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	<title>Experiments in Finance &#187; Corporate finance</title>
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	<description>Because you shouldn&#039;t need an MBA to be savvy about finance and business</description>
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		<title>Metrics, metrics everywhere but where they should be</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2010/02/15/metrics-metrics-everywhere-but-where-they-should-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being a finance blog, I recently came across an article in Businessweek about the dangers of overmeasuring that I thought was worth sharing. It&#8217;s pretty simple but drives the point home. I&#8217;ve worked in technology companies most of my career and they all claim to be data-driven. Few really are, and what&#8217;s worse, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most common career mistake most young employees make</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/09/25/the-most-common-career-mistake-most-young-employees-make/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/09/25/the-most-common-career-mistake-most-young-employees-make/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in a series called &#8220;Managing your career &#8211; an introductory series&#8220;. The main audience I have in mind are analyst-level employees in corporate finance, but I think many parts can be applied more generally to anyone working in US corporations these days. I work with a lot of people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing your career &#8211; an introductory series</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/09/04/managing-your-career-an-introductory-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/09/04/managing-your-career-an-introductory-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank god the long weekend is here. There have been a lot of changes at my work in recent months. Reorgs seem to beget reorgs, and my finance team this week found itself in the midst of an unexpected leadership change in the group we support. Although sudden and unexpected job changes reinforce the need, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New! Excel and finance consultations for small businesses</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/03/15/new-excel-and-finance-consultations-for-small-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/03/15/new-excel-and-finance-consultations-for-small-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business & entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to soft-launch a side business offering Excel and finance for small businesses. After receiving regular requests from small business owners for help and being encouraged by them to give it a try, I finally figured, &#8220;Why not?&#8221; The type of consultations I&#8217;ve provided so far have varied from how to use functions like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended reading: a simplified explanation of the current financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/11/16/recommended-reading-a-simplified-explanation-of-the-current-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/11/16/recommended-reading-a-simplified-explanation-of-the-current-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you still don&#8217;t know how the current financial crisis happened, there&#8217;s an excellent explanation making email rounds in a few Latin countries. Unfortunately, it seems it&#8217;s available only in Spanish. It&#8217;s such a good piece, though, that I&#8217;m offering a basic English translation below. (Edit (11/19/2008): The translation is of the version I received. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating CAGR (compound annual growth rate) when the beginning value is negative</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/09/15/calculating-cagr-compound-annual-growth-rate-when-the-beginning-value-is-negative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I regularly receive emails from readers posing questions based on my previous posts on things like how to calculate NPV, using XIRR, and other financial and Excel questions. One of the most common questions I receive is how to calculate a compound annual growth rate when the beginning value is negative. The basic answer is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reader question: calculating a basic NPV problem</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/05/30/reader-question-calculating-a-basic-npv-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/05/30/reader-question-calculating-a-basic-npv-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 15:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBA topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My philosophy on maintaining this blog site is very different from that of most bloggers. Rather than update it constantly with the latest happenings, I aim to write longer how-to explanations and tutorials that are less time-sensitive and provide useful reference material long after they&#8217;re written. Though my posting rate has declined dramatically recently (this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>And now for the big news&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/01/11/and-now-for-the-big-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/01/11/and-now-for-the-big-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welp, all those interview rounds I&#8217;ve had the past several weeks paid off in the end, and I received and accepted a very nice job offer with a new company this week! I&#8217;m pretty excited and will start in just a little over a week&#8217;s time. Not to worry, my new position is still in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BonaVista Microcharts: a very cool Excel charts add-in</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/01/10/bonavista-microcharts-a-very-cool-excel-charts-add-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/01/10/bonavista-microcharts-a-very-cool-excel-charts-add-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the side perks of running this site is that I occasionally get invited to review products and services. Since I suppose I write so much about using Excel, the creator of BonaVista MicroCharts contacted me in December about his Excel add-in, and from Germany, no less! In the interest of full disclosure, I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Using Excel&#8217;s conditional formatting: changing colors and fonts to highlight data</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/12/using-excels-conditional-formatting-changing-colors-and-fonts-to-highlight-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/12/using-excels-conditional-formatting-changing-colors-and-fonts-to-highlight-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel spreadsheets (.xls)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to show one other thing helpful thing that Excel can do when you need to highlight data called conditional formatting. (Note: this tutorial is image heavy!) Conditional formatting basically allows you to use colors, font styles, and borders to highlight cells that meet certain conditions. Unlike IF and other Excel functions, conditional formatting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use nested IF statements in Excel with AND, OR, NOT</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/11/how-to-use-nested-if-statements-in-excel-with-and-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/11/how-to-use-nested-if-statements-in-excel-with-and-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on last week&#8217;s introductory post on using the IF function, here&#8217;s one on how to use Excel&#8217;s IF statement when you have multiple conditions to meet. The original question I received from a reader, which prompted this series, was about how to use the IF statement in Excel when you had two conditions [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>588</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use the IF function in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/05/how-to-use-the-if-function-in-excel-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/05/how-to-use-the-if-function-in-excel-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I received a question from a reader asking how to use the IF function in Excel for a particular scenario he needed to do at work. I thought other people might benefit from having a short tutorial on this, so I&#8217;m providing it here, divided into a few parts. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Using the Goal Seek function in Excel: a brief tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/11/27/using-the-goal-seek-function-in-excel-a-brief-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/11/27/using-the-goal-seek-function-in-excel-a-brief-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goal Seek is a really useful and easy function to use in Excel, but a surprising number of people aren&#8217;t aware of it. If you&#8217;re a regular spreadsheet user and have ever run into a situation where you wanted to figure out what number to &#8220;back into&#8221; to get a result you want, or you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use XIRR in Excel to calculate annualized returns</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/10/17/how-to-use-xirr-in-excel-to-calculate-annualized-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/10/17/how-to-use-xirr-in-excel-to-calculate-annualized-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve previously created a spreadsheet for calculating compound annual growth rates (CAGR) as well as an online CAGR calculator, but these aren&#8217;t always the tools you need when trying to calculate your returns. In fact, the two CAGR tools I created really only work when you have one initial amount and one final amount, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>A rough financial analysis of Zecco</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/09/25/a-rough-financial-analysis-of-zecco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/09/25/a-rough-financial-analysis-of-zecco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business & entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zecco has gotten a lot of press lately, both good and bad. If you haven&#8217;t yet heard of it, it&#8217;s a site that was launched in July and currently in beta whose business model aims to &#8220;revolutionize&#8221; the financial services arena by offering free trades and offering previously unavailable investing information and opinion all in [...]]]></description>
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