Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

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Have you ever found yourself endlessly clicking through repetitive steps in Excel, wishing there was a way to make the process smarter and faster? While Power Query is a fantastic option for ...