EXCEL

FUNCTIONS
8 SLIDES

PREPARED BY:
CHRISTIAN C. PACABIS
 The use of IT Tools or software in
accounting contributes an imperative
role in making financial reports. This
allows accounting department to
utilize their time efficiently reducing
errors regarding bookkeeping and
human calculations achieving
accuracy and speed in the workplace.
 Basing on the matters that has
been discussed in the subject, I
gained knowledge with regards to
some of functions in Microsoft Excel
utilized for accounting purposes.
AVERAGE
MINIMUM
SUM
MAXIMUM
CONCATENATE
EXACT
INTEGER COUNT
ROUND COUNTA
 AVERAGE
AVERAGE function returns the average
(arithmetic mean) of the numbers
provided. It is the TOTAL AMOUNT
DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF ITEMS
INVOLVE. This is categorized as a
Statistical Function.
 MINIMUM

MIN function returns the SMALLEST VALUE

from the numbers provided. This is
categorized as a Statistical Function.
 SUM

SUM function ADDS ALL NUMBERS in a range

of cells and RETURNS THE RESULT. This is
categorized as a Math/Trig function.
 MAXIMUM
MAX function returns the largest
value from numbers provided. This is
categorized as a Statistical Function.
 CONCATENATE
Concatenate is just another way of
saying “TO COMBINE” or “TO JOIN”.
Concatenate function allows you to
COMBINE text from DIFFERENT CELLS
into ONE CELL.
 EXACT

This function COMPARES two

strings and returns TRUE if both
values are
The Excelthe SAME.
INT function Otherwise
returns the integer part it
of a decimal number by rounding down to the
will return
integer.FALSE.
Note the INT function rounds down, so
negative numbers become more negative.
 ROUND
The Excel ROUND function returns a number
rounded to a given number of digits. The ROUND
function can round to the right or left of the
decimal point.
 INTEGER
The Excel INT function returns the integer
part of a decimal number by rounding down
to the integer. Note the INT function rounds
down, so negative numbers become more
negative.
 COUNT
Use the COUNT function to get
the number of entries in a number
field that is in a range or array of
numbers. 
 COUNTA
Excel COUNTA Function. The Excel
COUNTA function returns the count of cells
that contain numbers, text, logical values,
error values, and empty text (""). COUNTA
does not COUNT empty cells.