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Month End

Formula-Based Reports with SUMIFS in Excel

By Jeff Lenning | June 30, 2026 |

Pivot tables are great, but they do not always produce the exact report layout that corporate requires. When the format is locked in and a pivot table simply will not fit, we turn to formulas. In this tutorial, we walk through three exercises that show how to use the SUMIFS function to build formula-based reports…

Power Query, PivotTable, and Pivot Chart: A Month-End Workflow

By Jeff Lenning | June 23, 2026 |

Month-end reporting often means the same tasks, repeated every single month. We pull data from a CSV, clean it up, build a summary, and maybe add a chart. If we are doing all of that manually, we are leaving a lot of time on the table. In this tutorial, we cover a three-exercise workflow that…

How to Automatically Log QuickBooks Journal Entries into Excel Using Zapier

By Jeff Lenning | June 16, 2026 |

What if every new journal entry posted in QuickBooks Online landed in an Excel table automatically, no copy-paste required? In this tutorial we walk through exactly that workflow. We use Zapier to connect QuickBooks Online to an Excel workbook stored in OneDrive, loop through each journal entry line so it lands on its own row,…

Month-End Reconciliations with Power Query

By Jeff Lenning | June 9, 2026 |

Month-end reconciliations are a fact of life for anyone managing financial data. Whether we are comparing Shopify orders against QuickBooks invoices, matching a bank statement to a check register, or verifying inventory counts, the core task is always the same: take two lists and find what does not match. In this tutorial, we walk through…