Common math functions in Excel

Summary of common calculation functions in Excel for accountants.

1. ABS function

- Syntax: ABS (number).

+ Where number is a numerical value it can be a parameter, reference or valuable expression.

- Functional meaning: is the function that returns the absolute value of a number.

- Example: abs (-5) = 5; abs (5) = 5

2. Power function

- Syntax: power (number, power)

Inside:

+ Number is the real number.

+ Power is an exponential function (or is understood as a factor that is multiplied).

- Meaning of the function: A function that performs exponentiation.

- For example:

3. Product function

- Syntax: Product (number1, number2, .).

Inside:

+ Number 1 is the 1 factor.

+ Number 2 is the second factor . .

+ Contains up to 255 number arguments.

- Meaning: As a function of product of a sequence of numbers.

- For example:

4. Function Mod

- Syntax: Mod (number, divisor).

Inside:

+ Number: is the divisor.

+ Divisor: is the number to be divided.

+ If the divisor = 0 return value is False.

- The meaning of the function returns the remainder of the division (the signed balance of the dividend).

- For example:

5. Roundup function

- Meaning: is a rounding function for decimal numbers.

- Syntax: roundup (number, Num_digits).

Inside:

+ Number is the number you want to round.

+ Num_digist: is the range to be rounded up to a few digits. Based on num_digist will determine the rounding rule.

- For example:

+ round (2.45, 0) = 5

+ round (2.45, 1) = 2.5

+ round (2.45, -1) = 10

6. The Even function

- Syntax: Even (number).

+ Where number: is the number to be rounded.

- Meaning: A rounding function but rounded up to the nearest even integer.

- Example: even (4.45) = 6 (6 is the nearest even number of 4).

7. The odd function

- Syntax: Odd (number).

Where number is the number to be rounded.

- Meaning: A function to round but round up to the nearest odd integer.

- Example: odd (4.45) = 5 (5 is the nearest odd of 4).

8. Rounddown function

- Syntax: rounddown (number, digits).

A rounding function, but rounded down to 1 unit.

- Example: round (4.45,1) = 4.4

9. Sum function - Function sum

- Syntax: Sum (number1, number2, .).

+ Where number is the value to sum.

- For example:

10. Sumif function - Function for calculating conditional sum

- Syntax: Sumif (range, criteria, num_range).

Inside:

+ Range: range to determine conditions.

+ Criteria: conditions.

+ Num_range: value to sum.

- For example:

11. The Average function

- Syntax: average (number1, number2, .).

In which: number1, number2 are average numbers.

- For example:

12. Sumproduct

- Syntax: sumproduct (array1, array2, .).

Where: array1, array2 are arrays where:

+ The product of each array is included and then summed.

13. Ham Max

- Syntax: Max (number1, number2, .).

Where: number1, number2, . number n is the sequence to determine the maximum value.

- Meaning: The function finds the maximum value of a sequence of numbers.

- For example:

14. Ham Min

- Structure: Min (number1, number2, . .number n).

- Meaning: The function takes the smallest value in the sequence. Similar to the Max function.

15. Small function

- Syntax: Small (array, k).

Inside:

+ Array is an array of values.

+ K is the ordinal number of the element with the smallest value k.

- Meaning: The function returns the smallest k value in the sequence.

- For example:

16. Ham Count

- Syntax: Count (Value1, value2, . .).

Inside:

+ Value1, Value2 are values ​​in the range.

+ Value1, Value 2 are numeric.

- Meaning: Data counting function is numeric.

- For example:

17. Counta function - Counts all cells that contain data

- Syntax: Counta (Value1, value2, .).

18. The Countif function

- Syntax: Countif (range, criteria).

Inside:

+ Range: Data range of operation.

+ Criteria: Conditions for counting.

- Meaning: Using to count cells containing data under 1 condition.

- For example: