Being in the topmost ladder of the evolutionary ladder, us, humans love devices and gadgets that will help decrease our labor problems. Since the birth of the computers,
business and personal users celebrated their liberty from unending accounting tasks using handheld their sickening calculators. Computer wizards introduced them to spreadsheet softwares. Now, the tool became a daily necessity for every business enterprise.
A spreadsheet, either electronic or computerized is simply a tool that systematizes data transactions used in a business. In rows and columns, it shows for instance the business' gross and net income, assets, and liabilities. It was considered as best friends of accountants and various businessmen that helps them figure out their financial statement and lessen the burden in their
accounting job.
Bob Frankston and Daniel Bricklin are the people whom we owe our gratitude for they are behind the pioneer spreadsheet program called Visicalc (short for visible calculator) introduced in 1978. After Visicalc is Lotus 123 by the Lotus Development Corporation. The spreadsheet from Lotus is considered as among the world's best selling software packages. Following the worldwide fame of the two software came
Microsoft Excel, the first to have drag down menus plus an explicit interface and is still widely used by most accountants until now. Sooner than we think, other computer companies might as well launch their own version of spreadsheets with the most highly defined features.
Office software became the hottest commodity in town ever since computers were introduced to the public. Word processing is as easy as peeling a banana with applications like Microsoft Word, Zoho Writer, and Writely. Meanwhile, accounting task is never co
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