Presenting financial figures with Excel: Part 1 - an introduction

The theme of this ExcelZone tutorial series by Simon Hurst on Excel financial reports is, "Could do better."

So much effort goes into Excel: acquiring the data in the first place, working out and performing all the calculations, making sure everything is correct. It seems a shame if all this good work goes to waste because the end result - the presentation of the key information that a spreadsheet reveals - isn't as good as it could be.