Simon Hurst
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Simon Hurst is the founder of technology training consultancy The Knowledge Base and is a past chairman of the ICAEW's IT Faculty.
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11th Feb 2016
Excel 2016: Create instant forecasts with the new Forecast Sheet feature
Simon Hurst has a quick look at Excel’s existing forecasting capabilities before looking in detail at what the new Forecast Sheet feature,...
Management accounting
10th Dec 2015
ModelOff 2015: Proud to be a spreadsheet geek
Simon Hurst reports from the ModelOff spreadsheet competition and award ceremony. The event demonstrated just how important spreadsheets...
Excel
11th Nov 2015
Excel 2016: Get & Transform
By some strange coincidence, at about the same time I was writing an overview of the Excel 2016 changes , a question was being posted to...
Excel
28th Oct 2015
Excel 2016: Initial impressions
Following a particularly extensive preview program, Office 2016 was officially released on 22nd September. Over the next few articles we...
Excel
8th Oct 2015
Give your reports more oomph 4: Interactivity
Simon Hurst concludes his series on ways to improve management reporting with a look at how to replace printed pages of figures with...
Management accounting
9th Sep 2015
Give your reports more oomph 3: Sparklines
Simon Hurst continues his series on ways to improve management reporting with a look at Sparklines. Introduction You are likely to have to...
Management accounting
12th Aug 2015
Give your reports more oomph 2: Conditional formats
Simon Hurst continues his series exploring ways to improve reporting with a look at conditional formatting. Introduction You are likely to...
Management accounting
16th Jul 2015
Give your reports more oomph 1: Number formats
In a return to spreadsheet design and presentation techniques, Simon Hurst begins his exploration of report formats with a look at...
Management accounting
18th Jun 2015
Excel Table superpowers and how to use them
Having concentrated on exposing Excel Table shortcomings last time, Simon Hurst redresses the balance with a look at some practical...
People
15th May 2015
Five flaws in Excel Tables - and how to fix them
As we have discussed several times before on AccountingWEB, Excel Tables can be extremely useful and can help make your workbooks more...
Excel