A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work.

How to Use Excel to Calculate the ROI on a Product. "Return on investment" is a financial calculation used to gauge how well the money you invest earns you even more money.

The payback period is the amount of time needed to recover the initial outlay for an investment. Learn how to calculate it with Microsoft Excel.

How to calculate return on investment (ROI), the money an investment made relative to its cost, in Microsoft Excel.

How to Calculate Fluctuations in Excel. Calculating data fluctuations-- also called variance -- is a multi-step process that requires total accuracy. Excel 2010 provides two basic formulas for ...

Calculating the return One of the best methods for calculating an average return for a stock investment is the XIRR function in Excel.

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