Shallow Foundation: How to clue my business in excel Part I

Click here for a better quality video: nerdenterprises.na6.acrobat.com QuickBooks Info: www.quickbooksnerd.com MS Excel Info www.msexcelguru.com Some of us have small businesses and cannot yet afford to go to the expense of purchasing and learning a program like QuickBooks. Especially if our background is in something non-financial (like the products or services we offer). In these cases we can use a spreadsheet to track our business. As with everything in life we have to consider what information we need and in general we want to keep these things as simple as possible. So in this weeks web cast we are going to look at tracking sales. In the next few weeks we will be building on this theme in short 10 minute web casts (so they can fit on YouTube . www.youtube.com for all of our tutorials on both QuickBooks and Excel. The simple answer on sales is setting up a template that provides a foundation that fosters consistency and simplicity. All too often we get caught up in the details and wind up creating something too complicated to maintain. The phrase keep it simple REALLY applies here. Then you can expand on it as you go thats the beauty of doing things in excel you are the developer so you create the things you need as you need them and you dont need to wait for the next release! Sometimes we like to make things more complicated to impress people and then it costs us. Thats right our vanity based on the desire to impress people with our excel skills will cost us dearly ...