Excel

I have never really understood Excel or all of the tools that it provides, but my dad is the CFO at his company and swears by it so I thought I would ask him why he likes it so much. One thing that he loves about Excel, is that you are able to put formulas in to spreadsheets so that you do not have to do all of the calculation. One of the things that he has to do is do business projections. So he enters formulas into a spreadsheet and by hitting enter, he can build a 3, 5 or even 10 year projection of growth. By talking to him, I gained a desire to learn Excel better because I believe that it can be a huge help.