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By Sarah Lee


One cannot imagine even the smallest business operating in this day and age without the use of computers. Computers are used to simplify a myriad of tasks. They are word processors, they are used to communicate, to shop, to perform banking transactions and many other tasks that are part of any business. Of course, numbers and calculations are also an integral part of every business and with professional MS Excel consulting Sacramento companies can take full advantage of their data.

Spreadsheet programs have been around for a long time, at least as long as personal computers themselves. Many individuals and even businesses do not use them to there full potential, however. In many cases this is because people think that these programs are very difficult to master and that it requires superior mathematical abilities to cope with a spreadsheet program. This is not the case. In fact, everybody can benefit from using these programs.

Many people have found that their spreadsheet programs try to make things easy for them. These programs contain numerous templates that can be used for a very wide variety of purposes. They are ready made documents that already contain all the headings and formulae necessary to quickly create budgets, invoices, quotations and many other documents used by every business every day.

For many users, the templates supplied with their spreadsheet software are more than adequate to fulfil their needs. There are users, however, especially bigger businesses, that want to make use of their data in order view sets of data in different ways, to create complicated trend analysis and to provide statistics that can be used for strategic planning purposes. These more complicated needs are normally left in the hands of experienced consultants.

Spreadsheet consultants demand very high fees. This is because the need multiple skills in order to operate in this competitive field. Not only do they need to know and understand all the advanced features of the spreadsheet program, but they also need to be highly skilled in data manipulation techniques, statistics and even programming. In addition, they need to understand thee field within which their clients operate.

Many companies have no idea of just how many documents they have, electronically or otherwise, that can be of great value to them. Historical data can be used to build very sophisticated spreadsheet models and programs that can help decision makers to do their work from a solid base of valid information. Consultants are experts in consolidating data from various sources and to use that data to create solutions to important business questions.

Spreadsheet constants are generally highly professional, but they are not magicians. They can only produce the desired results if the data make available to them is complete and correct. Far too many companies never audit the data they so carefully store. A proper procedure whereby all incoming data is verified is therefore of paramount importance.

There is not one single field of endeavour where spreadsheet programs cannot be of great benefit. Even housewives can use them. Getting a consultant to help one make maximum use of the power of these programs is normally worth every penny.




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