to use Excel?” I replied, “No.”

I was so fortunate that I had a great boss who ran through the fundamentals of using excel. After that, I literally learned how to use excel by constantly using it. Its funny because now my boss thinks I am in love with that program. I kind of am though because I am very organized and Excel is a program that keeps all your data organized. At work, I am usually calculating sales and expenses of corporations. I create databases for many companies. I learned how to plug in formulas, something I was very unfamiliar with before. However, I am very eager in taking this class because I really want to become even more proficient in using excel because I believe there is so much to learn in any new program. By: Fahima Salina

It has beena long time since I have used excel at the work place and even then it was very basic. I worked as deta entry of forclosure company, so my usage of excel was limited to creating spreadsheet.I personally using excel in my daily life to keep track my family’s expenses, and keeping contact information. It is very interesting to read the post of other students, and understand the vast usage of excel.

Now that I am looking for a job it seems that excel is a very important part of the work place. I am eager to learn how to use excel in depth.

Hava Adziashvili

“Microsoft Excel is known for  its spreadsheet capabilities. However, Excel is capable of more than simply  accounting functions. Excel can also help users with statistical, engineering  and higher math calculations. The software can also use that information to  create charts and graphs that can make analysis more effective.”

“Excel can hold and manage large amounts of data; at least 65,000 rows. Cells can  be formatted and highlighted to show results that are outside of the stated  targets. Users can adjust the data to find out what happens to the final result  if input factors are changed. What-if analysis is used to test various scenarios  to reach the desired goals.”

Read more:  What Are the Uses of Microsoft Excel? | eHow.com

http://www.ehow.com/info_8171011_uses-microsoft-excel.html#ixzz25AmLer93

-Phil Loprete

Here is my experience in Excel. I have worked in a restaurant before, and I know that their cashier system is a form of excel. The systems could keep track on how the restaurant earns daily and even could keep track if any things have been damage or lost daily. The system could also keep track on what food people had ordered.This system could be great if we could set up in our home and keep track on our grocery.

As far as I know Excel is a very useful tools in the real life. Professor use excel to take attendance and forming presentations in class. Excel is easy to use and keep tack things daily.

Accountant and Entrepreneur use excel to keep track on their sales and budget. Excel could help them to analyze important data and preset formula to work out complicated balance sheet.

Students use Excel to do their homework and also analyze data on Excel.